{"id":1486,"date":"2019-09-12T10:08:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:08:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:08:44","slug":"50-word-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/2019\/09\/12\/50-word-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Word Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every month the Scottish Book trust runs a &#8216;Fifty Word Fiction&#8217; competition.\u00a0 At the end of August P5A had a go and entered some of our compositions.\u00a0 Unfortunately we didn&#8217;t have any winners this time but all the entrants received an email thanking them for their words.\u00a0 If you would like to have a go at this month&#8217;s competition please click on the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishbooktrust.com\/50-word-fiction\">50 word fiction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the entries we submitted:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Baking Mystery<\/strong> by Sam Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<p>I was baking a cake and I went to the shops to get some ingredients.\u00a0 When I came back everything was gone.\u00a0 It was confusing.\u00a0 Then the door of the cupboard creaked open and I walked around the table to see what was there and then\u2026everything went black.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big disaster<\/strong> by Adam Taylor<\/p>\n<p>As I entered the bakery I smelt the cupcakes and bread mixed to make the sweetest smell.\u00a0 The factory was enormous -trays and trays of freshly baked goods.\u00a0 The factory began to rumble, the icing fell onto the floor flooding the factory.\u00a0 I ran out.\u00a0 The factory exploded.\u00a0 Kaboom!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cream disaster<\/strong> by Ben Margiotta<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAHHHHH!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was cream all over the town.\u00a0 It was like a flood but of course cream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are we going to do??!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cream got bigger and faster!!!\u00a0 The police came bursting through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re saved!\u201d everybody screamed repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cupcake World<\/strong> by Aimee Watson<\/p>\n<p>When I woke up I saw a giant cupcake in my room.\u00a0 I walked up to it and I got teleported to cupcake world.\u00a0 I ate twenty one cupcakes and then I felt sick.\u00a0 My sick somehow turned into rainbows.\u00a0 I liked that.\u00a0 Then I ate more cupcakes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cupcake Island<\/strong> by Flo Kirkpatrick<\/p>\n<p>One day I was on my sponge boat.\u00a0 It was rocking a bit more than usual.\u00a0 The sea was made out of creamy blue icing.\u00a0 The waves got bigger and suddenly the sponge tipped.\u00a0 I fell on a sponge island.\u00a0 I stood up.\u00a0 What should I do next?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every month the Scottish Book trust runs a &#8216;Fifty Word Fiction&#8217; competition.\u00a0 At the end of August P5A had a go and entered some of our compositions.\u00a0 Unfortunately we didn&#8217;t have any winners this time but all the entrants received an email thanking them for their words.\u00a0 If you would like to have a go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/2019\/09\/12\/50-word-fiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50 Word Fiction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp211617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}