Aw wow, I'm so massively touched by this, lads. Thank you to the Medium elf who saw something in my story and brought it to the judging round. It took 25ish years, but my humiliation in adolescent market selling finally did me some good!

To every single entrant; just a massive hats off for doing the big work. Writing isn't easy and competitions come with all kinds of personal stakes and what-ifs and why-nots. We did good just by doing, buddies.