Jaragua Flash Fiction Competition Winners
Hail the conquering heroes, the unsung sculptors of micro-fiction! Read here the winning entries from the SpinningLizard.co.uk Jaragua Flash Fiction Competition, which began in April 2009. For more details on the competition and the latest competition topic, visit the Forum via the link below.
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Current Competition Topic - 2009/2010
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Latest Winner:
—Quareen, by Louise Higden
Winner June/July 2009. Topic: Creature
Quareen
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In the silence of the night
stole the djinni of delight,
illuminated from within
the djinni slid from her to him
He was sleeping, body sore
From an evening with his whore,
Sticky, loaded with desire
They had made love in dusk like fire.
The creature from the Borderlands
Drank the sweat pooled in his hands
And used its teeth to nip his feet.
It deprived the bed of both its sheets
And contemplated sleeping too,
But there was little else to do;
like a restless saboteur
The djinni slid from him to her.
She was restless 'neath the moon,
Her eyelids moving in the gloom,
Her fingers fastened to the bed
As faceless spirits filled her head.
What could the creature do but leave
With only part their world perceived,
Viewing half the lives they led
And going hungry, then, instead?
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Previous Winners:
—Quareen, by Louise Higden
Winner June/July 2009. Topic: Creature
—Ninja (noun), by Joshua Rainbird
Winner May 2009. Topic: Ninja
—Feeling Rough, by Caroline Callaghan
Winner April 2009. Topic: Lizard