
2nd Place: Hands by Frank Dullaghan
3rd Place: A Kindness Bestowed by Lynne Burnett
Honorable Mentions:
Hospital Sounds by Joyce Schmid
Heroics by Maryanne Hannan
Editor's Appreciation:
Don’t be sad, Chrysostom by Dmitry Blizniuk
(translated from Russian by Sergey Gerasimov)
Kisses Not Snow by Judith Ellen Sanders * Indian Blanket Toss by Marilyn Sequoia *Grace by Karen Haskell
Grocery Boy by Lynne Burnett- Missing You by Eva Schlesinger
Tenderly by Christina Sng - Kindness by Design by Brandon Marlon * Forgiveness - Eileen Mattmann
bird banding - Bill Sullivan * Invitation to a Kindness Conspiracy by Wilda Morris
Journey by J V Birch * Daydreaming by Soo Young Yun
Her Telephone Call by Carl "Papa" Palmer * Comfort Dog by Deidra Greenleaf Allan
The Nurse on the Bus by Wilda Morris * Kindness: A Haiku Cycle by SuzAnne Cole
Flash-Flood by Martin Willits, Jr.
A Random Act, A Most Welcome Gift - Nina Sudhakar * A World I Would Love - Ashley Phimphanh
Be Kind to One Another - Patricia McAlpine * Ron Yazinski - Chua Bo An * Claws and Wings - Clint King
Dancer - Mary Wehner* Dealing with the World - Lawrence J. Krips* Emily's Message - Laurie Kolp
Grateful - Mark Danowsky * Harriet - James Penha * If Kindness were a Shoe - Nancy Jasper
If Life is a Country Road - Austin Davis * Jerome Gagnon - Meeting in the Field
Julia Meylor Simpson - A blessed long life in a small town * Kindness - David Miller
Kindness - Do Not Devalue Anyone- Lilly White * Kindness, did you say? - Juliana Anderson
Lenore at Last - Julie Wenglinski * more light than dark - Linda M. Crate *Number 2 Bus - David Olsen
Other - Wayne-Daniel Berard * Pillows - Mary K. O'Melveny * Raw Absolutes - Matthew James Friday
Running Log Entry - Dennis Trujillo * Second String Roses - Barbara Boothe Loyd
Self-Acceptance - m.nicole. r.wildhood * Somewhere on Earth - Wasan Qasim
The Everyday Stuff - Sam Barbee * The Farmer’s Steady Hands - Peg Quinn
The Jehovah’s Lady - Janis Haag * The Karma of Kindness - Helen Burke * To Spice: - Mary Wlodarski
The Kindness of Strangers - Bill Carpenter * The Nice Man - Mary S. Taylor * Tuyo - Kate O’Kula
Universal Order, Alicia Cole * Visits with Florence - Carol DeCanio
Why he’d keep the fish alive - Armin Tolentino
The Editors