August 2026; 1st: See My Name (prompt: Close to the edge)

Philippe Savidis

‘We are the sum of our mistakes, aren’t we?’ exclaimed my Uncle Jerry bitterly as he shuffled through yellowing folios and disintegrating documents written in

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August 2026, 2nd: Another Day in LA (prompt: Close to the edge)

Ken Cotterill

Prologue… A young man is attempting to commit suicide until the arrival of a very special person.   A young man on the edge Office

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August 2026, 3rd: Despair (prompt: Close to the edge)

Jennifer Marsden

Tom held the old 303 rifle across his knees and wept. His sobs shook his body as he rested his head upon his hands on

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July 2026, 1st: Memories of Mary (prompt: Echo)

Fay McGrath

‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.’ Caesar was dead. Mark Antony, dressed in regulation toga, addressed the crowd. I was amongst them, a willing

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July 2026, 2nd: Twilight Gorge (prompt: Echo)

Jonathan Cornelius

I am a rational man. I know well the answer to the question “If a tree falls in the forest when no one is present

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July 2026, 3rd: Echo’s (prompt: Echo)

David Hodges

I was in that dream again; such a dream that shook my foundations, flooded my mind with deep and painful echoes of a life I

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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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