First, a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who entered the contest! Guest judge Cassandra Hamm and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the entries. I highly encourage you all to enter again during the next flash fiction contest, date to be announced.
Now, without further ado…*drumroll*
Congratulations to Brittany Eden for winning The Unicorn Writer’s Third Flash Fiction Contest!
Brittany’s fascination with Wonderland may have given her the courage to exclusively use a sparkly Cinderella book bag while completing her First Class Honors degree in Greek & Roman Civilization and Political Science at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She’s traveled to over twenty-five countries and has walked the Great Wall of China in Beijing, the Acropolis in Athens, Table Mountain in Cape Town, and Ipanema in Rio. She also once lived in a Circus.
You can find Brittany drinking tea, reading, and chasing her three kids, usually at the same time. If that fails, you’ll find her writing starcrossed romance with timeless endings or on Instagram oversharing pictures of the scenery around her and her husband’s home in Vancouver, Canada, and commenting passionately about C.S. Lewis, K-Dramas, Wonder Woman, Bournville chocolate, and Irish tea.
Read Brittany’s winning piece below!
“Thirst”
Was that the moon still ever shining
Above this wretched wasteland hoping
Thus far regret, no rain descend
No drops or hint of any end
My heart—it broke by arrow, bow
The sky a blue-toned jewel aglow
And beating like a drum, dreams
Awakened day, soon future seems
Pattering songs since eternity
Sapphire downpours infinity
To thwart the drought I raised my hand
I prayed amid the sun-scorched sand
The light betrayed our greater need
For flooding streams, for heavenly seed
Is it my heart or the expanse
Horizon stretched by loss—a dance
Is there an enemy, or just inside
A desert with nowhere to hide
The rays of light, the kiss of night
Both dawn and sunset feel too bright
If I could gaze beyond and see
A storm cloud destiny, a sea
A healing rain, a history
Sundrop soon sweet victory
Jewels soared behind my shut eyes
Dream ended with a heaving sigh
The skies will bleed a river free
A holy shower for you and me
I felt alone, lost trail a mess
Yet forward pressed, through wilderness
Diamond starlit fire by night
Hasty dayclouds ‘ere in sight
A call was heard above the dunes
A ringing more than ancient runes
Shrill lonely horn and fractured lie
Sojourning souls not left to die
Followed a sound, a seed like hope
One dared to do much more than cope
The fiery heat, the narrow road
The bearing of a heavy load
The journey on this sparkling sand
Called love or life—I raised my hand
Again, because I saw a form
A figure, healer, through the storm
On long-awaited clouds he’d come
To wet and wash the feet of some
Who chose to cross far desert road
How tortuously was there a load
But then the man who sailed the storm
From where the scent of rain was torn
And future hoping less a dare
My dreary desert seemed more fair
That I would leave it some way soon
So soft the hurt of waning moon
Unless the rain-King reached it first
This soul to drink and forget thirst
The parched heart heat, a dusty swirl
A new world would at last unfurl
These souls beneath a raging sea
No longer ‘fraid or far, in He.
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