100 x 100 Competition Winner
Jo Sadler • 14 June 2020
Winning Entry in our first 100 x 100 Flash Fiction Competition !
I'd like to thank all the entrants in our 100 x 100 competition (and Simon Whaley too for doing the judging!)
Congratulations and the prize of £100 goes to Natasha Derczynski.
Keep a look out for the new 100 x 100 competition starting in July. Here is the winning entry:
Our Cycle
First pee of the day, a hot ten second stream. Dizzying fear then a five-minute countdown.
Minute one. Three years before. The diagnosis. Burying myself in him, grieving for hope, then reviving.
Minute two. Swollen with eggs. A needle. My wall, pierced. Pieces of us incubate together.
Three. It hasn’t worked. Loss, all over again. Another cycle, another failure. Grief onto grief. We are young but dark circles form.
Four. One year to recover, return to one another. Then return to the waiting room, resigned, determined, tired but ready.
Five. Hold up the stick. It’s positive.
Oh God.
How sublime.
The Write Path 2025 anthology is now available in paperback from Amazon, and ebook format from many digital book platforms (including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Everand, Thalia, Smashwords, and many more!). It comprises the winning entries and judges’ reports from our members’-only competitions, along with the first, second, and third place winners of our open poetry and short story competitions, and the winners of our 250-word Spooky flash fiction competition. The ebook version (ISBN: 978-1-7384361-8-7) is priced £2.99, and the paperback version (ISBN: 978-1-7384361-7-0) is £7.99. For more information, click the Books2Read link and then select your preferred retailer: https://books2read.com/twp2025 And if you missed any of the previous anthologies, check out the links below: 2024: https://books2read.com/twp2024 2023: https://books2read.com/twp2023 2022: https://books2read.com/twp2022 2021: https://books2read.com/twp2021 2020: https://books2read.com/twp2020 2019: https://books2read.com/twp2019 My thanks go to everyone on the committee and the judges for their help with gathering everything together to enable me to produce the anthology, and to Liz for her proofreading assistance! Simon Whaley
New 250-word flash fiction competition theme of LOVE - Hurry - closes on 10th February!
Members can go to the Members Only page (you'll need the password) and read stories that were a little too long to fit in the normal Link magazine - see the section marked 'Fiction Special' --> HERE