SHORT STORY WINNERS
GAMES NIGHT
RUNNER UP
BY STEVEN BURFORD
Mummy killed Daddy tonight. In the kitchen with a lead pipe.
Then Daddy killed Mummy, in the ballroom with a spanner.
“That’s not how you play the game!” said my sister, Emma.
“Don’t worry, sweetheart,” said Mummy. “Daddy wouldn’t know what to do with a spanner even if you gave him a book called, ‘How to Use a Spanner.’”
“And Mummy hasn’t done anything interesting in a kitchen for years,” said Daddy.
Every Friday night is Games Night. We pull out all the board games, order a takeaway and play for hours. (Daddy always insists on the takeaway. He says that way we can all enjoy the evening. I think he means that Mummy doesn’t have to cook, although she never smiles when he says it.)