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FIRST PLACE £200
Helen Beckett lives in Cardiff and likes to include Welsh folklore and the Welsh language in her flash fiction and short stories, a number of which have been shortlisted for competitions. She has been published in several flash fiction anthologies. Helen enjoys writing because it gives her the freedom to assume different characters, be it a child, a ghost, an animal or, as in this story, one of the boys.
To be honest, I’d been scared shitless. Not that I’d ever admit it to this bunch of losers. I was sure they were pranking me, that they had seen him too but had said they hadn’t just to wind me up. The bastards. I drained my pint glass.
‘Slow down, mate,’ Reg said. ‘But if you are getting them in, I’ll have the same.’
Marky and Dan held up their glasses too.
At the bar, I knocked back a double while waiting for
