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9. Space Age

“Space Age” is the last prompt for the year from the Queensland Writers Centre. Straight away the brain races towards rockets and colonization and some...

8. Loaded Question

So another prompt came from the Queensland Writers Centre- Loaded Question This just set off a free-flowing stream of ideas that culminated in the decision to explore...

7. Egg Moon

A Crack in the Moon It’s eight days into the month and The Queensland Writers Centre hasn’t posted a new prompt for the Right Left Right Competition, so I’ve got one for...

6. Irrepressible

One Room – Many Doors One Room Story created a box, a context, edges, a container for the story to exist. The prompt and the timeline created boundaries for the...

1. Welcome

Tomorrow Starts Today I’m Ryker Young. Welcome to my online presence. I’ve done art all my life—drawing, painting, writing songs, and playing music. Now I write...

2. The Room Talks Back

Fossicking When I was about 14 years old, my Mum, my brother and I went on a holiday, fossicking for sapphires. We spent two days digging in the mud in craters, hauling...

3. Doing Laundry

Potentiality Here’s another draft of the short story for the Right Left Write project.It’s still not there,but I wiped plenty of words. There’s a few shiny...

4. The Big Helps the Little

Out of the Blue There’s still two weeks before the story is due,and I haven’t been able to shake the feelingthat more can be gotten out of this month’s...

5. Drafts from the Dust

One more for the Road Intro – Squeezing it out., Abstraction turning to look at itself, shedding its skin to reveal a new creature. From where? The Urn –...