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Lucy Smith: Competition Twenty-Seven Winning Flash Fiction: Gilded Edges

S.A. Greene: Competition Twenty-Seven Highly Commended: The Boy On The Ann Alexander

Lily Séjor: Competition Twenty-Seven Highly Commended: Fires & Ashes

Kerri McCourt: Competition Twenty-Seven Shortlisted: Letter Soup

Joanna Miller: Competition Twenty-Seven Shortlisted: Staying Strong

Alison Wassell: Competition Twenty-Seven Shortlisted: A Quiet Night In

Christine Mackenzie Ross: Baggage Reclaim

Peter Eger: Ossa Temporis

Ian Johnson: The one after ‘not sure’

Mary Ellenburg: One Life

Ali Rowland: ‘Oh, I Think You’re Still Muted’

William Draycott: That Sunday

Caroline Grimshaw: His Mouth Promises Nothing

Cheryl Snell: The Tea-Leaf Reader

Maxine Davies: The Salesman

Donald Ranard: Don’t Mean Nothin’

Kirby Wright: Hiking Moloka’i

Kezia Frost: I Found a Bike

Amy Bharucha: The Soil Girl

Paul McDonald: Moon In Their Eyes

Adele Evershed: The Winter of her Deep Content

Bill Cox: In a Clearing, in the Deep Forest

Simon Duncan: Shambles Amongst the Alps* *Apologies to Edward Whymper Scrambles Amongst the Alps (1871) 

Chris Cottom: Competition Twenty-Six Winning Flash Fiction: Yes, Pumpernickel Makes a Wonderful Wedding Present

Heather D Haigh: Competition Twenty-Six Highly Commended: The Edge

S.A. Greene: Competition Twenty-Six Highly Commended: Lunch Date

David Mann: Competition Twenty-Six Shortlisted: Yes, The River Knows

Alison Wassell: Competition Twenty-Six Shortlisted: When Life Throws You Rugby Balls

Denise Bayes: Competition Twenty-Six Shortlisted: Shades of Clotilde

Karen Southall Watts: Time for Tea

Donald Ranard: Football

Davey Freedman: The Problem with Word Problems

Chris Coll: Passenger Injury

Ryan Deysher: Regime Change

T.L. Tomljanovic: Possibility of White

Sayani De: Hot Kahwa

Lynne Curry: Valentine’s Day Roses Ran Away

Stefan Sofiski: Into Congo

Jack Morris: I. CAN’T. BREATHE

Johan Smits: The Question

Mark Stocker: Girl, in an archway

Sarah McNamara: Train 1525

Michael Downing: The Story Teller

Lynne Curry: I Need A New Human

Joanna Miller: Competition Twenty-Five Winning Flash Fiction: Ghosts In The Holloway

Dettra Rose: Competition Twenty-Five Highly Commended: Guarding the Broken Gate

Anne Howkins: Competition Twenty-Five Highly Commended: Because Education Matters

Jean Fyfe: Competition Twenty-Five Shortlisted: The River

Clare Middlecote: Competition Twenty-Five Shortlisted: The Bewitching Hour

Sharon Boyle: Competition Twenty-Five Shortlisted: Life Had Been Grinding Along For An Ice-Age When One Night…

Pam Avoledo: We Were The Skyline

Don Nigroni: A Snitch in Time

Scott MacLeod: In The Chips

Samantha Barclay: Sandpiper

Emma Phillips: Santa Fraud

Melissa Dennison: The Red Tent

Paul McDonald: The Taxidermist’s Art

Douglas MacKevett: Hunger

Jim Harrington: The One

Jude Luttrell Bradley: Architecture of Love

Susan Barsby: Syringo/ Syringa

Eleanor Luke: Competition Twenty-Four Winning Flash Fiction: When the results from the ancestry site come through, Dilly’s mother admits she didn’t use a sperm bank after all

Chris Cottom: Competition Twenty-Four Highly Commended: Things You Can’t Say at Your Sea Scouts Tryout

Fiona McKay: Competition Twenty-Four Highly Commended: Don’t Look Away, Don’t Look Back, Don’t Look

Tim Cameron Long: Competition Twenty-Four Shortlisted: Chalma

Graham Rice: Competition Twenty-Four Shortlisted: Bubble Man

Alison Wassell: Competition Twenty-Four Shortlisted: A Beautiful Bruise

Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe: They’re Stupid

Peter Dellolio: Halloween In New England

Simon Steven: The Physics of Marriage

Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe: The Trestle

Julia Vellucci: Tragedy

Pete Prokesch: How to Save a Marriage

Louise Morriss: Inside The Peach There Is A Stone

David Patten: Art Gallery

Daniel Key: Greenfinger

Elizabeth Murphy: That Stink of Stale Chanel

Caroline Greene: Competition Twenty-Three Winning Flash Fiction: A Poet Rejuvenates The Parts Other Treatments Cannot Reach

