The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—August 2018 short story competition was as follows: Each story simply had to include the following three sentences: The door was locked. She laughed. It felt familiar. *** Before the Storm The door was locked. Jesinta’s grand plan was just about complete with only one step left—freeing him so he could go straight into
Read moreThis is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang, but a whimper. (T.S. Eliot)** End of My Own Little World Why did I put up with him for so long? Every day my husband and I live the same routine—I make his breakfast (English
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—July 2018 short story competition was as follows: The first sentence had to contain a question. Each story had to contain the words JAM, JACKPOT and JUNGLE (or an applicable “s”, “ing” or “ed” version). The story had to end with BANG. Literally. The final word had to be the single word sentence BANG.
Read moreEvil.** Fine Line Between Being Ambiguously Good and Evil I was walking back to my dorm after an 8.30pm class when I was startled by a shrill, piercing scream. When I looked up, out of my own world, I could immediately see where it was coming from—a woman being held against the corner of the Arts building by a man
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—August 2019 short story competition was as follows: Each story had to include, word for word, ALL of the following SIX descriptions: SHINY, SILVER COLD AND GREASY SCRATCHED AND WEATHER-WORN SWEET AND PUNGENT INK-STAINED SHRILL, PIERCING One of these six descriptions had to appear in the first sentence of each story. *** Fine Line
Read moreMy fun walk for November as part of my Year of the Fun Walk 2019 was Virtual Pace Series’ Sloth Run Challenge. The Challenge’s web page states that the ” sloth’s life revolves around eating & sleeping… unfortunately a lot of us can identify with that. Our challenge is to break out of sloth-like behaviour and be more active.” The
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and set up new ones for the next season, if there is one. I felt that this finale only partially did its job. Kath, Maddy, Kendall and Liam—The main focus of about two-thirds of the finale was about dealing with Liam. I was happy to see
Read moreWe’ve reached the penultimate episode of the second season and one thing this episode didn’t lack was drama as everything is reaching a head. Connor, Tahlia, Kath, Brian and Liam—I thought I would start with them as the episode revolved around them. The episode kicks off with Connor, Tahlia and Kath having a meeting at Tahlia’s house to discuss what
Read more“It’s not over yet.”** This story was written based on this picture and prompts provided by the Australian Writers’ Centre. *** Dinner Party Madeline put down the last piece of cutlery on her immaculately set table and admired her work. She chucked at the fact that this last piece was a knife, the people who would be coming to her
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—June 2018 short story competition was as follows: Your story had to begin with the scene that you see in the picture. We suggested thinking about your story like a short film and that image being the “opening frame” that the viewer sees. And of course, as usual, the maximum word limit was 500
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