This 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
Read moreI’ve always wanted pets, but when I was a kid my parents couldn’t afford to care for it and then when I grew up and was renting and pets weren’t allowed on the lease. Now that I’ve retired, I don’t have the strength to look after a pet, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have one. My daughter bought me
Read moreI was never a big believer in Halloween but my little boy is. He’s always loved dressing up but the fact he can dress up and get free chocolate—of course he’s a big believer! Because I’ve had cancer for the last few years so I haven’t been able to trick or treat with him, but now I’m cancer free and
Read moreWell it’s official, I have to go on a diet and I have to lose weight. My ticker got a bad mark on its last test and cramming some good foods and fasting at the last minute didn’t really help. I’ve got to lose the fat, lose the salt, lose the sugar, lose the weight, lose everything I know and
Read moreMy father always said that when you travelling the best thing to have is a good pillow not a good mattress. I never understood what he meant by that until I grew up and became a sales rep and was on the road every day—just like he was. I sleep in cheap motels nearly every second day, the beds are
Read moreWhen I was a little girl, I also wanted to live in a townhouse or house with a staircase. I loved stairs, I still do, all types of stairs—wooden, metal, cement, spiral. I ended up with a spiral staircase in my first house and then I moved into another house with my husband, which had a wooden staircase and started
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