A young girl finds peace by the river while the world finds itself once again at war... "A World of Men" won 3rd Place, out of 642 entries, in our Ninth Playground Challenge. Alex Atkins is a talented writer from Utterson, ON, Canada, and she is a chronic genre-hopper. She won the NYC Midnight Prize for Flash Fiction for her science fiction short story “The 4:10 to Tarick” but also enjoys writing horror, romance, creative non-fiction, and more. Check out her website, atkinswrites.com to read some of her publications. Alex also has written a novel called, Them Bones, which is is the first novel in the “To the Grave” duet. It’s a gritty, grungy, coming-of-age romance set in the nineties. Available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook. You can find it on Amazon, as well as on her website. You can also follow Alex on Instagram @alexatkinswrites Read more of the winning stories from our competitions on our website, writersplaygroundllc.com