Toe ing the L ine
FIRST PLACE £200
Born in North Yorkshire, Lee Irving is a part-time History Teacher living in Oxfordshire. When he isn’t cycling or teaching, he can usually be found writing, whether it be micro-fiction, full-length novels or everything that lies in between. Gratitude won the March 2022 #FlashFiction101 competition, and Assisted Suicide has just been published in the Anansi Archive’s anthology Gambles and Balances. He really enjoyed the dialogue-only challenge, and he is delighted with his first win for Writing Magazine.
Read the judges’ comments at http://writ.rs/wmjuly22
What are you doing that for?
Doing what for?
Taking off your shorts.
Why shouldn’t I take off my shorts?
There’s people.
I know there’s people.
But that man’s watching.
So, let him watch.
He can see your pants.
They’re not my pants.
Yes, they are.
No, they’re not.
Yes. They. Are.
No: they are my bikini bottoms.
Well, whatever they are, it’s rude.
