🌱 Bloom 🌼

This May, StorySloth invites you to submit a story around the theme "Bloom". Take that however you like. A first kiss, a bruise, a revolution, a rumour, a flower, a fever, a friendship that finally opens up after years of being closed. "Bloom" is deliberately open. We're not prescribing a genre, a tone, or a kind of character — we want to see what the word shakes loose in you. Upload literary fiction, horror, sci-fi, romance, fantasy, something that refuses to sit in any one category. What we're looking for is a story that earns its ending, a voice we can't put down, and a use of the prompt that surprises us. Entry is free, the winner takes home a £50 Amazon voucher, two runners-up each receive a £25 Amazon voucher (or equivalent in $ USD).