Inspiration gave Jeff Carlson his idea for his winning story, The Frozen Sky, in upcoming WOTF Volume XXIII.

"In this case, the notion was born on my honeymoon! We were in Austria at "Giant Ice World - a massive network of caverns in Austria. Fifty miles deep! It is an ancient subterranean rive bed, and the catacombs are swollen with hills, pillars, standing waves and blobs of ice. I knew before we'd gone ten steps that I would write about it."