When I got up this morning, I knew the topic for this season’s Writers Weekly 24-hour short story contest would be waiting in my email inbox. In previous contests I’ve been excited to get to it straight away, but somehow today my enthusiasm had waned. I read all my other email first and checked Bloglines too before finally reading the topic – in summary, it included a strange object in an old toy shop, and a word limit of 900 words, nice and short.
My strategy from here was to let …