Category 2022 SS Prompt 1: Jewel

Rosika would have let her 35th year go unmarked but her boyfriend booked a table at an ancient restaurant where she had wanted to eat for years.  He organised a childminder and told her that while he was walking the…...

A scientist on a desperate search for a stolen jewel has dire consequences for everyone involved.

I have been sitting in Accident and Emergency for two hours and ten minutes.  My phone rings – it is the office.  I left a voicemail first thing this morning to let them know I was going to miss work. …...

‘Am I getting more gummies today mummy?’ Amy loves her gummies, becuase even though they are good for her gummies, they taste yummy. Every day, she takes two to keep her healthy but when her and mummy travel, she always…...

I pace the checkered kitchen floor in tandem with the ticking of my grandfather’s clock, which stands tall in a nook in the adjacent hall. She’s probably sitting in the back seat of a white taxi cab, taking in the…...

“Do you know the difference between a gem and a jewel?” she asks. I don’t. It wouldn’t matter if I did, because she is going to tell me. I know this, and so I say nothing. She doesn’t notice. “A…...

Trying to save the world with the Jewel of prophecy, realizing that a vital element was missing all along.

In the five weeks since I joined Haven South, I’ve developed a habit of waking early and savouring the quiet calm that will soon disintegrate under the chatter of a hundred waking women. Closing my eyes, I imagine that I’m…...