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

The finalists for September were:

The Return by Bob Thurber
Scent of Tears by Katherine Darlington
Fuzzy Blue Socks by Madelyn Markman
Moment by Fiona Kamal

The winner of the September 2021 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Moment

I’m a big fan of this story’s juxtaposition of a touchingly cute moment against the sense of real beauty and loss.