Winners/Highly Commended
Results from the most recent competition. Many past winners and Highly Commended stories feature in the WriteTime Anthologies
Latest Winner
A Watcher
By John Carmichael
The first draw of a skinny cigarette burned the back of her throat, and her hand quickly wafted the wisps of thin exhaled smoke towards the open kitchen window she sat beside. She tightened as she caught herself going through the motion. The last ember of tobacco was extinguished among the stub marks of a hundred other cigarettes on the sooty stone windowsill. She pinged the dead butt from the third floor.
“Is that you smoking again?”
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Runners-Up
By Gayle Beveridge
Dear Mama,
I hope you don’t mind me calling you Mama. David always says he wants us to be one big family now we’re married. I guess he just wants me to love you as much as he does. In fact, Mama, he never stops talking about you. Why, there has been barely a moment on our honeymoon that he hasn’t taken the time to explain to me how I can do things better, the way you do. I’ve been learning to fold his clothes the way you do, make the bed the way you do, mix his drinks the way you do.
By Stan Riley
Three women are sitting together in a pub. “I had a bit of a weird one the other night. Right strange, he was,” says the first one, the youngest.
“Strange how?” asks the second.
“Well, I’m upstairs in the room, and he comes in and shuts the door. But when he turns round and looks at me, he kind of stops and jerks back, as if he’s had a bit of a shock. So I says to him, It’s all right, darling, you’ll be okay. No need to be scared.
Highly Commended stories
Another nine stories have been recognised as Highly Commended
from the latest competition. For full details, and info about how to
get brief feedback on your story free of charge, see here.
