Category Archives: Topics for Short Stories

John Marsden Writing Topic #235

Write a piece where the end of the story is told at the beginning**   The Day When the Most Unexpected Thing Happened Wednesday March 23rd 2011 9.15am I was at campus, in the communications building, chatting with my friend and classmate; Kelly, awaiting the start of our journalism lecture when you were pronounced dead. There is a saying that

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John Marsden Writing Topic #168

No** The Branches On My Family Tree Volume III Sebastian and Leah’s wedding was planned for July 17th 1989. I wasn’t going to go, although I was happy for them as Leah was clearly better suited to Sebastian than I was, but he’s still my ex-husband and I didn’t think it was appropriate. However Joanna is flower girl, so I’m

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John Marsden Writing Topic #167

K** Eleven Lives and Loves Volume I–K is for kids December 17 2008 Lorraine’s story I didn’t plan on having kids, especially ten of them, of course I didn’t, especially since I had my eldest at seventeen. When I discovered I was pregnant, my boyfriend, Markus and I freaked out, which was to be expected. What we didn’t expect was

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