by mgadmin | Oct 31, 2025 | Blog, Short Stories
I am not big on horror stories or scary stories, however at the end of October every year, the kids I work with want to write spooky, Halloween stories. I give it a go, always with varying results. Given that today is Halloween, I thought I’d share one of my...
by admin | Aug 25, 2023 | Short Stories, Writers Group
Today, I set the kids an emoji prompt. They were to come up with a story using the following emojis as inspiration: There is a t-rex, a bumped head, a handbag, a letterbox, an avocado, someone climbing up a cliff, and a baby change sign. It’s been a little while...
by admin | Dec 17, 2021 | Short Stories
Even when I was a kid, I wondered how Santa would get into houses that didn’t have a chimney. I know that our house didn’t have one… A couple of years ago, Adrian Darakai recorded a song called Santa, We Have Ducted Heating. This inspired one of my...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Short Stories
In Virtual Writers Groups, we have done random word prompts, where I provide the participants with random words to come up with a story. Today, we mixed it up a bit. When I logged in, a couple of the kids were already having fun playing with emoji’s, so, instead...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Blog, Books, Short Stories
I love writing short stories, the sillier the better. I run writing groups with young writers where I get the opportunity to flex my short story writing muscles, however I am the one who sets the prompt… My awesome nephews have had fun setting me writing prompts...
by admin | Jul 3, 2021 | Short Stories
It’s been a while since I’ve shared a short story from a writing exercise. This morning, I attended my local writers group and we were given pictures for the following categories: Murder Victim, Accomplice, Evidence, Scene of the Crime, Murder Weapon,...
