Feeling lucky? Want $5,000?

The Nelson Algren Awards for short fiction are open for just 3 more days. Run by the Chicago Tribune, the top prize is a luscious $5,000 — quite a purse for a previously unpublished story. Runners-up get “only” $1,500. They want 2,500-8,000 words, and they want it by mail, and they want it postmarked by Thursday. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.