Small Town Girls

[first lines]

The Magazine Editor:
[on the phone/intercom] Heather, would you please call Charles in our London office... Yes, and show the finalists in after the call... Right. Thank you.

[last lines]

The Magazine Editor:
I thought you'd enjoy that surprise, and now I have a second surprise for you. After reading the manuscripts, all four of which were excellent by the way, and then cross-checking them with the evaluations of your new found friends, I decided that it would be unfair to make just one person the winner. So I've decided to do the only fair thing I could think of. Each of you will have her story published in my magazine, and be the centerfold for that month, and each of you will receive fifty thousand dollars cash as prize money.