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Micro Fiction Writing Competition Winners: S2 Round 3

Congrats to the winners of series 2, round 1 of the MLS micro fiction writing competition!

Chocolate in Summer: A Short Story.

Seated at the grand piano, Margot became the woman she might have been rather than the one she was. Gone was the carping woman craving her headache pills; in her place was a maestro.

‘Oh, how wonderful. You’ll have some help,’ people cooed when I muttered through clenched teeth that my mother-in-law was coming to stay. How they thought it was helpful to be driving over a hundred and fifty miles to the airport, with a two-month old breast-feeding baby in tow, I couldn’t imagine.

Micro Fiction Writing Competition Winners: Round 5

Micro Fiction Writing Competition Winners: Round 5

Congrats to the winners of Round 5!