Many thanks to everyone who submitted a story this month inspired by the prompt word ROSE.
We received 59 entries so the cash prizes are £64 for first place and £43 for second. The People’s Prize will be revealed when we have the final results.
Congrats to the writers of the following stories that have gone through to the next round. Keep shtum though if your story is here as we can’t know who has written what!
Longlisted Stories
At Last
Blooming Roses
Don't take away the last eleven years, four months, and nine days from me
John Lennon distracts you from inviting a girl to the school disco
Kalaakaari Haath
Magnificent Cure for Insomnia
My Rose In The Hospice Garden
Reaction
Rose is Wearing Her Birthday Suit for a Midnight Date at the Car Wash
Serene efficacy
Sod sweetness; thorns are my thing
The Collector
The Dead
The Perfumer's Wife
The Unmade Bed of Roses
Visits to my Aunt
What Rose did with her blue paste stone necklace (which cost her lover £2 at a car boot sale) on the ferry to a new life
Good luck for the next round everyone!