Loveday Writing

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – July 2023 short story competition was as follows:

• Your story must include a CHILD (16 or younger) as its main character.
• Your story’s first sentence must contain two colours.
• Your story must include the words BUMPER, PRIZE, and IMPOSSIBLE.

#As this story prompted a child to be the main character, I made mine six-years-old, and the spelling and grammatical mistakes in the story are deliberate, as I wanted the character’s voice to read and sound child-like.

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Ring Toss

I wanted to win the blue bunny, not the pink one.

I hate Bumper Berkerson, he’s always mean to me in kindy class and pulls my hair and says he’s the best at everything.

Well, not everything. He won’t beat me at ring toss.

My daddy teached me how to play ring toss when I was really little and we play it every weekend. He tells me I’m the best.

When I throwed the first ring and got it over the peg, he said he could do it too, but he missed.

Next ring, he missed. I got it.

When I throwed the last ring and got it over the peg again, I won first prize! A free bunny. I knew he wanted the blue bunny, so I got it! I heard his daddy say that my win was impossible, his daddy is like him.

It wasn’t, it was easy for me. My daddy teached me and he moved some of Billy’s pegs back when he wasn’t looking.