Bev Clark: Competition Twenty-Three Highly Commended: THE MARKETPLACE

Caroline Mckenzie: Competition Twenty-Three Highly Commended: Dule Tree

Kate Diamond: Competition Twenty-Three Shortlisted: Unspoken Epilogue

Alexandra Peel: Competition Twenty-Three Shortlisted: Our Town

Denarii Peters: Competition Twenty-Three Shortlisted: An Occasional Destruction of Roses

Fergus Reid: Late

Ellie Ness: Deluge

Cecilia Kennedy: The Haunted Tiara

Roopa Menon: Billowing Smoke

Anika Carpenter: We Were Dispirited

Whitney Glover: Windswept and Handsome Girl

JP Richards: Marmite

Scott MacLeod: Two Eggs, Over Easy

Hattie Logan: Blue Monday

Joelle Killian: Medusa Fails Therapy

Jude Potts: A jammed-up heart can’t keep its beat, so how can time heal it?

Zary Fekete: Eucharist

Chris Cottom: Isosceles and Equilateral

Joel O'Flaherty: Driftwood

Chris Cottom: Competition Twenty-Two Winning Flash Fiction: Hungry Like the Wolf

Heather D Haigh: Competition Twenty-Two Highly Commended: Johnny’s a Fighter

Eleanor Luke: Competition Twenty-Two Highly Commended: Two Teardrops in a Tidal Wave

Vijayalakshmi Sridhar: Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted: The Mermaid’s Tail

Emily Macdonald: Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted: FOUR OF THESE FIVE DREAMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE

Kate Axeford: Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted: For What We Are About To Receive

Daniel Guy Baldwin: Atlas Suffocated

Barbara Kuessner Hughes: Antiques And Ashes

Liam Kerry: Something to Declare

Laura Shell: Through These Eyes

Ali Rowland: No Fantasy Stories Involving Elves, Magic Potions, Wizards, Etc. Will Be Accepted

Adele Evershed: The Forgiving Business

Claire Schön: On the Bench

Paul McDonald: Eggs

Roger Haydon: Donald’s End

Patience Mackarness: Targeted

E. W. Farnsworth: Patina

Deb Campbell: Wall of Glass

Karen Southall Watts: Private Property

Sherry Morris: When the Trumpeter Carries On

Emma Phillips: Competition Twenty-One Winning Flash Fiction: Coming Home From the Mill At Least Is Certain (After LS Lowry)

Shirley Ann Bunyan: Competition Twenty-One Highly Commended: Bees Fly

Jude Potts: Competition Twenty-One Highly Commended: A Kintsugi Heart

Denise Bayes: Competition Twenty-One Shortlisted: Suffusion of Colour

Karen Arnold: Competition Twenty-One Shortlisted: Radio Free Europe

Alison Wassell: Competition Twenty-One Shortlisted: Land Girl

Mina Otsuka: Order of Operations

Brendan Thomas: Strong Foundations

Roberta Beach Jacobson: Mr Blue Jacket

Martin Eaton: You & Me

Donald Mason: At Wapping, East London (ca. 1909)

Donald Ranard: The Room

Joe Giordano: One Boy’s Trouble

Crockett Doob: Boring Sex

Neil K. Henderson: Open Season For Orbiting Fridges

Linda Hibbin: BIG FOOT

Donald Mason: Three figures, executed in charcoal by Jacob Vaughan of Leonard Vaughan, his father

Charles Prelle: Competition Twenty Winning Flash Fiction: The Tree Wife

Jane Broughton: Competition Twenty Highly Commended: My mother has become an owl

Jonathan Saint: Competition Twenty Highly Commended: Heat

Richard Hughes: Competition Twenty Shortlisted: The Box of Tears

Emily Macdonald: Competition Twenty Shortlisted: TAKE IT AWAY SNOW-WHITE GIRL. IT’S ALL YOURS. IT’S ALL YOURS.

Chris Cottom: Competition Twenty Shortlisted: O that my tongue were in the thunder’s mouth

Michael Bloor: The Eyes

Audrey Niven: 78 Synonyms to live by

Shoshauna Shy: So Long “Best By Date”

Karris Rae: Grindstone

Hazel Humphreys: The Death of Poetry

Salvatore Difalco: Recovery

Christopher J. Burke: A Sliver of Pi

Cheryl Snell: Full Turn

Andrea Lucy-Hirst: Mine

James Roderick Burns: The Moustache

Debra Plucknett: Chicken Skirmish

Zary Fekete: Bird Market

Rory ffoulkes: Into the valley of death

William Cass: Neighbors

Robert James-Robbins: Sound of the Crowd

Alison Wassell: Not Everything In The Seventies Was Black And White

Adele Evershed: Keeping Up Appearances

Kik Lodge: Cliff Richard is being auctioned

Adele Evershed: Competition Nineteen Winning Flash Fiction: Scenes of War and Other Things I’ve Forgotten

