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

The finalists for August were:

Omiage by Meredith
The Offering by Nina Basu
Rough and Tumble by Steven Lemprière
The Taste of Forgetting by A.J. Joseph
Skyward by John Singh
Birralyn means the sparks of the banksia over there by Fiona H. Evans
The Power of Touch by Lilian Pomeroy Edmonds

The winner of the August 2025 Story of the Month is…

Omiage