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About

Speculative fiction writer, wife, mum, gamer, and adventure seeker who just wants some sleep. She lives in sunny Queensland, but often fantasises about snow capped mountains in cooler climates.

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NYC Midnight Writing Challenges for 2023 Wrap Up

Last year it looks like I entered six different NYC Midnight writing challenges. Of those, I managed to make the named list in all of them, and through to the second round twice. When I think about that and take into consideration everything else that was going on last year, I guess that's a pretty decent effort in the grand scheme of things. I think I also took my random story writing to new heights, which is also a bonus.

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NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge 2023 - R1

This is the first time I have entered one of the NY Midnight Challenges a second time, and I was delighted to place fifth and make it through to the second round this time. I was given the genre of drama, with the subject of retirement and had to include a gossipmonger character. Here's my synopsis: A son signs his widowed father up for a retirement program designed especially for farmers. But when the father realizes the labor mech has an actual personality, he questions himself for acceding to his son’s request.

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NYC Midnight 250 Word Microfiction Challenge 2022

Another NYC Midnight challenge and I've landed myself another Honorable Mention. Here's my ghost story.

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NYC Midnight Rhyming Story Challenge 2022

This year NYC Midnight introduced a new challenge. The Rhyming Story Challenge. So, armed with the knowledge I am terrible at poetry, I thought, why not have a crack at it anyway. All feedback is good feedback, right? I ended up getting one of my favourite genres, but I was unable to flip the theme and emotion into something left of centre enough to stand out from from the crowd to place in the named top 12 for this one, but I did get some awesome, useful feedback. I was handed, Science Fiction, with the theme of 'adrift' and the emotion 'insignificant'. The story I wrote was called The Repair - A ship drifts through space with the last survivors from Earth on it. An unskilled repairer is tasked with fixing the hull to save them all before time runs out.

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NYC Midnight Flash Fiction 2022 Round 2

The second round was much the same as the first in constraints. 48 hours to write 1000 words. This time I got Spy genre, set on a Freighter, and I had to include a flame thrower. I don't really read a lot of spy books, either, it turns out. I think what I wrote may have been based on experiences from watching Burn Notice and MIB. The story I wrote is called Crisis Control. Secret agents infiltrate a freighter in the pacific ocean to perform an extraction after a distress beacon is triggered by a refugee in a protection program gone wrong. Failure could cause war to break out.

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