Jude Potts: Competition Nineteen Highly Commended: Over Her Heart, A Tattoo – Here Be Dragons

Karen Arnold: Competition Nineteen Highly Commended: Dancing At The Galway Oyster Festival

Leonard Kress: Competition Nineteen Shortlisted: Cubism

Gary Finnegan: Competition Nineteen Shortlisted: Biology Lessons

Maria Thomas: Competition Nineteen Shortlisted: A Werewolf in Soho

Ian Carass: Summer’s Day

Sarah Barnett: The Genie of The Lamp’s Sojourn in Alfred’s Antique Shop, Leipziger Street, Berlin, Germany, 1935-1938

David Patten: Brief Respite

Roger Haydon: Making Christmas Okay

Ted Witham: The Raven Always Comes Back

Leonard Kress: The Relic

Robert James-Robbins: Belladonna

Chandrika R Krishnan: Never was it an easy journey

Cindy Pereira: Mother Ocean

Derek McMillan: The Weed

Ramona Gore: Extenuating Circumstances

S.A. Greene: Competition Eighteen Winning Story: Annie Builds Walls

Maria Thomas: Competition Eighteen Highly Commended: Perfectly Portioned Victoria Sponge

Kathy Hoyle: Competition Eighteen Highly Commended: Fish Sands, 1984

Chris Cottom: Competition Eighteen Shortlisted: Things I Can’t Forget from Six Days That Summer

Cheryl Tan: Competition Eighteen Shortlisted: Abandonment Study

Cecilia Kennedy: All the Rest

Esther Arthurson: Genesis 2

John Holmes: The Waiting Room Game

Kate Axeford: The Horror behind Halloween, Uncle Jimmy’s Tree

Karen Arnold: “Antigone Lives in Flat 1A, Don’t Leave Her Post here. Also The Bell Doesn’t Work, Please Knock Loudly”

Zoe Davis: Greensleeves

Daisy Ravenel: Slash

Mark Harbinger: Mindful Listening

Bill Cox: Life in Three Dimensions

Alejandro Gonzales: Another World

Emma Burnett: Fluid Movements

Anne Howkins: The Cat and the Fiddle

Christopher P. Mooney: The Eternal Loop of Life and Death

Carol Caffrey: Caveat Emptor

Mike Taylor: At The End

Karen Southall Watts: Ophiology

Richard Hughes: We

Emma Phillips: Competition Seventeen Winning Story: Frontier

Beck Collett: Competition Seventeen Highly Commended: Pig Willow

Fiona J. Mackintosh: Competition Seventeen Highly Commended: Ocularity

Isabelle Fortaleza-Tan: Competition Seventeen Shortlisted: Temima

Elizabeth Taylor: Competition Seventeen Shortlisted: Lost Property

Willelmina Joseph-Loewenthal: The Volunteer Gardener

Janet Sillett: Wine, Pork Pies and Bananas

J. Iner Souster: The Things We Find in a Museum

Deanna Salser: Sleep Is A Curious Thing

Daphne Fischer: Tight! Tight!

Daphne Loads: Lunacy

Adaora Ogunniyi: Six-Feet

Melanie Maggard: Remains of My Youth

J. Iner Souster: Vast Expanse

Emma Burnett: Janice’s son

Linda Hibbin: AMBROSIAL EXPECTATIONS Vs. ACERBIC REALITY

Timothy C Goodwin: Grandma Visits Us At The Pizza Shop

Elizabeth Murphy: Seven’s Tale

Jonathan Hunter: The Helium Hullabaloo

Michael G. O'Connell: Enda Things

Sarah Royston: Competition Sixteen Winner: Three rites for a passage

Fiona J. Mackintosh: Competition Sixteen Highly Commended: Trojan Horse

Chris Cottom: Competition Sixteen Highly Commended: Salad Days

Heather D Haigh: Competition Sixteen Shortlisted: This House Knows

Laura Besley: Competition Sixteen Shortlisted: Safe

Maureen Telfer: Salvage

Karen Watts: Wounded Nightingales

Ellie Ness: Tick Tock

Eliza Fairley: High Tide

Nick Black: The Lost Kingdom

J. Iner Souster: The Owl

Mairead Robinson: Fluid

Hannah Retallick: Rose Water

Derville Quigley: Nowhere Girls

Chris Burchett: Secret bishness

Eleanor Ness: Waiting Room

Sherry Morris: Hard Hug

Eliza Fairley: This Farm Has a Ghost

Adele Evershed: Synonyms

Emma Phillips: Competition Fifteen Winner: Here Come The Gulls

JP Relph: Competition Fifteen Highly Commended: Silly Girl

Claire Schön: Competition Fifteen Highly Commended: Breaking Eggs

Jackie Morris: Competition Fifteen Shortlisted: Storm Madeline, 2016

Julia Ruth Smith: Competition Fifteen Shortlisted: Float, Sail, Move On

Mathew Gostelow: As the Halo Faded, So Did the Ghosts of Us

JD Clapp: The Physics of a Breakup

Esther Byrne: Take my place

Geoff Sawers: The Watch

Denis Bell: Tom

Christine Reeves: A Good Life?

