Author Archives: Rach Loveday

How to Stay Married–Season 1, Episode 6

This episode was a huge improvement from last week’s. This episode kept things single with one major story and going sans the kids and Terry and Marlo. This episode focused on Em’s high school reunion. Throughout the episode Em hangs out with old schoolmate, Clea. After having a run in with an old teacher who accuses her of plagiarising a

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How to Stay Married–Season 1, Episode 5

In all honesty this review is going to be short as I felt this was the weakest episode of the series so far. This episode revolved around the impending hard rubbish collection day in Greg and Em’s neighbourhood. The impending collection day, along with Em realising there isn’t enough space in the house and there is an unused cubby house

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Furious Fiction – November 2018

The brief for the AWC Furious Fiction–November 2018 short story competition was as follows: Your story must begin with a sentence containing just TWO words. Your entire story must take place at a SUPERMARKET. Your story must include SOMETHING BREAKING. **** First Shopping Trip Price check! Those words screeched by a woman over the supermarket’s loud speaker was enough to

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Furious Fiction – October 2018

The brief for the AWC Furious Fiction–October 2018 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s title must be THE LOST HOUR – and the content of the story should relate in some way to that title (interpret it however you want). Your story must include the phrase IT WAS LIGHTER – either as part of a sentence or as

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John Marsden Writing Topic #243

Rimmed by uncertainty** First Shopping Trip Price check! Those words screeched by a woman over the supermarket’s loud speaker was enough to startle me out of my daydream and regain my thoughts. I wandered through each aisle going through the motions, picking up things off the shelves and mindlessly putting them in my trolley. I didn’t realise that the Dolmio

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Furious Fiction – September 2018

This short story is my first short story for the AWC Furious Fiction competition and is based on the September 2018 competition brief. The brief for September 2018 was as follows: Your entire story must take place in an AIRPORT. Your story must include the word SPRING somewhere. (Plural is also okay.) Your story must include the phrase: IT WAS

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AWC–Furious Fiction

I decided to give myself another writing challenge: the Australian Writers’ Centre Furious Fiction monthly competition. On the first weekend of every month, the Australian Writers’ Centre publishes a brief with rules/prompt for the current month’s competition. The brief is released on the first Friday and the deadline is 11.59pm that Sunday. It is a short story competition with a

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How to Stay Married–Season 1, Episode 4

This episode managed to be both hilarious and relatable. The A story this week was Greg being a coach on Sophie’s basketball team and Em believing that she hasn’t been around enough due to her new job. Throughout the episode, something is clearly up with Sophie, even more so as it’s revealed that she hasn’t scored a goal all season

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