Momaya Annual Review 2013

Music is the theme for the Momaya Annual Review 2013. The theme for our 10th year elicited the strongest set of stories we have ever received, resulting in the largest collection of short stories we have ever published. Perhaps this is because we all can relate to music. Music is played at all significant events in our lives - both happy and sad. Just hearing a particular tune can set a mood for times to come or bring back memories of good and bad times past. Music is democratic: we all love (some) music. Music is divisive: we all have our own particular tastes. We all have an opinion and a reaction to music. The stories you will read in this edition are some of the finest short stories written in 2013, anywhere in the world. In the First Place story "Lily's Music," a deaf girl's enjoyment of music (through sensing the vibrations) elicits the attention of a dangerous man. The excitement of the golden era of Jazz in Harlem is captured in "The Open Door," which placed second. The Third Place "The Place That Will Keep Us" tells the story of a guitar player's son and daughter who are on the run and running out of options.