Loveday Writing

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – July 2023 short story competition was as follows: #As this story prompted a child to be the main character, I made mine six-years-old, and the spelling and grammatical mistakes in the story are deliberate, as I wanted the character’s voice to read and sound child-like. *** Ring Toss I wanted to win

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – December 2022 short story competition was as follows: *** Trash to Treasure The last time I saw her was graduation day (and good riddance)! Tracey Holden was the most popular girl and biggest bully in school, or at least bully to a “freak” like me. The day I graduated high school was

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2023 short story competition was as follows: *** A Bushranger’s Eulogy Mum would always take off like a rocket during a chase. She loved it when it was on foot, she’d smile and look back as her enemies shot at her and missed, whilst she’d open fire and hit at least

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – March 2023 short story competition was as follows: *** Deal or No Deal I’ve been sitting by my record player on one of my old, wooden dining table chairs listening to my old albums for hours, trying to self-reflect and decide whether to take the deal or not. Listening to my old

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – April 2023 short story competition was as follows: *** Cold Feet Why did he have to propose? I had an inkling that he was up to something, I mean he’s been up to a lot of things lately – quitting his high-paying corporate job to “have a life” which has only amounted

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2022 short story competition was as follows: *** Rehearsal I hate running the school play. All the kids were together on stage, sitting at a dining table set with mostly fake but some real food. They were getting restless as we’d been rehearsing all morning and it was nearly lunchtime, so

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – September 2022 short story competition was as follows: *** Left Behind For fifty days the bushfire raged on, burning away everything in its path. Once an emergency had been declared, everyone started to flee. Not everyone, humans and animals included, made it out. Some had died and others were stuck, slowly trying

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – March 2022 short story competition was as follows: *** Menace I had to cover this up. I wiped my prints from the gun I used to shoot him in the chest…and the abdomen for good measure. I also wiped the fork I used to stab him, add a few stab as well

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – December 2021 short story competition was as follows: *** Although this is a poem it is a fictional story being told via a poem. The Tree When I was wood, I stood proud and tall. People would search for me to sit under me when it was warm, and watch my leaves

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—August 2021 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s first sentence must contain only four words. Your story must include something being shared. Your story must include the words PAINT, SHIFT, WAVE and TOAST. (Longer variations were accepted as long as original spelling was retained.) *** The Next Chapter The house is finished. After