Our December web exclusive, "Signs" by Bess Winter, is the winner of ASF's 2011 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. You can read the story below, and it is also featured in the Fall 2011 issue of the magazine. Learn more about "Signs" in our interview with Bess Winter on the ASF blog. 

Bess Winter's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Gargoyle, Berkeley Fiction Review, PANK, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University. She’s currently finishing a collection and blasting away at something longer. Sometimes she lives in the U.S., and sometimes she lives in Canada, but she can always be found at besswinter.wordpress.com.