The Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition

. . . For short stories incorporating a supernatural theme or element. Competition was fierce, but in our (admittedly subjective) opinion these four stories rose to the top. For your reading pleasure we now list them here, with helpful links. The honorable mentions are not ranked, and are listed in no particular order.

Winner: “The Barnyard and the Graveyard” by Maureen McEly: A stressed-out woman driving past an expansive cemetery with a car full of kids and a head full of worries picks up an unusual but helpful hitchhiker.

Honorable Mention: “Night Marcher” by Michael Kaukeano Sonray-Kelly: A deadbeat dad long thought dead returns to haunt a young man living rough on the streets of a Hawaiian city.

Honorable Mention: “Ghost Story” by Isobel Oliphant: Is there sex after death? The author imagines an answer.

Honorable Mention: “Beat the Devil” by Mona Susan Power: In this humorous piece, A Native American deity must do battle with Satan after some wayward kids get naked and lure the old devil up through the broken floor of an abandoned gymnasium.

Enjoy.