I was delighted that my March story ‘Gold, and Blue…’ came first in the voting!

The April theme for the Telegraph Creative Writing Group competition being ‘Health’, my story of the month ‘Smoking is bad for you’ is a 500-word short fiction about a survivor of children’s home abuse. Inspired by the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to prosecute Greville Janner due to his dementia. All characters are fictional.