The prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for November 2022 was writing the ending to three micro stories. The footsteps were getting louder now. And faster. Jade reached the corner and met a classic alley leading to a dead end. Would this be her dead end? New sneakers squeaked to a halt, breath playing catch up.
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for April 2022 was to write a 50-word story that takes place on an aeroplane and had to begin with dialogue. My story can be found below. *** Rough Landing “Are you a nervous flyer?” “Is it that obvious?” “Only because I used to be like that.” “You? You’re
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre (AWC) First Friday Fix for May 2022 was to write the same scene using THREE different POV styles and that it should tell the story of a thief stealing cookies from a jar. This story is clearly longer than 50 words, however the prompt didn’t mention that it needed to be 50 words
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre (AWC) First Friday Fix for February 2022 was to write a 50-word story based on the title ‘It Takes Two’. My response can be found below: *** It Takes Two Yes, I ruined the company Christmas party. No, I didn’t do it on my own. Yes, I broke Keith’s arm, but I did
Read moreI’ve decided to give myself another writing challenge: the Australian Writers’ Centre’s First Friday Fix challenge. Now that the Furious Fiction competition has moved from monthly to quarterly, the Australian Writers’ Centre are now providing First Friday Fix – a 50-word story writing challenge that is held in the months between the Furious Fiction competition. First Friday Fix started in
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe 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
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