Date: 29 September 2020
Written For: Swinburne University (LIT10003 Reading and Writing Genre Texts)
Format: Writing Exercise
Genre: Literary Fiction, Fantasy
Word Count: 304
Author’s Note: From week 2 onwards in Reading and Writing Genre Texts, each week we were given a genre and a prompt and told to write 300 word stories and put them online on Canvas for discussion. Mine are speed drafts that I’ve touched up a little bit, so they’re less refined than they could have been, and most exceeded the word count. Because I’m a fantasy nerd, I combined the weekly genre with fantasy unless the genre was already fantastical or if fantasy was incompatible with the story I thought of.
For week 8, the genre was literary fiction, and the prompt was “jasmine”. For this one, I had the idea to tie this story in with The Wrong Magic, which I had just submitted for a short story assignment, and to adapt a line from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Sam Huffer 