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June winners 2024 – adults
In our June competition, we asked for stories featuring a museum.
Congratulations to the winners of our June competition.
Feeling inspired? Have a go at this month's prompt.
Adult writers winner
Hugh Brown
The first-daters gazed at the image of Christ on the cross hovering over a fishing boat.
“Dali” she read.
“I know” he lied “yet so different from his other work”
“Oh, like what?”
“Matilda….BFG….The Twits…..”
“Mmm hmm”
The last-daters walked out to Argyle Street.
Gaelic winner
Fergus Reoch
Anns an taigh-tasgaidh, chunnaic an neach-cuairt clàran criadhach bho Mhesopotamia: litir bho luchd-obrach ann an taigh-òil dhan neach-fastaidh aca. Bha iad ag iarraidh tuarastal chothromach. Às dèidh an taisbeanaidh, dh’òl i cofaidh daor ann an café far nach robh tuarastal chothromach aig an luchd-obrach fhathast.
Translation by author
At the museum, the visitor saw a clay tablet from Mesopotamia: a letter from tavern workers to their employer, requesting a fair wage. After the exhibition, she drank expensive coffee at a cafe, where the workers still don’t have a fair wage.