Take 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: Your story must include a character who revisits something. Your story must include the same colour in your first and last sentence. Your story must include the words CAMP, FAST, and SPARK. *** Return Trip I love riding my white Harley through time. I
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: Your story’s first sentence must include something being POPPED. Your story must include a character who references a FILM title. Your story must include the words LEAP, BOTTLE, and SHADOW. *** Date Night? It was always captivating to watch the machine popping the corn.
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: Your story must be set at a remote house or cabin. Your story must include three different three-word sentences in a row. Your story must include the words SPACE, KNOCK, WHISTLE, MYTH (longer words are okay if original spelling is retained). *** Pit Stop
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – January 2024 short story competition was as follows: Your story must take place on a character’s first day of a new job. Your story must include something being stolen. Your story must include the words TRIP, TRIANGLE and TSUNAMI. *** Diary of a New Employee Time Entry 8:30 Arrived at the office
Read moreWrite a diary account of someone’s day, five minutes at a time (i.e. an entry every five minutes), fiction or non-fiction.** 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
Read moreMy Degree in Late Night Movies (Sandy McEwen)** Movie Buff My viewing schedule is as full as a doctor’s wallet. I hit the university study jackpot with a Bachelor of Film Studies (majoring in reviewing). Basically my studying consists of watching movies, sorry, films, for years on end and writing reviews. This semester’s focus is late night movies. I’m starting
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – May 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a character who is BEING CHASED or doing the CHASING. Your story must include the words BOIL, FRINGE, and JUMP. (You can use longer words – e.g. BOILING or JUMPED – as long as they retain the original spelling within
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