Loveday Writing

Take some words that sound interesting – slurp, muffin, avocado, gonorrhea, pooch – and use them in a story, but with new meanings that you’ve assigned to them.**

For this prompt, I decided to apply it to the short story I wrote for Furious Fiction – June 2025, which was a story where I included all 26 words of the NATO phonetic alphabet. The NATO phonetic alphabet in this short story have been assigned new meanings due to them being used as names for characters, locations and actions.

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Foxtrot, Tango, Victor

Charlie foxtrotted with Juliet in Quebec and then Tangoed in India, after they made the finals in the dance competition. The dance competition finals were held in November and they went with their Yankee friends from the Alpha Dance Academy: Mike, Oscar, Sierra, and Delta. Whilst they were in India, they stayed at the Romeo Hotel. They agreed to have some fun once the competition was over, with plans to play golf and drink whiskey.

On the big day, they danced their hearts out and thing were going well, until the echo of Delta’s ankle breaking could be heard around the room. Delta’s papa rushed up out of his seat to pick her up and carry her out of the room, and onto hospital for an X-ray. Delta blamed the ankle break on an extra kilo she gained in the week leading up to the finals.

Six months later, they all met again at another dance competition in Lima. They all wore their glamorous, bright and sparkly dance outfits like a uniform, and dance their hearts out yet again.

Delta and Mike were declared the victors, with everyone congratulating them with a “Bravo Zulu (Well done)!”

**Reference: Marsden J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.