The monster museum** Monsters on Display Hopefully this museum will be healing for at least one person. Inspired by the What Were You Wearing exhibit, Julia decided to open The Monster Museum, but the exhibits wouldn’t explore ancient artefacts, or people with birth defects that would have been labelled as “monsters” in the past. The Museum would display monsters of
Read moreWrite in the voice of someone naive** Let it Rain If I get rid of it all, nothing bad will happen, they can’t catch me. My bosses were warm in the beginning – welcoming, made me feel like part of a real family, told me that my work, their work, would do great things for the community. But that wasn’t
Read moreDescribe something from extremely close-up** Fairground Feelings This isn’t how I envisioned our second date, but Jonathon had never been painted before and wanted to see me at work. He sat in front of me being the dutiful subject, his chocolate brown eyes piercing my soul as I gently painted lines around them. He desperately tried not to sneeze as
Read moreNo-one suffers like the mechanic** Additional Service I should have never set up my car mechanical business at the petrol station. It seemed like the perfect business plan at the time – regular potential customers who could drop in after they filled up their cars (if they happened to hear any loud or mysterious noises as they were travelling), and
Read moreDescribe a visit to the dream factory** The Sandman’s Factory Tour Are you enjoying the tour of my factory? I’m the Sandman, most people think I bring them dreams by sprinkling sleep-inducing sand into their eyes as they yawn for the final time of that day. In reality, like any other product that needs to be manufactured, I need a
Read moreWrite a story in which people die in very strange ways.** An Important Service Some people view my job as a medical examiner as either boring or gory. I view it as an important service – I provide answers – answers to questions raised by families, doctors, medical boards, and sometimes, sadly, even the police. But what was supposed to
Read moreDescribe a group of humans who have a lot of time on their hands.** The Front Desk I’m the gatekeeper of fun at the Sapphire Ocean Resort. I’m the first person people see when they check in and that’s when they’re at their nicest – they’re excited for their holiday, eager to see what their room will look like and
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 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 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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