I’m very proud to have won the New2theScene Members Seasonal Competition 2026 for my short story Iceberg. This explores the loneliness of a bereaved yet cantankerous man at Christmas. You can read it here.
Vicar or not, he won’t spare her blushes. The cat will be out of the bag. He’ll tell her where to go, why he hates her church and happy clappy hangers on and do goodery for undeserving parasites; how that false piety duped his wife, consumed her little life, swallowed up the short time she had on this earth, and for what? What did your god give back when she was on the ward, vomiting yellow bile, coughing blood, agonising about heaven?
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