Margaretatwood Stories

Have ever got stuck on a plot, a word, a scene or a story so much that you can't move forward? We as writers, believe everyone has been through that "phase". To counteract that stage and to boost our writing community(and the writer in us), we all need a boost, a push to keep at it. Keeping in mind, every Sunday, NewlyWrittenBooks are going to publish a writer's empowerment quote from writers across the world, to spark the writing bug within you. Cover made by the amazingly gifted @druidoflore :)

Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around—and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes. At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. Keep reading and be sure to enter The Heart Goes Last Fiction contest!

"As a child, I was one of those who buried treasures in jars, with the idea that someone, some day, might come along and dig them up. I found similar things while digging in the various gardens I have made: old nails, old medicine bottles, fragments of china plates... That is what the Future Library is like, in part: it will contain fragments of lives that were once lived, and that are now the past. But all writing is a method of preserving and transmitting the human voice." There’s a secret book that no one will read for 100 years. It is a book from the future, so it hasn’t been published yet. It is kept in a locked room, in a Norwegian library. There is a sacred grove that will provide the paper for its pages. And there are 100 authors who will write its secret stories. 100 years. 100 stories. 100 different writers. This is the Future Library (Framtidsbiblioteket). It is being created by Scottish artist Katie Paterson for the city of Oslo in Norway. When Katie had to choose the first writer to contribute the first story, she named Margaret Atwood, prizewinning author, poet, essayist, literary critic, and Wattpad’s official Fairy Godmother. Read Margaret's thoughts about her involvement in the project here. *Watch Margaret on Periscope on May 26th 2015 to witness the live event, and stay tuned for a special Wattpad writing contest coming soon!*

In a future where women's rights have been eradicated, resistance lives on in a woman strong enough to keep a secret, to pass on her carefully guarded knowledge to others, and to risk her life for the faint hope of freedom in the future...even if that freedom won't be her own.

Healthy babies were supposed to be a handmaid's salvation and security, but everyone finds the wastelands in the end.

Aba Greil has been declared Inhumanus. Collection: 400. an entry for the #myhandmaidstale contest

Azrah, a 12 year old Pakistani girl trapped in a country so war-spoiled that the air is unbreathable, is given a book for her 13th birthday. This book isn't like the ones hidden in her Mother's room or the ones that she uses in school, this one is from the far past. Scribbler Moon. Azrah doesn't know it, but that book will change everything, even when a repeating tragedy happens in Azrah's life. It'll teach her forgiveness, and show her what the world was like before 2114.

Eleanora's never actually seen Earth or even stepped foot on it. But she loves it all the same. This is 2114. ~Submission for Margaret Atwood's 2114 Writing Contest~

Two 13 year old girls go in search of an old camp legend and find more than they were looking for. A short story framed as a sequel to 'Death by Landscape' by Margaret Atwood.

It takes a con to know a con. Or possibly, it takes a woman meeting a con to figure out she’s married to a con. This is my entry for Margaret Atwood’s Freeze-Dried Fiction Contest. Take a look at Atwood’s story, THE FREEZE-DRIED GROOM, on which this story is based and then come back to mine. Thanks for reading!

Short story written as a piece for the Freeze Dried Fiction contest.

Several of my entries for Wattpad's #MyHandmaidsTale contest. (Disclaimer: I've never read the book or seen the miniseries-the contest rules stipulated that the writer couldn't use any specific characters or settings from either, so these stories are based on the novels' premise...)

495 Word Short Story - Failing to conceive, an Asian woman retreats into her invisible cloak. "It clings to me, squeezing like a metal band around my chest whenever we are around parents with babies and small children."

Trapped trying to find a way out. 6 people ,a large cage ,with no memory. Are they smart enough to find a way to escape? Find out and see , once you read this thrilling and romantic novel.

TOP FIVE WINNER for The Heart Goes Last Fiction Contest with Margaret Atwood, where we imagine what the lives of three characters were like before the great economic collapse. I've written about Veronica: A nineteen-year-old hooker at the Pixel Dust Bar, where Charmaine works as a waitress. Before the economy tanked and everyone lost money, she was a college student hoping to be a nurse. How did she meet her friend, Sandi? And how did their paths lead to the bar? In the novel, Veronica declares, "I work my ass off!" And yes - yes, she does. But that's no surprise, really, because in her life before the collapse, she did as well.

After the Third Civil War, the United States doesn't exist. There is unrest throughout the territories. Leaders have spoken up and been shot down. Ration cards and low morale keep the populace in place. The Resistance Movement, under mysterious leadership, has been recruiting and building its ranks, looking forward to the day where the country will once again be a free nation. Saoirse, the daughter of the original writer of the constitution after the Second Civil War, is returning home, attacked, and finds herself rescued by the resistance. Her mother wrote the constitution for the United Confederation after the Second Civil War. She based her script on the original constitution, with equal rights and sovereign voices given to each colony, each person endowed with personal rights. The Allied Commonwealth disagreed: all colonies should be equal under one common ruler, no one colony richer or more endowed, each person responsible for their neighbor, everyone equal. After the Third Civil War, no one had any rights. This government took all their rights, controlled their lives, and matched their partners. Then they executed any female helped restore after the Second Civil War. But there were resistors, fabled heroes, free or in hiding, and Saoirse had been trained to follow in her mother's legacy.

In which a young woman, faced with the economic and social collapse of her society struggles to find a way to stay afloat. A fanfiction for Margaret Atwood's story "The Heart Goes Last".

The room is silent, but only to me.