The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Teacher’s Pet I’ve been Cindy’s teacher since kindergarten. She’d always been such a good girl: polite, eager to please, conscientious, smart. But now she’s a teenager. She’s rebelling at the moment: talks back, smokes, hangs out with a bad crowd, and is sending
Read moreWrite a conversation which consists entirely of questions** Centre of Attention “Why did you have to steal my thunder, Maggie?!” “I didn’t steal your thunder at all, Esther! Why would you say that?” “Why would you choose my wedding day to announce your pregnancy and make my day all about you?!” “Why not? You’re my best friend, aren’t you happy
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – April 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Centre of Attention “Why did you have to steal my thunder, Maggie?!” “I didn’t steal your thunder at all, Esther! Why would you say that?” “Why would you choose my wedding day to announce your pregnancy and make my day all about you?!”
Read moreTake a motorbike journey through time.** Return Trip I love riding my white Harley through time. I can’t tell you how or why the time-travelling Harley showed up on my doorstep. I just woke up one morning and found it there. When I went for my first ride, it was an early Autumn morning in 2020 and I was wearing
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – March 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Return Trip I love riding my white Harley through time. I can’t tell you how or why the time-travelling Harley showed up on my doorstep. I just woke up one morning and found it there. When I went for my first ride, it
Read moreIn a piece of descriptive writing, show us where we are by reference to three objects. Be subtle** Date Night? It was always captivating to watch the machine popping the corn. It was always funny to think that a vegetable could be transformed into something so light, fluffy, buttery and salty that could be mindlessly eaten whilst watching a film
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – February 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Date Night? It was always captivating to watch the machine popping the corn. It was always funny to think that a vegetable could be transformed into something so light, fluffy, buttery and salty that could be mindlessly eaten whilst watching a film on
Read moreWrite a story in which you exaggerate everything.** Pit Stop This cabin is haunted. It’s all logs. Rustic, old, wet. Shabby, small, mossy. I thought it would be cute, polished, and warm. It’s so quiet outside that I can hear the whistle of the strong wind outside. It sounds like a ghost trying to scare me away. The tree branches
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – November 2023 short story competition was as follows: *** Pit Stop This cabin is haunted. It’s all logs. Rustic, old, wet. Shabby, small, mossy. I thought it would be cute, polished, and warm. It’s so quiet outside that I can hear the whistle of the strong wind outside. It sounds like a
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – January 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** Diary of a New Employee Time Entry 8:30 Arrived at the office for my first day at my new job, waiting for my boss to pick me up from reception. 8:35 My boss finds me at reception and tells me he’s going to
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