The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for October were:

Before She Was My Mother by Bob Thurber
Tangled Words by Janelle Seabok
What Dew Felt Like by Sarah Grace Tuttle
Nature by Saaiqa Malik
October by Deborah Tapper
Fear of the Dark by Jacek Wilkos

The winner of the October 2022 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

What Dew Felt Like