2nd Place Picture This

Mary Serenc

Picture this. 7th June.  This was going to be our year.  The year Quentin and I were going to retire and travel the world.  In

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2nd place The Commuters

Cheryl Kelly

The Commuters –  Oh God!….Here she comes – Mary-bloody-Poppins!  Fran watched as Lisa glided down the stairs and onto the station platform “Morning Fran –

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Winner Jinx

kerynelliott21

Title: Jinx I peered out through my kitchen window. With daylight all but gone, the evening was turning rapidly to night. I strained my eyes,

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2nd runner up: Shagger’s Serendipity

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  It is an incontrovertible fact that a fool and his money are soon parted. The story I am about to recite really did happen

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Joint 1st runner up: Cryo

Oonagh Prettejohn

CRYO  I am awake.  My back presses on a cold hard surface. I listen to the sluggish pump of my heart. Cold claws at me. 

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1st runner up: The Man in the Chair

Cheryl Kelly

The Man in the Chair – (Paranormal – True Story) – Word Count 579 The house was a free-standing end Terrace in the inner Sydney

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1st Place The Eyes Have it

Jeanette McInnes

Surgery in a foreign country is never fun. On the other hand, where better to have an operation than in Hippocrates General Hospital, Thessaloníki? Post-operatively,

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I don’t want to go to The Crossing.

Pete Barker

“I don’t want to go to The Crossing.” Rebekah pouted at her father. It was Friday. What used to be called Spring. Time for crops

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Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Ken Cotterill

Sunday, Bloody Sunday Ekaterinburg, Tuesday, July 16, 1918 We waited in the cellar. That hot, stifling cellar. It was the dead of night. How many

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Pull The Plug on Pokies

Jennifer Marsden

PULL THE PLUG ON POKIES In July 2017 Queenslanders set a new record. In that one month more than $215 million was lost by Queenslanders

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The Table

Cheryl Kelly

“What the hell do you think you’re playing at!  SELL IT! OVER MY DEAD BODY! It belongs to me!  I’m the eldest – Mother said

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The Seven Gadflies of Socrates

Phil Dowsett

A Poem TWG Theme: Protest My Title: The Seven Gadflies of Socrates. ___________________________________________________________________________ Webmasters note. For the full experiance of this poem, please follow the

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