August 2025, 1st: Easy Money

Jeanette McInnes

Life hasn’t been fair to me. After leaving school, I tried to join the police. They said I was one centimetre too short, but I

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August 2025, 2nd: My Final Breath

Robyn Kienzle

When I take my final breath of our carbonated air, I hope my family, of all ages, will be there, I want them to know

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August 2025, 3rd: The Way We Were

Philippe Savidis

In forty years of teaching, he had heard every excuse in all their variations and gradations. The parent before him – Harry, was it? –

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July 2025, 1st: Killer Game

Fay McGrath

A death, a younger brother, before his 40th birthday. Grazing land near Biboohra that she’d inherited was sold by the widow. Approval for a crocodile

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July 2025, 2nd: Extra Anchovies

Robyn Kienzle

I hated my father. My “Da” as I called him. He thought it was a name given with affection. It wasn’t. I started calling him

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July 2025, 3rd: Layla

Philippe Savidis

It suited Dom to have me around. I was a relic from another age, the ‘Old Man’ with my fedora, thick silverly hair and courtly

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June 2025, 1st: Starry Nights

Fay McGrath

Trinity Bay was at its best that evening. Against the darkening sky, the stars proclaimed their glory and mystery. James and his boys had a

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June 2025, 2nd: Last Hoorah

Robyn Kienzle

‘Turn that damned music off!’ ‘It was playing on a loop on the blue-tooth speaker when we got here, sir,’ said the young constable on

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June 2025, 3rd: Cupcake Kismet

Joanne Chua-Robertson

Jenna closed her eyes and reminisced when Max rested his head on her stomach during a relaxing picnic. She felt the warm spring breeze on

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May 2025, 1st: Hot Kiss Chicken

Philippe Savidis

‘Yours is a food family’ he said without much enthusiasm as he surveyed the spectacular spread. ‘I suspect that he would have been happy with

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May 2025, 2nd: Duplicitous Designs

Joanne Chua-Robertson

Anna pressed the doorbell and waited patiently for one of the office workers to let her in. There was no sign on the door but

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May 2025, 3rd: True Justice

Robert Beattie

‘…And on the charges of three counts of first degree murder, we, the jury, find the defendant…not guilty.’ The courthouse erupted. There was shouting from

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