Mark Mayes: Message

J. Iner Souster: From Hope Came Peace, and From Peace Came Home

Julius Olofsson: Levitating

Sam McPherson: Limbo

Sandy K Verma: Buttermilk Mother

Kathryn Silver-Hajo: What Their Hands Did

JJ Courtney: Truth or Dare

Cheryl Snell: Renunciation

Karen Arnold: Don’t Start With The Photographs

Helen Rana: Aftermath

Charles Prelle: Competition Fourteen Winning Story: The Transfer of Energy Between Two Bodies in Motion

Fhionna Mac: Competition Fourteen Highly Commended: He Will Understand Eventually

Eleanor Luke: Competition Fourteen Highly Commended: Always the Thief

Stephen Leatherdale: Competition Fourteen Shortlisted: Pursuit

Abigail Williams: Competition Fourteen Shortlisted: Love Hoarder

Martha Lane: Sweet Tea

Elizabeth Murphy: Weather Extremes

Maya Cheav: The Swelling of the Years

NR: Winter + Spring

Swetha Amit: Grandpa’s haunt

Gina Maranto: The Good Dentist

Michael Bloor: Nemesis

J. Iner Souster: Springs Early Thaw

Adele Evershed: Moth to a Flame

Kevin Owen: Mittendorf’s Diamond

Roopa Swaminathan: Sixth-Grade Elections at Indira International School

Eleanor Luke: Elsie’s Tropical Aquarium of Lost Souls

Sophie Greenwood: fuzz

Daniel Addercouth: I’ll Come Back and Visit

Lorette C. Luzajic: The Gnome

Roger Haydon: Household chores

Andy Smith: This Bastard Pen

Debra Williams: Vincent at Arles

Sarah Hunter: The old railway tunnel

Maria Thomas: Competition Thirteen Winning Story: Grandpa called her Tiger

Chris Cottom: Competition Thirteen Highly Commended: Things I Won’t Forget Now I’ve Moved Back Home

Kerry Hadley-Pryce: Competition Thirteen Highly Commended: Enough

Joyce Bingham: Competition Thirteen Shortlisted: The Statue of Infertility

Richard Hooton: Competition Thirteen Shortlisted: Quizmaster

Cecilia Kennedy: Search Party

Cecilia L. Maddison: The Wheel

Alejandro Gonzales: The Reunion

Emma Mather: After you say, “I do”

K. J. Watson: Literary Demon

Robert Nazar Arjoyan: A Fathom Is Six Feet

Zary Fekete: Volcano Girl

Adele Evershed: While Memory Holds A Seat

Elizabeth Murphy: Peace on Earth

Omobola Osamor: Voyeur

Jennifer Braunfels: Captive

J. Iner Souster: Into the Silence, She Drives Me

Brian Holland: Ships on their Tongues

Madison Randolph: Trapped in a Memory

Anne Goodwin: Hiroshima Maidens

Michael Bloor: Double Dating

Alex Rankin: Mother of Thousands

Linda Hibbin: Talking it Thro—

Alison Wassell: The Upcycler

Alejandro Gonzales: The Book

Dann Wonser: Damage

Alison Wassell: Competition Twelve Winning Story: Superman Smiles

Karen Arnold: Competition Twelve Highly Commended: In Ordinary Times

Martha Lane: Competition Twelve Highly Commended: The Carver

Chris Cottom: Competition Twelve Shortlisted: Physical Geography

Rachel Canwell: Competition Twelve Shortlisted: Instructions for sweethearts watching Spitfires leave

Jim Latham: Stop Transmission

John Sheirer: Purest

Tess Hassan: Piano Boy

J. Iner Souster: The Bite

Marion Lougheed: Cut Flowers

Lizzie Eldridge: Swim to Me

Courtney Harler: Pickle Juice

Val Roberts: Just like Colditz

Roopa Swaminathan: Maria’s Speech About Weighty Issues

T. K. Howell: Tahiti

Maria Thomas: Mrs Daniels does the wrong thing

Rita Ciresi: This Way and That

Mehreen Ahmed: Tongi

J. Iner Souster: The Wraith

Jack Bumby: Frame 313

Jackie Morris: The Mural on the Playroom Wall

Angeline Schellenberg: Spinning

Julia Ruth Smith: Competition Eleven Winning Story: Your Husband Is a Crocodile Tonight

