Winners

  • The Algorithm Doesn’t Cry

    The Algorithm Doesn’t Cry

    Tim Collyer

    A mother fights for her son’s survival in a system that values efficiency over love, beauty, or humanity. Read more

  • I Am Not Lying

    I Am Not Lying

    Ismael Hussein

    Am I disloyal or delusional? I cannot say. Both torment me deeply. I have been unfaithful, yes, but not in the way you might think. I never wanted to cheat on my wife. I am not lying. And still I think, what’s worse: to endure pain in the name of love, or cause it in… Read more

  • Small Spaces

    Small Spaces

    T. J. Prendergast

    Duggan had just begun to slide into a half-sleep when they brought the man into the cell. He pushed his head up and watched the constables haul his new roommate in just as they had done to him hours earlier. In the dim light that fell through from the corridor into the open room, Duggan… Read more

  • Last Orders at the Quantum Arms

    Last Orders at the Quantum Arms

    Tim Collyer

    The night I discovered every pub in England was the same pub, I was nursing my third pint of bitter and watching Margaret Whitmore fade away one memory at a time—though I didn’t yet understand I was fading too.She’d been coming here since 1953, she told me between sips of her usual gin and tonic,… Read more

  • Mud

    Mud

    P. Sidiropoulos

    In a dreamlike scenario, water transforms into a destructive force, submerging the landscape and altering reality. As chaos ensues, survivors adapt to a new life precariously suspended above mud, facing existential challenges. Read more

  • The Florist

    The Florist

    Anji Brown

    Brenda and Jenny navigate memories of loss and familial relationships, as Jenny contemplates a future beyond her mother’s declining health. Read more