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  Theresa Rajah won third place in the 2021 KREST annual short story competition. Theresa is a 29-year-old journalist from Johannesburg, South Africa. She works as a features journalist for a mining and engineering publication. She is also a mom to an almost-two-year-old boy. Theresa lives in a small town called Springs in Gauteng. Here is Theresa's third place-winning story: I would never have thought this is how my time on earth would end. My mind and body slowly begin working as one, pulling my consciousness out of subconsciousness. I am slowly being pulled, nudged even, out of sleep and into alertness. I feel it happening, and as I do every morning, I grasp onto the familiarities of my surroundings. My senses begin to feel around for reality as they move further away from my dream realm. I feel the slight crisp of the cold morning air, and sluggishly pull the duvet to cover my exposed shoulder. That movement, in a real space, speeds my other senses along. My ears are sudden

  Tammi Saymaan won second place in the 2021 KREST annual short story competition This was Tammi's first ever short story submission, surprising both herself and the judges. Tammi currently works as an SEO content manager for a digital marketing company, and gets to spend days being paid to write, edit and publish blog content. More creative writing is at the top of her agenda for the future. Here is Tammi's second place-winning story:  Kat sighed as she strapped on her second stiletto heel. There were hundreds of other places she would rather be going tonight. But there wasn’t much choice, was there? As one of the youngest (female, no less) account managers at her company, she had to show her face at this party. If she wasn’t present tonight, the older men (and women, sadly), who spent their days scrutinizing every move that 30-year-old Kat made, would undoubtedly make a myriad of jokes about how she was probably off doing tequila shots instead. But that was far from the tru