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They hadn’t dived for a week. And then I got the call. We crowded into the cabin around the small screen, like one of those ultrasound pictures fathers carry in their wallets. We followed their dive. Then the lead bull bellowed and they stopped. Coruscated leviathans, suspended infinity. We watched as the bull turned, swam back up to the immature male, and pushed the camera off its back. The sonar blipped. And then nothing. We watched light swim into the camera as it floated to the surface.
Extract from ‘Pod’ by Alex Lockwood.
Pod and more short fiction contains the winning entries from our 2010 Nano-Fiction and Micro-Fiction competitions: a bumper collection of delectable bite-sized literary morsels about everything from whales to grave-robbers via men who remind you of isosceles triangles and the death of JG Ballard. Enjoy.
Winners
‘Pod’ by Alex Lockwood
‘My Daddy’ by Claire Trévien
Runners-up
‘conversation four (or, looking for right angles)’ by Amy Mackelden
‘Elsewhere’ by Cath Barton
Commended
‘The Day Ballard Died’ by Gary Budden
‘Fear’ by Stacey Faulkner
‘Sunk’ by Catherine Fereday Eshete
‘Vigil’ by Joanne Fox
‘Show Me Stars’ and ‘Not a Scratch’ by Brian George
‘Cerri and Kalvin’ and ‘Bob and Michael’ by Emma Hardy
‘They Don’t Teach You This at School’ by J.P.L. Hobart
‘Old Man Walberswick's Caravan’ by Harriet Hughes
‘ Bunkered’ by Tommi Kakko
‘he’s just not that into anyone’ and ‘avenues’ by Amy Mackelden
‘The Astronaut’ by Leanne Moden
‘Letter’ and ‘Texts’ by Stefan Mohamed
‘What She Found’ by Jez Noond
‘The Lord's Work’ by Pervez Rizvi
‘Father Finnerty and Sister Agnes’ by Ken Rogan
‘Housework’ by Pam Upton
‘The Summary of Love’ by Laura Villis
‘Clichéd’ by Carmen Ali
‘Cultural Exchange’ by Celia Kay Andrew
‘Petersville’ by Amanda Bartlett
‘Death by Chocolate’ by Rita Crampton
‘Marinate Retard Inc?’ by Rebecca Dempsey
‘Noises in the Dark’ by Elizabeth Ducie
‘Marriage’ by Rita Elliott
‘Origins’ by Carrie Etter
‘Swapping Shifts’ by Richard Farrage
‘Unfazed’ by Catherine Fereday Eshete
‘All Is Well In the Morning’ by Bronwen Harman Jones
‘After the Storm’ by Karen Harvey
‘Robert’ by Gillian Hesketh
‘Going Back’ by Pamela Hibbert‘Postcard’ by Charlotte Judet
‘Hair’ by Eileen Keane
‘Butter pear or alligator’ by Amy Mackelden
‘Death and Life’ by Helena Mallett
‘Kiss’ by Liz Martinez‘The Case Against the War’ by HarryMcDonald
‘The End of his Reign’ by Petra McQueen
‘Put Yourself in My Shoes’ by Jenny Morris
‘Hitching’ by Gail Mosley
‘Old Enough to Know Better’ by Helen Perry
‘Sundowner’ by Clare Reddaway
‘I wouldn't exactly say the catfish won but’ by Andy Rigley
‘Tiling a Bathroom’ by Andy Rigley
‘Snakes and Ladders’ by Lauren Rogers
‘Holiday Inn’ by Glen Scrymgeour‘Perspective’ by John Seed
‘Deadheading’ by Krystyna Smallman
‘A Yellow Mug’ by P.M. Smith
‘Summary’ by Sarah Smith
‘Bless Me Father’ by Tish M. Valva
‘Rituals’ by Nacho Vinuela