Loveday Writing

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—May 2020 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s first word must be FIVE. Your story must include something being replaced. Your story must include the phrase A SILVER LINING. *** Renovation Five years. Five years was how long I was married to a man who was handsome, charming and nice to me

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—April 2020 short story competition was as follows: Each story had to begin on the side of a road. Each story must include the words APRON, PIGMENT, RIBBON, ICON, LEMON (notice A-P-R-I-L anyone?). Each story had to include a splash. *** Junk Drawer Mission My day started on the side of the road in

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—March 2020 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a PERSON IN DISGUISE. Your story must take place in a PARK. Your story must include a MIRROR. *** A Friendly Hello I needed fresh air, planning funerals are never easy. I decided to take a walk in the park, something I

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—February 2020 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a character who’s a GUARD. Your story must include the words NARROW, GOLDEN, LEATHERY and GLOSSY. Your story’s first and last sentences must each contain just TWO WORDS. *** Talking My Way In I’m dead. Not only am I dead, I’m standing

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—January 2020 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a COUNTDOWN of some kind. Your story must include a character who SHARES A SECRET. Your story must include the word SERENDIPITY. I actually submitted this for the competition, I didn’t win nor was I shortlisted. *** Countdown 06:18 (Damien has 15

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—December 2019 short story competition was as follows: Each story had to include SOMETHING EITHER BEING SENT OR RECEIVED IN THE MAIL. Each story had to include the following words: JINGLE, CLICK, BUMP, SIZZLE (plurals or -ing variants are allowed). Each story’s final sentence had to contain exactly THREE words. *** Farewell Christmas is definitely

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—November 2019 short story competition was as follows: Each story had to include YOUR INTERPRETATION of ALL FIVE of the below emojis, in any order. Each story’s first word had to BE AN ANAGRAM of its final word(s) (repeating the same word wasn’t allowed). Each story had to include the phrase: THERE WERE 11

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—October 2019 short story competition was as follows: Each story had to take place in a LIBRARY or BOOKSTORE Each story had to include AT LEAST SIX of the following 20 words– each taken from the openings of the previous 20 Furious Fiction winning stories: BROKEN; MUSIC; AROUND; MECHANICAL; SMELT; GRUBBY; GAME; COFFEE; BEIGE;

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—September 2019 short story competition was as follows: Each story had to include the name of at least ONE element from the periodic table. Each story’s first and last words had to begin with S. Each story had to contain the words TRAFFIC, JOWLS and HIDDEN. And finally, each story had to include something that BUZZES. *** Shaker

The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction—August 2018 short story competition was as follows: Each story simply had to include the following three sentences: The door was locked. She laughed. It felt familiar. *** Before the Storm The door was locked. Jesinta’s grand plan was just about complete with only one step left—freeing him so he could go straight into