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Show us you can write your way out of a paper bag before Monday, Nov. 19. Now in its 17th year, the Boise Weekly Fiction 101 contest is in an awkward place. If it were a person, it would be old enough to drive, but it wouldnt be old enough to have voted in the midterm electionswhich is a shame, as we here at the Weekly are almost as interested in how a sentient literary contest might have cast its ballot as what the scribbling public will have to say in their entries this year. In the past, writers from Boise and beyond have submitted stories about love and loss, murder, their cats, veteran homecomings, growing old and nature. Theyve addressed politics and their deepest secrets. Often, the entries were laugh-out-loud funny, like stories about the legendary tan daddy, grandparents keeping the flame alive through S&M, and what goes on at band practice that stays at band practice. Entries for this years contest are due on Monday, Nov. 19. If you havent submitted yours by now, dont panic: The rules are simple. Entries must be 101 words long, typed in Microsoft Word and emailed to us at fiction101boiseweekly.com in the form of attachments. Accompanying each entry should be a $10 entry fee use our portal, payment.boiseweekly.com, with the titles of your story/stories in the Notes section. For people who prefer to pay by check, send payment to: Boise Weekly/Fiction 101 523 Broad St. Boise, ID 83702 Winning entries will be selected by our panel of expert judges and published in the Wednesday, Jan. 2, edition of Boise Weekly. Winning authors will get cash prizes and be invited to read at our annual Boise Weekly Fiction 101 party hosted by Rediscovered Books.

Arizona finally has a winner in its U.S. Senate race unlike Florida and Georgia, the American Heart Association is out with new cholesterol guidelines, the infamous thru-turn will be unveiled tonight on State Street and take a look at the teaser trailer for Toy Story 4. NPR reports that Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat and former social worker, has been declared the winner in an extremely tight Senate race in Arizona, a state that has long been a Republican bastion.Meanwhile, a federal judge in Georgia has ordered a delay in the certification of that states election results, and in Florida, razor-thin margins in races for Governor and the U.S. Senate have triggered an official recount. Reuters reports that local elections officers must complete machine recounts by 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15, but some are warning they may not be done in time. If the margin is still within one-quarter of a percentage point, another recount will be ordered. The much-debated thru-turn is scheduled to open this evening at State Street and Veterans Memorial Parkway. Following months of construction, left turn signals have been removed from the intersection. Instead, the Ada County Highway District says drivers on State Street will continue through the intersection, make a U-turn at the next traffic signal, drive back to the intersection and make a right turn onto Veterans Memorial Parkway. ACHD insists that the change will reduce wait times at the intersection by about 50 percent. pdf-1 Doctors from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the American Heart Association have released updated guidelinesformanaging cholesterol to minimize the risk of heart attack and stroke. They advocate for more scheduled testing of LDL, or bad cholesterol. From the other end of the health spectrum, Food and Wine magazine reports that McDonalds has begun testing something new at franchises in California, Nevada and Hawaii: cheesy bacon fries. Thats a big deal for McDonalds locations in the U.S., but Food and Wine says the chain once tried chocolate and pumpkin sauce fries in some of its locations in Japan. Disney fans blew up the internet Monday when the Mouse House released its first teaser trailer for Toy Story 4.The film opens in June of 2019. Take a look:

April Robinson has joined TitleOne as an office administrator in the companys Caldwell office. Robinson has three years of title and escrow experience, as well as experience working at several vineyards in the Willamette Valley. Robinson holds a bachelors degree in public relations and advertising from University of Oregon. Mariah Schoolcraft has joined TitleOne as ...

Loretta LeBaron has joined TitleOne as a delivery specialist in the companys Twin Falls office. She has seven years of customer service experience and is bilingual in English and Spanish. LeBaron is also a licensed cosmetologist.

The Boise State football team has a maximum of four games remaining at New Mexico on Friday, home against Utah State on Nov. 24, a potential Mountain West championship Click to Continue

College coaches around the West have found their way to the Treasure Valleys fertile recruiting grounds. Three girls in the 5A Southern Idaho Conference enter the season committed to Division Click to Continue