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

The finalists for September were:

Redundant by Zoe Zammit
I’ll need to do some dying before I’m done by Bob Thurber
After the Forest Caught Fire by J.S.P. Jacobs
Written in the Stars by Sam Hall

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

After the Forest Caught Fire