Congratulations to student, Sanuli Karunaratne who received an impressive Honourable Mention in Little Stories, Big Ideas recent micro fiction competition.
Her incredible prose/verse moved and impressed the judges, and they loved her creative approach to the competition’s theme of Fear, as well as her beautiful and highly original style.
fingers drag across
skin, nails drawing
stark white lines
fear has made itself
at home, as it aches
in your chest-
tears fall, tracing
a path down clammy
flesh, the salty taste
pangs on cracked lips
it is the witching hour,
the clock has struck
twelve, and the moon
glows from the space
between the rust-ridden
bars of the window-
its half-crescent eye
watching from the
dark, as the blackness
that surrounds
allows it to shine
bright- preying on
fear, on the shrill sound
of a wrenching scream
a stolen, gasping breath
on the sleepless night
it preys.
-la lune, crains-la
