Story and Poem of the Month

Our Story and Poem of the Month for May have very kindly been chosen by Simon Barget. Here's what he picked:

 

 

 

 

Story was easy with Sean McNulty’s Phantosmia head and shoulders above the rest -- there’s a pun in there somewhere. 

 

 

The lack of stiff competition lends an honorary mention to one more of his Moloney/Elder flights/forays: The Eerie Nerve.

 

 

Other honourable mentions are Alabaster Conjugal by Mark Burrow, happy to do its own thing;

 

 

and I also liked reading Jeand’s experiences with cancer and hospital visits, particularly Janus 13:

 

 

Poem was closer to call but I really liked Jane Hyphen’s If I can get through this day - authentic and accessible. It moved me.

 

 

Close second is Old P by Kilb50, loose, long and rambling