May 2nd Place Disobedience

Cheryl Kelly

DISOBEDIENCE!   Genre – Memoir – Word Count – 791 ‘I’m going to die!’ A tremulous voice somewhere inside my head, accompanied by an ear-piercing

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May 1st Place In the Moment

Lenka Wagner

This is it.  The moment that will decide my future is here. In the next fifteen minutes or so I’ll receive my sentence.  I shuffle

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April 3rd Place The Battle of Mrs Robinson’s Table

Ken Cotterill

The Battle of Mrs Robinson’s Table     As an ambitious academic I discovered that nobody had done any work on the famous ant  war of 2020.

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April 2nd place: Mirror on the wall

Cheryl Kelly

The Mirror on the Wall – 627 words And so it began. Her nightly ritual. Cup of tea on the bedside table. Pillows plumped up

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April 1st place A Pandemic is Child’s Play..

ANOther

A Pandemic is Child’s Play. Hearing Maeve scream, I put my brush on the edge of my palette and ran outside. Maeve and Robbie had

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3rd place Last Dice of the Throw

Ken Cotterill

Last Dice of the Throw    Of course, it wasn’t meant to be like that. Once he had joined this dumb-looking writers   group he knew that

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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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