This year’s winning story started with a simple premise: sleep is good (Image: Maia Flore/Agence VU/Camera Press)
Congratulations to Richard Clarke, who won the 2012 Â鶹´«Ã½ Flash Fiction competition with a clever work of satire
For this year’s competition, our judge, prizewinning author Alice LaPlante, had her work cut out whittling 130 submissions to a short list of five stories and, finally, this winning entry. “This piece packed a wallop with its economic language and compressed timeline,” LaPlante says. “Starting with a simple premise – sleep is good, more sleep is better – the story used comic…
