2nd The Belle of the Ball

Philippe Savidis

The invitation when it arrived was printed on high quality paper. Year after year as everything went digital, when births, deaths and marriages were announced

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1st Destroying Cleisthenes’s Legacy

Ken Cotterill

Destroying Cleisthenes’s Legacy    I hadn’t seen Dobson for some time. I heard he had not been well, hence his incarceration in the ‘home.’ When

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3rd The Hermit

Phil Dowsett

‘I’d be happy to help,’ Harvey had said eagerly, as the opportunity would be something different to do. Helen had made the invitation a week

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2nd Timing is Everything

Philippe Savidis

The chairs fit neatly one on top of the other. This pile of moulded plastic measuring barely six foot had just half an hour before

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1st place The Memory Palace

Jennifer Marsden

The Memory Palace The leaving at first was fragmented, and, Jane hoped, not discernible to anyone but herself. If one word was not immediately recalled

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1st Place, As Time Goes Bye

Fiona Landau

As Time Goes Bye Babes in arms don’t care for times weight. They live in the moment and don’t rise to the bait. No thought

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2nd Place Samoan Princess

Robyn Kienzle

SAMOAN PRINCESS Lise ran to the edge of the water then stopped dead, immobilised by the enormity of what she was about to do.  It

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3rd The Norwegian

Philippe Savidis

‘You’ll find the devil at the crossroads’ was one of grandma’s favourite sayings. She lived life as if walking on a razor’s edge. There was

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3. The Karens

Jeanette McInnes

On sunrise I regained consciousness. Surprised to be alive, I did a check. My right side was a mess; swollen eye, bloodied nose, broken clavicle,

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2nd Unfiltered Views

Robyn Kienzle

UNFILTERED VIEWS Joanna hated doctors. Well, not really. She actually admired doctors and was quite fond of her own GP. What she hated was GOING

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1st Confidence Born of Love

Jennifer Marsden

CONFIDENCE BORN OF LOVE Tom has been dead for six years,’ Jane said firmly. It’s time to get back on the horse.’ That was an

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1st: Phantom’s Pulse

Des O'Neill

Like a glass plate beneath the scientist’s microscope, the window of time reveals more than the eye can see. As society settles into a wary

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