Living Our Dying Writing Competition
I am delighted to have won the writing competition organised by Autumn Voices in partnership with Playspace Publications and Rymour Books and inspired by the Living Our Dying book and project - see https://playspacepublications.com/living-our-dying/ The competition was for a piece of poetry, short story or short memoir of no more than 500 words on the theme of Living Our Dying. My piece - Fleeto's Funeral - won the competition and I was also invited to read a second piece of my writing of my own choice. As the first piece revolved around the death of a goldfish, I chose for my second piece another flash-fiction story about a goldfish! Both stories are replicated below. I hope you enjoy. Fleeto’s Funeral by Tom Langlands It was the death of a goldfish thirty years ago that changed my perception of life and death. Our children were seven and five years old when Fleeto was found floating upside down in the fish-tank. I don’t think it was their first pet to have died but it was