Here is one of the 12 bonus prize-winning flash fictions included in the brand new FUEL ebook – published on 1st October 2025!
Nine One One
Sarah Freligh, winner, 2025 Welkin Mini Prize
The birds in my head are yakking again so I ask the orderly to give me something please that will shut them up please but he says honey you know I can’t so the birds go on flapping like they do when something terrible is about to happen only there’s no window to slip out of like the man did the woman did they held hands they did I saw them step into thin air and fly like birds from a fire a big squawk of them lifting off and flapping their useless wings all those people trying to fly.