Micro Fiction Competition: May 2020 Longlist

Thank you to everyone who entered. We received 125 entries this time, and it was a pleasure to read them all.

If your story title appears below, congratulations! Please don’t tell us if you’re longlisted though, as we’re still reading anonymously!

1. Walls
2. 17 Albert Street
3. An Old Woman Lives in That House
4. Baby, it’s Cold Outside
5. Couples Counselling
6. Easy Pickings
7. Final Stop
8. Finding a Way
9. Green Fingers
10. His Guardian Angel
11. Homecoming
12. If Opportunity Knocks
13. Knock Loudly and Wait (1)
14. Knock Loudly and Wait (2)
15. Kursk
16. Rules of Motion
17. Next Door on the Crescent
18. Nobody Home
19. Our Fatal Failing
20. Patient Zero
21. Please Knock Loudly and Wait
22. Purgatory
23. Red Raw Knuckles
24. Reunited
25. Spiders on a Saturday Night
26. Stay Inside
27. Sterile
28. The Disciple
29. The Watcher
30. Thirteen Hours in to a Nine Hour Shift
31. Treasured Rubbish
32. V&A
33. Waiting on the Doorstep

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We’ll announce the shortlist by 18th May… Watch this space, and good luck!