The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—February 2019 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s first sentence must contain exactly THREE WORDS. Your story must include A FIRST of some king (open to interpretation). Your story must include A CANDLE. *** A Witch In Time Come on work! Sunday morning, 3am. I’ve been casting the same spell for hours,
Read moreThe brief for the AWC Furious Fiction—January 2019 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s first word must be NEW. Your story must include the words NINETEEN, DESERT, and PRESENT. Your story must include SOME KIND OF LIST (interpret how you like—could be just a mention or an actual list). **** New Witch on Campus New school, new life
Read moreThe brief for the AWC Furious Fiction—December 2018 short story competition was as follows: Your story must take place on Christmas Eve EITHER 50 years ago OR 50 years into the future (you decide). The first word of your story must rhyme with the last word of your story (they cannot be the same word). Your story must include the
Read moreThe brief for the AWC Furious Fiction–November 2018 short story competition was as follows: Your story must begin with a sentence containing just TWO words. Your entire story must take place at a SUPERMARKET. Your story must include SOMETHING BREAKING. **** First Shopping Trip Price check! Those words screeched by a woman over the supermarket’s loud speaker was enough to
Read moreThe brief for the AWC Furious Fiction–October 2018 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s title must be THE LOST HOUR – and the content of the story should relate in some way to that title (interpret it however you want). Your story must include the phrase IT WAS LIGHTER – either as part of a sentence or as
Read moreThis short story is my first short story for the AWC Furious Fiction competition and is based on the September 2018 competition brief. The brief for September 2018 was as follows: Your entire story must take place in an AIRPORT. Your story must include the word SPRING somewhere. (Plural is also okay.) Your story must include the phrase: IT WAS
Read moreI decided to give myself another writing challenge: the Australian Writers’ Centre Furious Fiction monthly competition. On the first weekend of every month, the Australian Writers’ Centre publishes a brief with rules/prompt for the current month’s competition. The brief is released on the first Friday and the deadline is 11.59pm that Sunday. It is a short story competition with a
Read moreThe New Year is coming up, it’s time for a change, it’s time for new scenery and exploration. It’s time to travel! Goodbye house, goodbye family, goodbye boyfriend, goodbye job, goodbye life! I’ll see you in a year’s time, watch out Europe, I’m on my way!
Read moreI hate job interviews, but this one I bombed in. I was nervous enough as it is, but the interviewer had parsley in her teeth and as she talked, it moved around to different teeth somehow and I couldn’t help myself—I burst into fits of laughter. I tried to calm myself down a little bit and told her and she
Read moreI’ve never been a big gardener so I don’t know why my sister gave me a hanging plant for my apartment balcony for my birthday. Seriously she’s my sister she could and should have done better than that. I didn’t mean to, but I work long hours and I forgot to water it, it didn’t take long for it to
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Loveday Writing 