Loveday Writing

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – March 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a CHAIR of some sort. Your story must include the words ALBUM, BRIGHT, and CLICK. Your story must include a character who has to make a CHOICE between two things. *** Deal or No Deal I’ve been sitting by my

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – April 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include something that CHANGES COLOUR. Your story must include the words ACCEPT, POINT, RIDDLE, INKLING and LABEL. APRIL FOCUS: Your story must have an ENGAGING OPENING SENTENCE – one that will make your reader want to read on. *** Cold Feet

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2022 short story competition was as follows: Your story must begin with a sentence containing exactly SIX words. Your story must include something being served. Your story must include the words STAGE, WIRE, and LOG. *** Rehearsal I hate running the school play. All the kids were together on stage, sitting

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – September 2022 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s first sentence must contain the word FIFTY. Your story must include a four-legged animal. Your story must include the words EMERGENCY, BRUSH, and BOARD. *** Left Behind For fifty days the bushfire raged on, burning away everything in its path. Once an

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – March 2022 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a character that commits a crime. Your story must include some kind of DOOR being opened. Your story must include the words CHALK, TALK, and FORK. *** Menace I had to cover this up. I wiped my prints from the

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – December 2021 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a tree. Your story must include something being taped. Your story must include the words DANCE, SEARCH, and CHANGE. *** Although this is a poem it is a fictional story being told via a poem. The Tree When I was

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

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—November 2021 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include someone PACKING A SUITCASE. Your story must include the phrase “ACROSS A CROWDED ROOM” (as dialogue or narrative). Your story must include the words CHARM, CRUSH and FAINT. (Longer variations were accepted as long as original spelling was retained.) *** Until Death Do

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—September 2021 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include EITHER an attic OR a basement. Your story must include some kind of insect. Your story must include the words EARTH, WIND, FIRE and WATER. *** Ally I have very few friends in the magical community, Zoey Martin is definitely one of

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—October 2021 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s setting: a COURT of some kind. Your story must include a character who measures something. Your story must include the words BALLOON, ROCK, UMBRELLA. *** Renovations: I’ve lived in this apartment complex for ten years. I moved here when I was 18, fresh out