Maggie Shaw lived below a bleak escarpment, hard against an unforgiving sky. A sore rib jutting from the Pennines, a shaper of winds. A place where Judas might have hanged himself. A place where ravens come to die. She was born there, helpless as any child. She lived and died by candlelight, departing as sheContinue reading “Third Place: Beneath the Judas Hill by Glyn Matthews”
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Third Place: More Sky Than Anywhere by Chris Cottom
By the morning, the storm has blown itself out but left the village with no electricity. We wrap up and stroll down the hill to the ramshackle barn where, in faded black paint, a sign proclaims ‘Veg in Shed’. I point out the cluster of nests under the eaves and you tell me to expectContinue reading “Third Place: More Sky Than Anywhere by Chris Cottom”
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 