Category Archives: Short Stories

NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge 2025

Last year, I entered the NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge, an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to write original scary stories using three prompts: a scare, a character, and an action. Each participant has 48 hours to write a scary story under 400 words. The judges select the top 10 writers from each group in the first round

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Furious Fiction – September 2024

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – September 2024 short story competition was as follows: *** 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

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Furious Fiction – June 2025

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2025 short story competition was as follows: ALPHA, BRAVO, CHARLIE, DELTA, ECHO, FOXTROT, GOLF, HOTEL, INDIA, JULIET, KILO, LIMA, MIKE, NOVEMBER, OSCAR, PAPA, QUEBEC, ROMEO, SIERRA, TANGO, UNIFORM, VICTOR, WHISK(E)Y, X-RAY, YANKEE, ZULU. *** Foxtrot, Tango, Victor Charlie foxtrotted with Juliet in Quebec and then Tangoed in India, after they made

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Furious Fiction – December 2025

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – December 2025 short story competition was as follows: *** Caught on Camera It wasn’t the first time this had happened, but it was the first time that it went viral. Colleagues having affairs isn’t anything new. Think about it, if someone wants to have an affair, the office is the easiest place

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Furious Fiction – November 2025

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – November 2025 short story competition was as follows: *** The Final Reveal Today was finally the day where everything was revealed. Molly spent weeks working her way through her grand plan and the contestants, there was only two other contestants left, Ian and Jan. The three of them took the final quiz

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Furious Fiction – August 2025

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – August 2025 short story competition was as follows: *** The Last Hurrah (Part II) It was the third mediation meeting in the office this week for another soon-to-be divorced couple. Today it was Mike and Tina, it would be their first time at the negotiation table. They only lasted six months, apparently

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Furious Fiction – September 2025

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – September 2025 short story competition was as follows: *** The Iron Lady “Will you marry me?” I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard that question being asked between two people in front of me, but if I had to guess, it’d have to be in the several thousands. They call

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