Wish Upon a star

Susan Rocks lives in East Dorset and has had several short stories published both online and in print. Last year, Susan was longlisted for the Penguin/Random House writenow2020 competition and is busy editing her first novel, The Butterfly Effect, whilst plucking up the courage to finally submit to agents._ She is also writing the first draft of her second novel. This is her second Writing Magazine competition win and can confirm this win is equally as exciting as the first. She can be found on Twitter @SusanRocks3.

FIRST PLACE £100

Do you remember the night we saw the shooting star?

I throw the blue biro down; of course Jake remembers. Screwing up the scrap of paper, torn from an old school notebook, I aim it at the bin two metres away on the other side of our studio apartment (meaning bedsit), that’s been home for the last year.

Perhaps I should go without leaving a note; I owe him more than that though, after everything he’s done for