We’re now at the halfway point of the season and this episode offers Jordan’s and Brooke’s perspective. The episode kicks off with Jordan washing dishes in prison, spilling water on himself, before seeing his solicitor. His solicitor shows him the viral video of Mary confronting Brooke, and tells Jordan that Mary has been stood down from work because of it,
Read moreNow that the pilot has come and gone, this episode and the rest of the season can dig a little deeper with its character development and story arcs. The episode kicks off with a party, showing Ash’s murderer, Jordan Bancroft, and his girlfriend, Brooke, getting high on ice. This leads to Brooke smashing her arm through a window and going
Read moreThe purpose of a pilot is to establish the show’s premise and characters. This show, one with a heavy, sensitive, and complex subject matter, did its job perfectly. The pilot kicks off with joyous vibes as a group of friends celebrate New Year’s Eve, with Ash proposing to his girlfriend, Lillian (Brooke Satchwell) on their apartment balcony, as the New
Read moreThis analysis series will explore the evolution of Australian singer-songwriter, Delta Goodrem, over the course of six of her studio albums: Innocent Eyes, Mistaken Identity, Delta, Child of the Universe, Wings of the Wild, and Bridge Over Troubled Dreams. Although she released the album, Only Santa Knows, in 2020, between Wings of the Wild and Bridge Over Troubled Dreams, as
Read moreWrite a piece from the point of view of someone evil.** Purgatory (The Waiting Room) My favourite form of torture is the waiting room. Most people associate the torture that goes on in Hell as the constant presence of demons, the fire and brimstone, darkness and stench, as well as torment and punishments. That goes on here too, but the
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – September 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Purgatory (The Waiting Room) My favourite form of torture is the waiting room. Most people associate the torture that goes on in Hell as the constant presence of demons, the fire and brimstone, darkness and stench, as well as torment and punishments. That
Read moreThis new analysis series will explore the evolution of Australian singer-songwriter, Delta Goodrem, over the course of six of her studio albums: Innocent Eyes, Mistaken Identity, Delta, Child of the Universe, Wings of the Wild, and Bridge Over Troubled Dreams. Although she released the album, Only Santa Knows, in 2020, between Wings of the Wild and Bridge Over Troubled Dreams,
Read moreTake 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
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2025 short story competition was as follows: ALPHA, BRAVO, CHARLIE, DELTA, ECHO, FOXTROT, GOLF, HOTEL, INDIA, JULIET, KILO, LIMA, MIKE, NOVEMBER, OSCAR, PAPA, QUEBEC, ROMEO, SIERRA, TANGO, UNIFORM, VICTOR, WHISK(E)Y, X-RAY, YANKEE, ZULU. *** Foxtrot, Tango, Victor Charlie foxtrotted with Juliet in Quebec and then Tangoed in India, after they made
Read moreWrite a letter to another member of the class** A Letter to my Former Uni Classmates To my creative and intellectual soulmates, It’s been over a decade since we all graduated. I miss you all and I hope you’re all doing well. Before I moved to Wollongong and started studying creative writing at UOW in 2010, I never knew or
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