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WELKIN PRIZE 2026 - SHORTLISTED
weak beans

by Barnaby Wick

A town of wooden buildings

Ahrmember thClancys. Good people. Terrible thingat happened tothm. Everbody knew wernt them, wernt ther fault. Bat that partickler point in time they wus poor as weak beans. Othwise couldahada better lawyer. Astwas - Fenton, vulture tht e was - they wus evicted. Hadta go live with er maw. N she wernt much bettroff. No savins, no land t speak of. Grew what th could bt didnbt lastem moren a year. All starved, one b one. Cept th lil girl. Evette waited twe-e-e-elve lo-o-ong ye-ea-ars. Shot Tip Fenton right between the eyes. Hanged fer it, course. But she wus smilin in that noose.

Barnaby Wick lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He has been making up stories and rhymes since he was little and the world made no sense. He's not much bigger now and the world makes little more sense so he carries on.

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