Here is my entry for the August 2020 Furious Fiction monthly competition, as run by the Australian Writers’ Centre. The requirements for the story, apart from being within 500 words, are below. Your story must contain HUMOUR/COMEDY. Your story must include the following five words: DIZZY, EXOTIC, LUMPY, TINY, TWISTED.Continue Reading
Steve, the Elf-on-the-Shelf, gazed across the deep snow surrounding Santa’s Workshop. Thousands of similarly-clad elf dolls slowly trudged through the dim starlight on their regular evening pilgrimage. Each had an update for the big-guy-in-red, before making their way home again to a new spot in their house. Rinse and repeatContinue Reading
In a shocking first, local three-year-old, Brooke Reed, spent much of the morning demanding a wide variety of things from her steadily decaying parents, before promptly falling asleep right in the middle of the hallway. The morning began normally with Brooke complaining about how her peanut butter toast was cutContinue Reading
Duncan Shepherd strode into his local Bunnings with a confidence and purpose slapped on like how a water-based filler is applied evenly to an indoor or outdoor area with an easy applicator. In truth, he was suffering from the flu, the real flu and not whatever it is that hisContinue Reading
