Joint 1st A Smiling Woman Killed the Radio Star

Ken Cotterill

Below is a letter written to Ita Buttrose, chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, dated March 5, 2020. Archive number: 556098 Dear Ms Buttrose, My

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3rd TAP TAP TAPPING

Jennifer Marsden

I stood rigid. Hypervigilant and scanning each window and door from the corner between the lounge and the hall. Each night I had taken up

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2nd A Shocking Ensemble

Phil Dowsett

A Shocking Ensemble In the spring of the year 1995, Faye stood at the side of the open grave. A cruel grin of satisfaction stretched

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1st Neighbourhood Watch.

Bhama Daly

Neighbourhood Watch. The moon casts its silvery sheen on the manicured garden.  She hears the wild dogs barking in the forest beyond. Why do dogs

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3rd The Pearl in Me

Oonagh Prettejohn

Pearl in Me Memoir The Don Redman orchestra strikes up an upbeat blues and I am hoping the vinyl doesn’t stick as I step into

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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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