The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for March were:

An Apartment on the Moon by Cathy Ulrich
Luck by Viv Burgess
Inside the Walls of Troy by Bob Thurber
The Diviner by Candace Kubinec

The winner of the March 2016 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Luck

The pair of moments described in this story tell the most succinct parts of a much larger, and very engaging, story. That’s a great thing for a piece of microfiction to accomplish.