Emily Macdonald: Competition Eleven Highly Commended: PUMPING AT PIHA

Jo Clark: Competition Eleven Highly Commended: Dead Water

Alison Wassell: Competition Eleven Shortlisted: Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting

Fiona McKay: Competition Eleven Shortlisted: The Destroying Angel

Fiona McKee: Reflecting

Rachel Canwell: English Garden, Munich. 3.9.1939

Alisha J Prince: Tinnitus

Maria Thomas: Fragments

Emily Macdonald: The Sun Still Insists Upon Rising

Roopa Swaminathan: Keeping Up With The Robertsons

Mathieu Cailler: Extra Innings

Michael Bloor: The Wisdom of Work Placements

Amanda Marples: Heaven is for Forest Bathers

Kate Axeford: My Sister the Violin

Ben Wakefield: Offerings

Jim Latham: Noon in Florida

Ann Marie Struck: Amelia’s Run

Shoshauna Shy: Hide and Seek

Hugh Cartwright: How to Shrink Your Bedroom

Fhionna Mac: Over the Dyke

Ian McNaughton: In a Flap

Roger Haydon: Life and death in sixty four squares

Salvatore Difalco: En Route

Marion Bowler: Beachcomber

Fiona Campbell: The magic of music

Viktoria Dahill: Cow Tongues

Kay Lesley Reeves: A Second Chance

JP Relph: Competition Ten Winning Story: Do Everything Your Mama Said Not To

Anne Daly: Competition Ten Highly Commended: Love Letter to the Sea

Sherry Morris: Competition Ten Highly Commended: Eilidh’s Amulet

Isabelle B.L: Competition Ten Shortlisted: Prickly Pears

Jane Broughton: Competition Ten Shortlisted: Sindy fights dirty

Willelmina Joseph-Loewenthal: The Derelict

Omobola Osamor: My Left Hand

John Reid: Swipe

Kim Tennison: Whisper to a Dandelion

Jonathan Hunter: A Squirrel Kissing Metamorphoses

Karen Walker: I unwrap a bottle of Tuscan herb infused olive oil, untie the white bow

Michelle Chin: Tetris and Trauma (it’s all fun & games)

Tim Kirton: Man with a Gun

Rory ffoulkes: Lights flashing under the door

Michael Bloor: The Trip to St Andrews

Valmic Mukund: Parrot Killer

Roopa Swaminathan: Lily

Mars Nobody: Excerpt from the Diary of Edgar Payson

Mehreen Ahmed: Black Tulip

Maria Thomas: Of Cabbages and Fools

Colleen Cox: Birthday Sparklers

Amber Miller: Night One-Hundred-Fifty

K.J. Hanson: Grief

Mander Ellis: Passing Thru

Karen Watts: Don’t Be Alarmed

Lindsay Bamfield: Lessons Learned in the Playground

Emily Key: Electric Love

Thomas Morgan: On the Tape

Salvatore Difalco: MR. TESTICOLI

Armand Diab: My Craft

Della Leavitt: The Necklace

Charles Prelle: Competition Nine Winning Story: White Noise

Agnes Halvorssen: Competition Nine Highly Commended: Kelly Bishop says her house is haunted

Kathy Hoyle: Competition Nine Highly Commended: In the Dinosaur Museum, the Bones are Exposed

Sarah Barnett: Competition Nine Shortlisted: When they tried to make me neurotypical (and not be me)

Mary Francis: Competition Nine Shortlisted: Diary of a Unicorn Hunter

Mars Nobody: Big Bait

Andrew Johnson: The Psychiatrist and the Storyteller

Anika Carpenter: How We Celebrate Being Understood

Jack T. Canis: Phobetor

Roopa Swaminathan: A Day in the Life of a Chili

Rob Schnepp: T-R-O-U-B-L-E

Adele Hally: Waiting, Waiting

Marilyn Parr: What I’ll Do Tomorrow

Alex Antiuk: Big Red Nose

Doug Hawley: A Cat Who …

Martha Lane: A Skein Disrupted

Alejandro Gonzales: Death Wish

Tim Dadswell: Cornered

Jason Jawando: Prometheus and the Toucan

Caroline Osborne: When In Rome

Kristen Henderson: Cancer Ghosts

Finnian Burnett: Red Shirts Sometimes Survive

Katie Willow: Dropping the Scales

Roopa Swaminathan: Secrets of a Marriage #LongTermCoupleGoals

Zach Murphy: Opossum

Helen Harradine: The Glass Partition

Linda Hibbin: Thank heaven for little girls

Cole Beauchamp: Pensive Millennial Looking At Skyline

Michelle Christophorou: Competition Eight Winning Story: My child speaks with the voice of a swallow

