A Portal of Fiction

Date: 8 March 2019

Written For: Swinburne University (LIT20001 Reading, Writing and Criticism)

Format: Writing Exercise

Genre: Slice of Life, Fantasy

Word Count: 477

Author’s Note: This short story was written for a quick writing exercise for my Reading, Writing and Criticism class. We were instructed to try different writing exercises and methods. For this one, the exercise was to take something familiar and make it strange. I chose my routine for reading in bed.