The Inheritance

FIRST PLACE £200

Dominic Bell is an oil rig worker from Hull, East Yorkshire, and writes as a break from either staring at the sea off Norway or looking after three teenagers in his time off. His main writing project is endlessly editing a series of First World War novels, the number of which increase by one annually due to NaNoWriMo. He tries to enter almost all the WM short story competitions to diversify his writing and have the satisfaction of actually finishing something. This is his sixth WM win.

Mark woke with his head pounding, the taste of his mouth disgusting. He felt his stomach spasm, and barely made it to the toilet in time, retching out yellow bile. He could not remember eating anything for days now, in fact could not remember much about anything for days.

He washed his mouth out with water, searched his pockets and found his baccy. Just enough for a roll-up now and a joint afterwards to tune him out while he got everything