Iona Rule: Competition Eight Highly Commended: Kiss Me, Tiger

Denise Bayes: Competition Eight Highly Commended: Off-Track

Mark Stocker: Competition Eight Shortlisted: Where it stops

Abi Hennig: Competition Eight Shortlisted: Zero Hour: Slash and Burn

Jeremy Nathan Marks: Chameleon

Zary Fekete: Clinic

Chella Courington: When Leaves Begin to Die

Hannah Powell: Stuck

Hannah Barnes: In The Early Hours

Bridget J. Daly: Airborne

Joseph Lewis: Burn

Nora Nadjarian: Watermelon and Black Pips

RJ Witlaw: A Door Never Opened

Geoff Sawers: In Her Own Skin

Derek McMillan: A Likely Story

Leonore Wilson: Barbed Wire

Viktoria Dahill: Wholegrain Mustard

Paul McDonald: They Lied About the Ice Cream

Mehreen Ahmed: The Box

Bridget J. Daly: In Which The Passenger Consults the Menu While a Drama Unfolds Below

Freddie Bonfanti: Emma’s Struggle

Paul Beckman: Giving Back Is My Job

Roopa Swaminathan: Grief-stricken

Tom Baldwin: The Circle

Madison LaTurner: Interlude

Tim Kirton: Doris

Martha Lane: Competition Seven Winning Story: The Grievers’ Horror Film Club

Daniel Guy Baldwin: Competition Seven Highly Commended: SCRABBLE (14)

Sherry Morris: Competition Seven Highly Commended: The Xylophonist’s Tune

Julia Ruth Smith: Competition Seven Shortlisted: How to Defrost a Heart

Roger Haydon: Competition Seven Shortlisted: Call me, tell me it was you

Kik Lodge: 840 times in succession

Cindy Hossain: What happens in the Arctic stays in the Arctic

Joyce Bingham: Castle in my pockets

Gaile Vince: The Summoning

Sarah Hunter: In the garden

Terry Holland: Smoke of Dreams

majoki: so the Sherpas say

Isabella Murray: Kinship of Music

Linda Hazaymeh: The Honeymoon

Roopa Swaminathan: She and Him

S.A. Greene: O! My America

Susan Earlam: Mealtime

Nicole. K. Hollick: Bitter Orange Blossoms

Catherine Moscatt: Contributions

Kieren Westwood: Empty Backyard Pool

Coleman Bigelow: Estranged

Isabelle B.L: A New Season

Ian Coldicott: The A to Z

Saoirse Rafferty: Vulnerable

Louella Lester: Blood From a Tick

Tamiko Dooley: Ryoko (Trips)

