Today's shortlisted story is "We built a time machine in your ward" by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social. Congratulations, James. A poignant piece that swirls through time in such a clever way:
https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize/shortlist-25#time-machine
https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize/shortlist-25#time-machine
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Or a detective story in micro?
Or a slash-metal steampunk retelling of the Princess and the Pea.
Or a ghost story set in the fissure between millenia.
Preferably all of these things...
You can have these cooked up by the end of the month, right?
a story where you make me care about a dung beetle
a historical piece about the Chatsworth banana tree
a punk opera retelling of "My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes"
and a flash-in-limericks about a cloud called Blob