The results are in!
‘Peace’ – the theme for Shoreline of Infinity’s flash fiction competition 2025.
Winning story:
Eternal Peace, by Jadie Bea
Runners up:
Peace is the Absence of Error by Franki Halliwell
Tall Tales at Vent Camp by Scott Payne
Highly commended
The Peace Gardens by Raymond Brunell
The Garden at the Edge of the Universe by Uzma
Tranquillity Tales by James Cleary
We set a tough challenge this year: Peace.
We were pleasantly surprised to see so many writers looking to a peaceful future, rather than a dystopian enforced calm. Eternal Peace is a neat use of a time-machine and a coffee shop to do the necessary; Peace is the Absence of Error is the warning of the dystopian pseudo peace we could be heading towards. Tall Tales takes us back to where we came from – a long way back, but it sounds good to me.
Gardens cropped up a lot, and these two highly commended stories were the pick of those. Tranquility Tales is the long-sought answer to the problem we all suffer in our manically busy world swirling all around us: “Gie us peace!”
Congratulations to Jadie Bea, Franki Halliwell and Scott Payne, whose stories are published on our website (links above) and will be published in Shoreline of Infinity 40.
And well done to everyone who entered – you’re all heroes and peacemakers.