Bridget J. Daly: Driftwood

Iqbal Hussain: Look Not Backwards

Christopher P. Mooney: She, Her, Everything, Always

Doug Hawley: Undercover

Tim Kirton: My Perfect Man

Ian Coldicott: I Had No Idea

Kyle Hemmings: The Sting

Jonathan Hunter: All They Wanted Was Chips in Weston

Don Tassone: Free

Rachel O'Cleary: Competition Six Winning Story: Fight, Flight, and Freeze

Andrew Deathe: Competition Six Highly Commended: The Price of Love

Catherine O'Brien: Competition Six Highly Commended: The End

Frances Gapper: Competition Six Shortlisted: Light Romance

Fiona McKay: Competition Six Shortlisted: Palimpsest

Maxwell Suzuki: Mary’s Bouquet

Erica Sharlette: By the Light

Ryan Norman: Sinking

Dawn Siofra North: Little Splashes Of Yellow

Catherine O'Brien: Sometimes I visit them

Caroline Jenner: The Fair

Matthew Hisbent: Meadow sweet memory

Kate Miller: Management of Grief

Jenny Woodhouse: More sacred than the confessional

Tim Kirton: Sunday Morning

Kate Flannery: The Janitor

Rosie Arcane: Laid Bare

Ian Coldicott: I Opened the Letter

Marie Little: Number Nine had the Only Good View

Lewi Lewis: The Man Who Only Thought He Was

Eikus .S: This isn’t England

Cecilia Kennedy: Devil’s Urn

Meryl Hulber: Corey’s Worth

Harry Wilding: The End

John Crawford: Waiting on Bridesmaids in a Convenience Store Parking Lot

Linda Hibbin: der Formschneider

Ian Coldicott: Little Oranges

Tim Kirton: The Nobbled Boat

Karen Watts: Progress

Shelley Kirton: Bird of Pray

Marvin Harris: What I Learned From Deidra

Iqbal Hussain: The Price of Love

Carys Crossen: The Perils of Vampire Hunting in Limerick, Ireland

Martha Lane: Competition Five Winning Story: 2He

Kate Axeford: Competition Five Highly Commended: Guilty

Rachel O'Cleary: Competition Five Highly Commended: Night is an Unbroken Line

Daniel Guy Baldwin: Competition Five Shortlisted: The Physics of Attraction

Stewart McKay: Competition Five Shortlisted: Tiny Pieces of Sky

SJ Townend: Some fruit are hermaphrodite, some people are wankers

Samuel Skuse: The Cottage Looked Over the Graveyard

Jane Broughton: Five Minutes More

Robert Keal: Night Light

Zaqary Anderson: The Clown Machine

Adam Staten: The Chocolate Frog Bandits

Hugh Cartwright: Sudden Death

Alejandro Gonzales: Dear Delilah

Roger Haydon: Pigeons are easy

Martha Lane: Losing Count in KS1

Salvatore Difalco: Constancy

Leela Soma: Ayah’s Home

E. Nolan: Other Places, Other Events, Other Answers

Dorcas Wilson: The Assistant

Amy Byrne: Words On a Plane

Robert Kostanczuk: Bye, Corner Grocery Store

Josh Dale: The Keyring

Nikki Williams: Prognosis

Kay Medway: A Sisterly Home

Kate MacDonald: A Reflection

Izabela Ilowska: Less Final

Jacqui Pack: Riding High

Michael James: Making the Most of it

Thaddeus Rutkowski: Kangaroo Court

Hannah Kuhn: Purgatory

Thomas Morgan: When The Day Came

Rose Rae: Saturn’s Rain

Stephen Page: In Florida

Rebecca Kinnarney: Three Decades of Reflection

Jane Broughton: Breathtaking – For One Night Only

Amy Byrne: The Unfortunate Wonderer

Leonard Kress: Feast of Leviathan

Rosaleen Lynch: Competition Four Winning Story: Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family

Anne Howkins: Competition Four Highly Commended: The Things We Count On

J M Curry: Competition Four Highly Commended: The Singing Bones

Martha Lane: Competition Four Shortlisted: Trespassing with Mum

Matthew Norton: Competition Four Shortlisted: Swash/Backswash

M.E. Proctor: Queenie

Sarah Reid: A Catastrophic Day

Kim Sheridan: A Model Life

Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon: Starting Over

Anita Lekic: Loyalty

Gina Headden: That’s What Families Do

Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar: Baby on Board

Chella Courington: What Now?

Mike Hickman: Barry Takes Flight

Jaycee Durand: Nightmare Ride

Renee Peace-Miller: Surgical Intervention

Jane Broughton: Once upon a time

Karen Southall Watts: Grandma

Don Tassone: Thinly Veiled Anger

Paul Beckman: Emma Day

Roopa Raveendran-Menon: The Plan

Jamie Etheridge: Pinky, Blinky, Inky and Clyde

Peter Hempel: The Doctor Is Not In

Katharine Shelley Kirton: Of Shortbread and Choices

Katie Murray: Self-Portrait

Anne Goodwin: Dark roots

Cath Barton: Just a Bird

Don Nigroni: An Urgent Message

Yvonne Remington: The Unforgiven Sin

Robert Fairbrother: Mall Content

Marcelo Medone: Sleepless Night

Sam Howroyd: The Glittering World

Abi Hennig: Competition Three Winning Story: The last wolf in Brighton’s in the prize booth on the pier

Martha Lane: Competition Three Highly Commended: The octopus, the leopard, and the lyre

Adele Evershed: Competition Three Highly Commended: She’ll Grow Out Of It

Brid McGinley: Competition Three Shortlisted: Halfway Up the Stairs

Linda Daunter: Competition Three Shortlisted: Answers

Cathy Lennon: Housebound

Lyn Gould: The Wood

Sven Camrath: A Nightmare

Martha Lane: Summer fete

Susan DeFelice: His Time

Joan Leotta: Where Did My Friend, Hawk Go?

Andrew Deathe: The Angle of Vision

Dominique Gracia: Sweet or sharp

David Silver: Is it a Bird? Yes, it’s a Bird

Katie Murray: Squandered Love

Albert Tucher: The Complaint Department

Yvonne Clarke: Beating About The Bush

Don Tassone: The Strain

Jason Sprinkle: Freedom to Move

Alex Antiuk: The Potato

Paul Germano: Incident in the Snow

Brianna Di Monda: Made of Water

Nam Tran: Wilderness Training

David Henson: The Woman and the Tiger

Mel Black: You Were Never Really There

Kelli Lage: Smoke

Kieran Wyatt: Pooch

Rosie: Wishing on Black Holes

Pam Knapp: Drama Queen

Jacqueline Doyle: Easy Street

Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon: Happy Days

Emma Nokes: So Close…

Hazel Turner: A single white rose

Shane O'Neill: Bobbing Boats

Esther Amis-Hughes: Safe Not Safe

Niles Reddick: High Dive

Keith Hoerner: The Skeleton Key

Sarah Donnelly: Thy Will won’t Be Done

Chris Cocca: Two-Minute Warning (I Must Decrease)

