The story I wrote for class this week had to incorporate either the beginning or an ending of  an already pulished short story. I choose 'The Sniper' by Liam O'Flaherty.
It was actually quite a challenge; trying to keep with the original voice, style and theme was a lot harder than I initially thought!
The ending I choose starts at 'When the sniper ( Read more... )

I wrote this last week in response to modernising a King Arthur tale. I prefer this story than any other I've written whilst taking the course, although it was probably the hardest task!

The historical element in the middle is all fact apart from there being a statue of James 1st, this is made up to suit my own purpose :)

( Deception )

This is the second story I wrote for class. The theme was to write a story following the conventions of the horror or ghost genre. As I have never really written either, I decided to focus more on the presentation to help to strengthen the piece. Originally each line was shorter than the previous from start to finish, but the computers at uni (and ( Read more... )

This is the first piece of fiction I wrote for the Writing Short Stories module I take at Uni.
There wasn't a brief or prompt for the peice so it's pretty random. ( A Painful Beauty )