All short stories and poems are now on display here at Glasgow Women’s Library. Why not come in, sit down with a cup of tea and read some of the wonderful entries we received.
And here are today’s snippets – two more entries that made the shortlist.
The highlight of their lives was a wake: anyone’s wake. They would make sincere enquiries – suppressing any tone of excitement – of friends and relatives who were galloping towards old age.
from A CAMEO by Kriss Macca (shortlisted story)
We shuffle through like a shunting train of human freight, and out into sharp morning light.
from STILL IN PURSUIT OF MUIR by Anna Dickie (shortlisted poem)
