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

The finalists for July were:

The Buddy Bench by Miranda Keskes
Shadow Dreams (Another Misadventure of the Broken Boys) by Bob Thurber
Let Me Mourn by Chidi Young
I watch the bones sink to the bottom by J.C. Pillard
The Healer by Beatrice Rao
I Wish You Hadn’t by Hannah Bub

The winner of the July 2023 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

I watch the bones sink to the bottom