Category Archives: Short Stories

Furious Fiction – July 2023

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

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Furious Fiction – December 2022

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

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First Friday Fix – August 2022

The prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for August 2022 was three creative writing exercises to write three scenes, focusing on showing not telling. *** Ruined Plans Everyone was talking about their plans for the evening at work all day. Some planned on getting cozy in beds and reading, some cozy on their couch and watching

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Furious Fiction – June 2022

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

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First Friday Fix – July 2022

The prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for July 2022 was to write a 50-word story using three of the five following ingredients: a lettuce leaf, a rubber duck, a pair of roller skates, a garden gnome, and/or a banana. My story can be found below. *** How to Make Rubber Duck Salad To make rubber

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