Dear Jessica Brennan,
This week you let me know about the Hendricks Gin Marvellous Tiny Tales competition. Thank you. The website indicates that these are the instructions:
AN EPIC INVITATION TO THINK TEENSY
You are heartily encouraged to showcase your CREATIVITY by joining our monumentally MINI-SCULE story competition. The rules are quite simple. Or perhaps we should say, the rule is SIMPLE, as there is only one: write a story in three sentences or less. You may submit as many entries as your brain can concoct.
I thought I would share my three story submissions:
1
Maxwell the pinwheel salesman hated Mondays with the rules and regulations of early morning meetings augmented by the lingering stare of diminutive Madeline who peered at him from the next cubicle. How he longed for Sunday with its tulips and trumpets and sometimes crumpets. “Monday’s are miserable”, said Max.
2
In 1964, Miss Carmichael was on her way to work at the peanut butter factory when a helicopter fell from the sky and landed on her toe. She missed three buses before the crane arrived to lift it off. To this day, her arthritis plays up when she hears a whirlybird flying overhead.
3
Myrna Michaels, a plain, butcher’s widow lived above a variety store with her companion Roger a large furry centipede. On lovely summer evenings they would paint each other’s toenails while listening to Big Band music, then have one clumsy dance. Roger would say, “Sorry Myrna but I have 50 left feet”, and they would laugh and laugh.
You should enter too! It’s fun!
Love Mum xo
