First up a warm welcome to all our newcomers: Mel Watts, Jess Grimmonds, Laurence Deam and Saskia Griffiths, and special shout outs to Debb Bouch and Disapol Savetsila, who scored really well, closely missing out on the top three. This time around we tried a different judging method. In the past, judges were asked to score each author out of ten, using decimal places if they liked. We’ve changed that up so now judges rank each story by preference, starting with 1. That means, like golf, the author with the lowest score wins. In third place is Ingrid Coram’s Separation. Ingrid has featured on our last two short lists and scored highly in both, so keep an eye for Ingrid in future short lists. Second place went to Arizona Red, …