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TRICIA LOWTHER: Lost and Found

Artistic, Submissions, ,

Charlie’s been rummaging through Great-Aunt Mary’s button box.

He holds a coin aloft. “I found treasure, Mummy!”

I take it, caress the inscription around the edge. Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, 1914. Mary’s father died at the Somme, when she was two.

Charlie shimmers expectantly.

“Yes,” I say, throat tight. “You did.”

Tricia Lowther’s flash fiction, short stories, and poetry have won or been placed in several competitions and been published in Writer’s Forum magazine, Mslexia, and Brilliant Flash Fiction amongst others. Tricia was an award winner in the UK’s Creative Future Literary Awards 2017. Find her on Twitter.

JULIA VAUGHAN: Communication

Submissions, Touching, , ,

The telegram crumpled in her hand.

BILLY MACALISTER. KILLED IN ACTION.

Hottest September day of 1915. She walked to the oak tree, picked the strongest branch, threw the rope. She didn’t hear the other Mrs William Macalister hammering at the door, clutching the wrong telegram.

BILLY MACALISTER. WOUNDED. COMING HOME.

Julia Vaughan is a fifty-something writer living in Ironbridge, Shropshire with cats, dogs and a grumpy husband. She has been writing stories since forever and has just published her first book of crime and mystery stories on Amazon Kindle: Grave Expectations & Other Tales.