Margaretatwood Stories

You could die. You could die from the day you were born to the day just before you die. Anytime before and after, you were certainly not alive. The cosmic irony that we all can never understand is that the point of our lives was to live and then to die. And death is the greatest retribution. Lemontree Aragona was conceived on June 5th in the future. She is the sixth generation of the Cornucopia, an exclusively bred class of people that live in Nova Leviathan that once was Russia until the Nuclear War. For these children, there was no time before that war, that was the beginning of them and the end of the past.

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.

When her family finds themselves down on their luck, a hard-working and ambitious teen sets out on a quest to help them, risking her own freedom by protesting the New Order's abolishment of women's rights. Commissioned by THE HANDMAID'S TALE, a new Hulu Original series premiering April 26th.

Outcasts of the Order live in the wilds, barely sustained, but driven to stay alive by love, by hope, and by forming a new society: one based off of humanity over all else.

He doesn't even know her name. And she hasn't asked for his, not that it matters. He wouldn't tell her anyway. And it's probably for the best. The less they know about each other, the better. As it stands now, he knows more than he would ever want to know about her and her freeze-dried groom stashed in the unit that he just purchased. Sam wonders if she knows anything about him other than what she knows of his skill in the bedroom, or from what he told her back at the storage units. But then, does it really matter? ~~~ Please read the "The Freeze-Dried Groom" first before reading this entry. It really is a wonderful short story (Margaret Atwood's short story, that is) and I only hope that my little fanfic does it a bit of justice. http://www.wattpad.com/71192313-the-freeze-dried-groom-one-of-the-nine-tales-in Good luck to everyone else who's entered!

Laugh at a man, go to jail. How the women in this particular institution find the hope and humor to get through their situation. Inspired by Desiree Fairooz, written for the @Hulu #myhandmaidstale contest.

Clyde has been patient. And he hasn't been feeling like himself lately. But what can a dead man do, except wait? This short story was an entry in the Freeze-Dried Fiction Contest with Margaret Atwood.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last fiction competition! A prequel to Margaret Atwood's latest novel, The Heart Goes Last, and an entry in the Heart Goes Last Fiction Contest. In the days before the great economic collapse, Conor and his brother Stan share a few drinks at the local bar, PixelDust. But the differences that have shaped their past become even more clear as they face each other in a drinking showdown.

The midwife will call it mercy. She will hold a pillow over his face or put him outside for the frigid air to correct this mistake. He was never meant to be mine, but in that moment, I understand how much I love him.

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

Dear Earth, dear beloved Earth 2114, It is your Scribbler moon writing to a distant future you. Every time you circuit your axel I see, I hear, I remember and beneath my grey surface I scribble the words describing the extensive life and lives of everything that is within your thin layer of air. I must tell you; You worry me Will I scribble more of your history? Margaret Atwood's Dear 2114 contest.

THE FORGOTTEN WILL RISE FROM RUIN. A tale of two lonely isles, separating those chosen and those forgot. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. -Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man #MyHandmaidsTale Contest Entry

Margaret Atwood's first graphic novel, Angel Catbird, tells the story of a hybrid human-cat-owl, Angel Catbird, and his peculiar identity conflict. Should he save that baby robin, or should he eat it? Read a synopsis of Angel Catbird Volume 1 and take a look at the excerpts posted here. Then write a new caption and/or dialog for the illustration and post it to this page, and you could be a winner! Four chances to WIN!

My entry into Margaret Atwood's #Freeze-Dried Fiction contest. Read Margaret Atwood's story, the Freeze Dried Groom, then read my story as a prequel. When Dr. Claire Ledus loses her sister in a tragic accident, her life is changed forever. As she grieves, she struggles to forgive the man whose carelessness cut her sister's life short. Is Clyde Davis a monster, or simply a man who made a terrible mistake? Perhaps Clyde deserves Claire's forgiveness. But when Claire learns the truth about her sister's life after her death, she is no longer certain she can forgive herself.

An Essay on the book 'Oryx and Crake'

My submission for the #myhandmaidstale contest!

Top 25 Submission for #MyHandmaidsTale No matter how much you fear something, you have to stand up to face it at some point.

A series of the deep minded.

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.

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.