Update: Significant Objects/Slate story contest

Earlier this month, when we announced that Slate was hosting a fiction contest to select one of the 100 stories we'd publish as part of the Significant Objects project, we figured that it would only take a couple of days to read through the entries and pick a winner. Because the contest's deadline was last Friday (Oct. 16), we announced that Slate (and we) would publish the winning story today.

No such luck, I'm afraid. Why? Because Slate received a staggering 600+ entries! That's right: over ...