500 WORD STORY COMPETITION
How Tina Turner
turned it round for Doreen
by Sally Curtis
FIRST PLACE £200
Sally Curtis is a primary school teacher from Poole, and a qualified hypnotherapist who likes to dabble in a bit of tarot for friends.
She began writing short stories as a kickstart to finishing the pile of started novels,
but liked the form so much that the novels remain uncompleted. She wrote Doreen in the hope of putting a smile on people’s faces, thinking we could all do with a laugh. This is her first ever win.
Doreen was an exotic dancer at the Melrose Home for the Elderly. She performed Tuesdays and Thursdays after tea, with a matinee every third Saturday. She couldn’t manage more as, along with her grumbling varicose veins giving her an unsightly lumpy left leg, her muscles were beginning to complain under the growing strain.