The Cello To tell you the truth I never wanted to be a cello. When I was wood I had My own song (Lorena Bruff) Write the tree’s song.** The Tree When I was wood, I stood proud and tall. People would search for me to sit under me when it was warm, and watch my leaves fall and change,
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – December 2021 short story competition was as follows: *** Although this is a poem it is a fictional story being told via a poem. The Tree When I was wood, I stood proud and tall. People would search for me to sit under me when it was warm, and watch my leaves
Read moreI’ve decided to participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) again this year. My goal will be the same as last year, as I have a lot of writing projects I want to attend to, my goal is to do as much writing as possible. My primary goal isn’t to meet the 50,000 word goal, however I do plan on
Read moreLove Child was a unique show for me to review as it was based on real-life forced adoption that happened in Australia between the 1950s and 1980s. The forced adoption practices during this period consisted of applying the ‘clean break’ theory and the framework of closed adoption. The ‘clean break’ theory involved removing the baby from the mother immediately after
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs for the season and pick up any arcs that were established in the previous season. I feel like this premiere didn’t really do this, however as each episode of the show so far has been self-contained, I felt that this job didn’t apply to them. As it has
Read moreHyde & Seek premiered on 3 October 2016 on the Nine Network. A drama thriller series, Hyde & Seek’s premise was described as follows: “When his best mate is killed in a seemingly random attack, Detective Gary Hyde (Matt Nable) vows to bring the killers to justice. Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton), Gary uncovers a criminal
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to bring the season’s story arcs and subplots to a close and establish new ones for the next season (if there is another one). This show is unique as it was an anthology series, so it didn’t have story arcs, rather individual self-contained stories revolving around the same setting, a beach holiday house,
Read moreThis episode went in a different direction to the previous ones with two sisters only having the holiday house for one night and the use of flashbacks throughout it. Interestingly, the episode kicks off with Hannah sitting in her car in her driveway and not at the holiday house. She’s ignoring phone calls from her work, her mother, and a
Read moreSo we’ve had two married couples, two long-term couples, and two divorcees sharing the house, and in this episode we had a couple on a trial separation. The episode kicks off with Charlie dragging her suitcase into the house during a thunderstorm and having a nice relaxing bath that is interrupted by the arrival of her husband, Zeke, and her
Read moreHow to Stay Married premiered on 8 November 2018 on Network Ten. The show focuses on Greg and Em Butler, a couple who have been married for fifteen years whose lives change when Em returns to work, Greg becomes the stay-at-home parent to their daughters, Sophie and Chloe, and Greg’s brother, Brad, moves in. They are also good friends with
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