Thank you to all our entrants — the standard was as high as ever this month, and it was a pleasure to read all the entries. Congratulations to everyone whose story made it to the longlist below:

1. A Barbed Wire Tattoo
2. As We Forgive Them That Trespass Against Us
3. Border Crossing
4. Douglas Successfully Does Something That Isn’t Boring
5. Goldie
6. Granny Smith
7. Hidden Messages
8. I am…
9. I am the Astronaut
10. It’s Safe in the Moon
11. Last Week I was Bitten by a Mosquito
12. No Trespassing
13. No Trespassing App: Installation Successful
14. On Hallowed Ground
15. Perotine Massey, Guernsey Martyr, 1556
16. Pray for Silence
17. Run to Earth
18. Scarce as Hen’s Teeth
19. Sometime, the Best Things Feel Like Death
20. Sunday Dinner
21. Texas Holdem
22. The Sign
23. Trespass to the Person
24. Two Ghosts in a Landscape
25. When Mum Holds Hands with the Trespasser

We’ll share the shortlist on Monday 21st September… Watch this space!