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What lies beneath

What lies underneath

This week’s prompt by Jude

A couple doing up an old house somewhere Mediterranean. Use stripping down layers of old plaster and paint as a metaphor for discovering what lies beneath the surface of their relationship. A longer story, a flash fiction piece – it’s up to you. Check out the great competition listings at Almond Press if you want to submit your finished story somewhere. The listings are all in date order.

 

Thrilling Stories for Girls

Thrilling stories for girlsThis week’s prompt by Jude

The year’s 1929 and in the flyleaf it says Josie’s Aunt Gertie, gave her this book for her birthday on 12th January. Write a story about something thrilling that happened to a girl called Josie in 1929. Here are  two random Wikipedia facts for that year. Martin Luther King was born and Herge’s Adventures of Tintin first hit the comic strips in Belgium.