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

The finalists for May were:

Hitchhiker by Hannah Whiteoak
Fired by Anna Sanderson
Close by Lex T. Lindsay
Forgotten by Trisha Ridinger McKee

The winner of the May 2019 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Forgotten

What a strong crop of stories we had in May… But Trisha’s piece generated such a strong response from both me and the wider audience that she managed to edge out the competition.