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

The finalists for March were:

Wrong Room by Bec Lewis
Holes by Alison Carroll
Winter’s Child by Casey Laine
Offering by Melody Leming-Wilson
Aging by Vernae Coffee

The winner of the March 2020 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Holes

My favourite thing about Alison’s story is how understated and indirect it is, which renders the emotions into something more abstract, difficult to grab onto. I imagine that’s what this level of grief can sometimes feel like, abstract and indirect with moments of sudden, intense clarity that eventually fade back into the abstract.