3rd Place: Tess is her Name

​Michail Mulvey is a retired educator who taught for over four decades, at all levels, from kindergarten to college. He holds an MFA in creative writing, and has had short stories published in literary magazines and journals such as Johnny America, Poydras, Prole, The Front Porch Review, The Summerset Review, The Umbrella Factory, Drunk Monkeys, Crack the Spine, Literary Orphans, and War, Literature and the Arts.” In 2013 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.