Hazel Turner: Competition Two Winning Story: I hate windows

Martha Lane: Competition Two Highly Commended: In an unwashed t-shirt, bought from a charity shop without checking the pattern or condition, a greetings card writer watches nature documentaries

Kate Simblet: Competition Two Highly Commended: Eternal

Alyssa Bushell: Competition Two Shortlisted: There’s a Fist-Sized Hole in the Kitchen Window

Michael Rush: Competition Two Shortlisted: The Whispering Garden

Rose McMackin: Golden Boy

Kris McGinnis: Do Wha’ Ye Wants Cause A Pirate Be Free

E. F. S. Byrne: The Eve of Destruction

Don Tassone: Regret

Katherine Gleason: Second Period Savior

Adele Evershed: Maybe I Give A Damn

Keith Hoerner: Into the Ether

Geraldine McCarthy: Breathe it all in

Anna B. Moore: Getting Started in Florida, 1984

Suzanne Richardson: The Price of Art School

Chris Lee: Snow

Curtis Ippolito: Hawk Sighting

Karen Southall Watts: Power Source

Justin Jahnke: Missing Persons

Linda McMullen: On Another Planet

Paul Beckman: No Tchotchkes for Tanta Trudy

Lorette C. Luzajic: Sweet and Sour

Andrena Zawinski: Chérie

Amanda Ingram: Break time

Steve Bates: The Gift

Swati Agrawal: Not Just Brown Eyes

Lisa Lerma Weber: The Snowman

Jennifer Lai: Taking the whip

Vic Nogay: A Mother Eats

Derek McMillan: Blackridge

Priscilla K. Garatti: Night Maps

Bobby Gant: Magic Marlon

Ruth Skrine: searching for a habitat that fits

Dan Crawley: A Tight Fit

Chella Courington: The Time of Your Life

Darrell Petska: Rage and Jam

Emma Robertson: Spiders at the Crematorium

Steve Bates: The Ogre

Roger Haydon: Christmas games below the line

Dave Gregory: Expect Larry Jeremiah To Lose His Temper Again This Christmas

Hank Kirton: Slide

Sue Millett: Shooting Stars

Lauren Davila: Ita

Charles Prelle: Great Maiden’s Blush

Katie Burgess: Shotgun

David Henson: The Dark Hole

Denise Mills: Telegraph Poles

Ivan Ruccione: Stretch marks

Nicholas Schroeder: Enigmas

Amy O'Neil: Competition One Winning Story: Every Thing We Own

Martha Lane: Competition One Shortlisted: The lists this woman could write if her scoundrel dad hadn’t smoked away all her money for pencils

Sheree Shatsky: Competition One Shortlisted: Floor Wax

Sarah Grant: Competition One Highly Commended: Evaporation

Daniel Guy Baldwin: Competition One Highly Commended: Don’t Fall In Love With Me

Nate Hoil: Nothing bad occurs ever again

Yash Seyedbagheri: Picking Kernels

Karen Southall Watts: Escape

Mitchell Duran: The Rock

Helen Kreeger: None of My Business

Julian Mitchell: So The Story Goes

Ran Walker: Apocalyptic Ambivalence

K.M. Sheets: Grief

Stephen J. Golds: A Bullet in the Guts

Mehreen Ahmed: Sparky

Keith Langston: Bentley

Shawn Berman: MICHAEL BAY PRESENTS A MOVIE ABOUT A MURDER HORNET

J.L. Harland: Double Life

Patrick Nevins: Pareidolia

Damon McKinney: 407 Kierson Lane

Anne Goodwin: Because Bellyache

Stevie Adler: Everyone Needs Grandparents

Wilson Koewing: Elevator

David Lewis Pogson: The Seat at the Edge of the World

John Lane: To Chairman of White Star Line

Karen Walker: Mom with brownies

Anne Goodwin: Bridging

Justin Deming: The World is Ending and I Forgot My Grocery List

J. Bradley: Pretty

Paul McDonald: To Boldly Go

Yash Seyedbagheri: Care

Paul Beckman: CodeCode My World

Maria S Picone: Snapshot

E. E. Rhodes: Things I Missed When The Internet Was Down

Robert Boucheron: Jokesmith

Mehreen Ahmed: Wait for the Next Rain

Emma Lee: Prayer from a Lifeboat

E. F. S. Byrne: Beached

Sean Ennis: The Needles

Zach Murphy: In Rotation

Robert Boucheron: Store Policy

Clarrie Rose: Bluebells

Kate Miller: Checkmate

Tom O’Brien: Reason For Delay?

Flash A/V

Paul Beckman: CodeCode My World by Paul Beckman

Mehreen Ahmed: Lungs written by Mehreen Ahmed. Read by Brena Mercer

Katey Schultz: Writing Flash Fiction with Katey Schultz