But then it arrived! By some magical postal arrangement that, to this day, Australia Post hasn't grapsed.
Andrew sent me a text message.
I came home straight away.
What, I hear you say? Weren't you at work. How could you just leave? Well, yes. But I work in the library - books are revered, and I'd just received one with my name written inside. No one blinked as I raced out the door.
The anthologies came in a sack. I've never received a sack in the post before.
Here I am holding it.
Yes, that's right. It seems sacks are a Swiss idea.
Inside the sack was a brown cardboard box.
And inside the box were the books.
They look real, don't they! Here's me holding an anthology.
My story is the first in the book (okay, so a little freaky). Then are all these other amazing stories. I've been reading some this evening. They are really I good! I don't know how I won this thing?
But I did. There's my story, at the front on the book and it has First Prize written above it.
The whole thing feels real, suddenly.
