My 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
Read moreFebruary 30.** One day in an Alternate Universe A long time ago, I found my way into an alternate universe. I was sitting on my back deck with a glass of wine, looking at the stars when one of them fell into my hand. The star grew hot in my hand and brighter, blinding me. When I opened my eyes
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—May 2018 short story competition was as follows: The story had to begin with the words “A long time ago” The story had to include the words “star”, “war” and “force” (or a plural of those words). The story had to feature something that flies. *** One day in an Alternate Universe A long
Read moreWrite a story about someone who’s very controlled on the outside but out of control on the inside.** The Elephant in the Room I thought I was being the perfect employee, or at least as perfect as possible. I always got to work early, stayed until 5pm and sometimes later, but not too late that it would cause concern. I’d
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—April 2018 short story competition was as follows: The title of the story had to be THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. The story had to feature the words “busted”, “emerged” and “key”. The story had to end with “the clock struck four”. *** The Elephant in the Room I thought I was being
Read moreWrite a piece in which two things are happening at once** Stage Fright Music was, sorry is my life. My friend, Valerie, from college finally opened her cabaret bar and formally invited me to sing on opening night. She knew it had been a while and she knew why. I made sure I was immaculately dressed, that the mic had
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