Category Archives: Topics for Short Stories

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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John Marsden Writing Topic #252

Keep on going till it all stops flowing.** Encore—Volume IV You are cordially invited to the reunion of GoGirls! at the Worthington Function Centre on Saturday September 13th 2025. Please RSVP to Mrs Valerie Morganside by Friday August 14th and inform her of whether you will be bringing along your spouse and/or family members.   Melanie Shaughnessy Angus—Go Girls! Vocalist

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John Marsden Writing Topic #301

Sadness.** Encore—Volume III You are cordially invited to the reunion of GoGirls! at the Worthington Function Centre on Saturday September 13th 2025. Please RSVP to Mrs Valerie Morganside by Friday August 14th and inform her of whether you will be bringing along your spouse and/or family members.   Marilyn Hollows—younger sister of Geraldine Hollows, GoGirls! Drummer and Co-Leader   I

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John Marsden Writing Topic #203

Never stop** Why the 2012 London Olympics game is proof that progression should never stop The legacy of the 2012 London Olympic Games would be progression. The London 2012 Olympic Games were the first Games where every country had a female competitor, thanks to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei making the decision to allow female athletes their chance to compete.

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John Marsden Writing Topic #173

World War VIII** Surrender I arrived at our meeting early, hoping to gather my thoughts and prepare my speech. I revised my arguments over and over and re-examined my wounds. We had fought for a long time, plenty of shots were fired, one attack after another. He walked in without saying a word or showing emotion and approached the table

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John Marsden Writing Topic #193

‘When love comes along, there is no right or wrong, your love is your love.’ (West Side Story)** Family of the League (Volume II) Everyone has different definitions of ‘family’–for some people it’s the nuclear definition of a mother, a father, a son and a daughter. For some it may go beyond the nuclear/heterosexual tradition of a mother and father

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John Marsden Writing Topic #242

Describe a meal at your place as though a sporting commentator’s broadcasting it** Dinner with the (soon-to-be) In-Laws COMMENTATOR #1: Hello and welcome to ESPN’s Dinner Events: (Soon-To-Be) In-Laws edition! Tonight we have the Edelson’s and the Markson’s, with Mark and Julie Edelson’s oldest son, Daniel, marrying Michael and Helen Markson’s youngest daughter, Rebecca. This dinner is the first time

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