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Shortlisted flash story (and WINNER) Isolation theme: Dust
The alarming alterations – and unalterable sameness – of existence under Covid restrictions.
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Shortlisted flash story Isolation theme: Pasodoble for One
An accident is averted during a lockdown dance
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Post-Postcards
A fail-safe remedy for the solitude of isolation.
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Shortlisted flash story Isolation theme: Cut Common
A musician finds herself in the stillness between music and lovers
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#FlashFriday, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, ff
Mimicha
A young Moroccan woman corresponds with her mother during lockdown.
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Brothers
A story of an investigation into a suppressed past and a shocking discovery of a nasty secret, regarding abuse and ruin.
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The Queen
A husband observes his wife’s poignant form of suffering.
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Fever
An evocation of the destructive hunger that pulls men to the Amazon.
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The Cure to Loneliness
How to pass time with the ponderous over-thinking of being alone.
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Monstrosity
An observer wonders about the monstrosities that men worship
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Best Job
Every time I stride into the Green Room after the Leader speaks, I’m met with envious looks from lesser Lie-Makers. The “We’ve Got the Best People” guy with the bad ...
#FlashFriday, Editor's Pick, ff
Live and let live
How to deal with inconsiderate neighbours. In one chilling step
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Danse Macabre
An act of vandalism is woven into the danse macabre of five lives
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Anton
Behind our parents’ dresser, my sister finds a photograph along with a bunch of old papers in an orange plastic folder.
“Oh my God,” she says. “It’s Anton.”
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That Fall, the Things that Died
A sombre list of everyday leavings
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Queen
The things that happened today; and the merciless voice in the mirror
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Long-Drive Wistful
The intricate sensations of coupling
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The Family Friend
“Happiness. It’s a state of euphoria, wouldn’t you say?” one of Carlos’s children said.
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The Path of the Ice Wolf
A timely reminder of man’s belittlement before the resounding complexity of the natural world (with Spanish translation)
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To Be or Not
The bloody revolt of the body that is a woman’s miscarriage
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