March 2012 Short Story Competition

And now for Something Completely Different!!

Below there is a list of questions for you to answer.

On a scrap of paper jot down a few ideas that spring from the questions and try not to look ahead to the next question until you have written your response to the previous one. Give yourself a couple of minutes at least for each question, if you can .

(I will insert picture spacers to help stop your eye jumping to the next Q)

Use the ideas that come from the questions to help you start a story… you can of course remould your answers as your story dictates.

Here goes:

QUESTION 1

Think of a person you know by sight but haven’t met properly. Describe that person – What he or she looks like, maybe their character traits, a favourite colour etc…

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What’s the best question ever asked?

How far east can you go before you’re heading west?

If you dug a hole through the centre of the earth,and jumped in, would you stay at the centre because of gravity?

When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?

If ghosts can walk through walls and glide down stairs, why don’t they fall through the floor?

Do you have a favourite?