The final bell has been rung, the curtains drawn, the battle... over.And only three remain standing. Battered, bloody, but alive (we think).VICTORY belongs to the winners of the PseudoPod Flash Fiction Contest VII!In first place, with 21 votes, the undisputed champion Got Your Nose by Karlo Yeager Rodriguez!In second place, with 14 votes, Weapons They Gave You to Fight the Blood Monster by Hannah Whiteoak!And in third place, after a particularly vicious tiebreaker, with 12 and then 26 votes, Overnight Home Companion by Frank J. Oreto!Certainly deserving of an honorable mention for a hard-fought tiebreaker is Fishing Season by Anna Madden -- that was neck and neck for a long time!Thank you, once again, to all of our authors, voters, and commenters -- you are all amazing people and this contest would be nothing without you!