The final winner from our anthology of selected works called Shalom’s Literary Wonders is the runner-up in the year 11-12 short story category: Callum M.

Callum offers us a compelling story full of emotion and allegory. He makes the connection between the brittleness of mirror glass and the fragility of the human psyche that has become enshrouded in painful memories.

The mirror is used in literature as a vehicle to imbue psychological reflection as well as physical and remains an intricate illustration of identity and self-consciousness. It is often used to reflect oppositional themes of reality and illusion, honesty and deceit, reason and chaos, egotism and self-deprecation, equilibrium and incongruence.