Assassination by Richard Hooton | Shortlisted Entry Short Story Competition 2022
Something’s been stolen from inside me, an emptiness now dwelling in its place. I’ll never get it back, because youContinue Reading
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Pink Horses by Tony Warner | Shortlisted Entry Short Story Competition 2022
‘Grandma, can we paint some pretty pictures now?’ Usain has been fussing me all morning. Truth to tell I’m havingContinue Reading
That’ll Teach Yous by Katherine Mezzacappa | Shortlisted Entry Short Story Competition 2022
(Belfast, December 1972) Nathalie hated going for the messages[1], but didn’t know how to refuse; her discontented mother always hadContinue Reading
Edna by Christopher White | SECOND PLACE Short Story Competition 2022
It was that time in the afternoon, the lull in the day’s progress, the time between now and then, whenContinue Reading
Nocturnal Pilgrimage by Helen Harradine | THIRD PLACE Short Story Competition 2022
I tap Morrison’s hand. Dead to the world. That’s what you say about me when I’m in a deep sleep.Continue Reading
After the Heist by Lesley Aldridge | FIRST PLACE Short Story Competition 2022
Col felt a solitary tear of sweat running down his cheek and onto his chin. He drummed his thumbs againstContinue Reading
Wafer by Asiyah Jassat
Trigger warning: suicide Emaciated, he stood silently wedged between the wall and their table unnoticed. He listened intently to theirContinue Reading
Intrusions, pt. 2 by Kevin Sheil
He opened his eyes but found it hard to focus through the gloom of night. His mind, racing a momentContinue Reading
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