Thank you once again to Susmita Bhattacharya for providing this month’s prompt. You can read Susmita’s stories in two of our anthologies: Nothing Is As It Was and our latest charity anthology, No Good Deed.

We received 85 entries so the winner will receive £170 and a free entry to the annual Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize. The runner-up will get a free entry too, plus both stories will be published in the Flash Fiction section of our website.

The final ten will be published next Monday with public voting opening at the same time.

All readings and votes are anonymous so writers if you are on this longlist, please do not tell anyone which story is yours.

Thank you to all who submitted and congrats if you made the longlist!

Longlist:

• A Birthday Wish
• An Exquisite Pain
• But I’m…
• Button, Shell, Cork
• Diary Entry: The Presents Keep Coming
• Disappointment tastes sweet like sugar
• Forgive Me Father For I Have…
• Frosting Trails
• Fury
• Hide and Seek
• Monochrome Memories
• Negative
• Playthings
• Prayer Alone Isn’t Enough
• Safety in Numbers
• Sweet Dreams
• The Destiny of Cake
• The Making of a Monster
• Unlit Candles
• When the last Flame is Blown
• White Wedding

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Thank you once again to Joanna Campbell for providing this month’s prompt. You can read Joanna’s stories in our three annual anthologies: What Was Left, Impermanent Facts, and Future Shock. As well as in No Good Deed, our charity anthology published on 7th November 2019.

We received 95 entries so the winner will receive £190 and a free entry to the annual Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize. The runner-up will get a free entry too, plus both stories will be published in the Flash Fiction section of our website.

The final ten will be published next Monday with public voting opening at the same time.

All readings and votes are anonymous so writers if you are on this longlist, please do not tell anyone which story is yours.

Thank you to all who submitted and congrats if you made the longlist!

Longlist:

• A Journey Through Lung Cancer Distilled into a Hundred Carefully Chosen Words and Silences
• Bearings
• Empty
• Eradicating Common Pests
• Escape
• Fire Ants
• For I’m the Tip of His Long White Cane
• Frayed
• Freckles
• Going the Distance
• Greased Lightning
• Here, in the field
• Hinterland
• In the Silence
• Intersect
• Life Bearings
• Lost
• Lost and Found
• Lost in America
• Lost in the Fog
• Make or Break Getaway
• Man’s Best Friend
• Never Fall for a Weather God
• Repair
• Save the Bears
• Sunday Morning in the Neighborhood
• Sweet and Cool
• The Lighthouse
• The Lights
• The Way Home
• Vessel
• What we lose
• You Always Loved the Circus

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First off, thank you to Sophie Jonas-Hill for her mystical artwork. Sophie is a writer and illustrator, and Retreat West Books will be publishing her forthcoming Unprotected in November. You can follow her on Twitter.

We received 104 entries so the winner will receive £208 and a free entry to the annual Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize. The runner-up will get a free entry too, plus both stories will be published in the Flash Fiction section of our website.

The final ten will be published next Monday with public voting opening at the same time.

All readings and votes are anonymous so writers if you are on this longlist, please do not tell anyone which story is yours.

Thank you to all who submitted and congrats if you made the longlist!

Longlist:

• A Family Portrait
• A Hallowe’en Surprise
• Ash and cinder
• Bare Trees
• Black Swan
• Chimera
• Computer-in-Chief
• Disquiet
• In His Mind, Autumn
• In Search of Alice
• Invisible
• Life Abound
• Lonely Mother
• Notes
• Payback
• Reflections on Alice
• The BaoBhan Sith
• The Fate of Small Creatures
• The Lake
• The Lepus Hadn’t Come
• The Meeting
• The Test
• Turning Mermaid
• Uncharted
• Visiting Home
• When the Party’s Over
• Without You

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Once again, we’ve had a great mix of stories to choose from, so well done to all!

We received 108 entries so the winner will receive £216 and a free entry to the annual Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize. The runner-up will get a free entry too, plus both stories will be published in the Flash Fiction section of our website.

The final ten will be published next Monday with public voting opening at the same time.

All readings and votes are anonymous so writers if you are on this longlist, please do not tell anyone which story is yours.

Thank you to all who submitted and congrats if you made the longlist!

Longlist:

• A Sweet Mistake
• A Tinder Kinda Love
• Chimera
• Choices
• Falling In. Falling Out.
• How to Boil an Egg
• I went wrong at 1
• Ice Cream
• In Their Childhood Garden
• Lists
• Lunch in Llandudno
• Making Friendship Fly Again
• March Afternoon, Twilight Falling
• Pinhead, Marble, Snooker Ball
• Reality Raw
• Taste the Rainbow
• The flame
• The scream
• There Must Be A Better Word For It
• Time’s up, sugar
• Tin Man
• Unbridled Spirits
• When I Remember Sally September
• When Mummy taught her daughter how to make a Fortune Teller and lived to regret it

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