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

The finalists for May were:

Handful of Gravel by Judith Dzierba
A Distant Hope by Jose Joel Robles
Trading Places by Stephen Tilden
The Guest by Jenny Logan
Bookworm by Stephen Gallagher
Kite-Flying by Sally Sadasivam
Blue by Alison Bernasconi

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

Bookworm