June 2026, 1st: How We Met (prompt: Zombies)

Philippe Savidis

I’ve never been the first choice, or I suspect, the second or third, but I am the last man standing. Apparently, in the days of

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June 2026, 2nd: Same Old, Same Old (prompt: Zombies)

Kathryn Ash

Jones has a deep sense of something urgent lately. He cannot think what. The feeling is like a blind pimple he cannot bring to a

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June 2026, 3rd: The First Chapter (prompt: Zombies)

David Hodges

It was past midnight and my brain hummed with a thousand ideas that popped through my consciousness. as my brain was on fire and my

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May 2026, 1st: Tea with the Devil (prompt: Greed)

Philippe Savidis

My cassock’s getting a little tight around the waist. I stress eat, and the weed gummies recommended by the young doctor under a mental health

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May 2026, 2nd: The Lighting Was Perfect (prompt: Greed)

Clare Kelly

Through the wide-angle lens, everything popped just right. Nearly… Jaxx darted from behind the tripod and infinitesimally tweaked the angle of the ring light. There.

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May 2026, 3rd: Ice Cream for the Lions (prompt: Greed)

Jennifer Marsden

‘Mum come and watch the footy with me. It’s the semi-final.’ ‘Sorry luv but I’m watching a movie with your dad.’ ‘Dad won’t watch it

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April 2026, 1st: Heart of Darkness (prompt: Fight or Flight)

Ken Cotterill

The big trucks came in one after the other, crunching across the loose gravel of the supply depot. The vehicles from Four Field Regiment, One

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April 2026, 2nd: The Primal Man (prompt: Fight or Flight)

Robert Beattie

He has a knife. I could only stare in mute comprehension. There was a substance-addled tilt to the man’s eyes, his arms and face were

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April 2026, 3rd: Hairy Encounters (prompt: Fight or Flight)

Lenka Wagner

I am 196 cm tall and weigh around 82 kilograms. Back in high school, my PE teacher called me ‘the perfect football specimen’. But I

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April 2026, 3rd: Who’s Jimmy? (prompt: Fight or Flight)

Fay McGrath

Something woke her. Puzzling. A sound. Not possums on the roof. Dingoes?  Blood-curdling pack howls had become a common occurrence. But she discounted that idea

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March 2026, 1st: Call and Response (prompt: Firefly)

Kathryn Ash

Summer swarmed around her. It wasn’t the joyous kind she was used to. This was violence. Northern summer came packing: hard slapping sun, punch-gut humidity,

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March 2026, 2nd: In the Garden (prompt: Firefly)

Jonathan Cornelius

That Friday evening in August I was already sitting at our mossy table in the garden when I saw Isabel crossing the lawn, feet bare,

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