Struggling to keep up.
NO. Not my actual shorts. Those are far too gross for Teh Interwebs. These are short stories or memoirs that I’ve busted out to keep the ol’ Writery Muscles flexed.
Every month, the Australian Writer’s Centre holds the Furious Fiction contest, where they give a handful of writing prompts, limit you to 500 words and see what you come up with. I’ve been ‘longlisted’ for the comp before, and this one got me on there again, so I’m happy enough with that. The prompts for […]
This was a 600-word challenge for a comp called “Short Takes”. At least, that’s what was in the filename in my “Shorts” folder, and I can’t even remember anything about it other than that. There was a time there that I was entering fresh writing into every comp that I could. Probably a time before […]
This is a short story for the Australian Writer’s Centre Furious Fiction December 2022 Contest for which I was longlisted. In addition to being limited to 500 words, the other rules were: Each story had to begin with a 12-word sentence. Each story had to include the sale of a second-hand item Each story had […]
The river doesn’t care. It doesn’t care about the crystalline, perfect Spring day’s sunshine pouring down. It doesn’t care about me, or my older brother who is home from Uni, or my mother who has made a rare visit back as well and has taken us out fishing for the day. The river doesn’t care […]
He was four days shy of turning fifty and Jack was running so hard he thought his heart would burst. The panting growl grew closer behind him even though he was running as fast as he ever had in his life. The huge German Shepard had burst through the brush and interrupted Jack’s evening jog […]