Margaretatwood Stories

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!

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 :)

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!

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.

[A counterintuitive approach to the #myhandmaidstale challenge] A broken smile twisted her features into something cruel. "I'm the one who's going to make your people pay for what you did." || if you like this story, please vote and comment! ||

In a dystopian future, artificially created girls are raised by paid people, but are already imprinted to their future mates. One day Lee, a struggling and lonely writer, finds a lost young imprint who is looking for her imprinted. Lee starts to think about different ways to care. I made the cover. Not great. Wordcount: 498

Write the future with Margaret Atwood If you could write a story for a time capsule, one that wouldn’t be opened until the year 2114, what would you say? To celebrate the creation of Katie Paterson's artwork Future Library, we’re hosting the “Dear 2114” Future Library writing contest with Margaret Atwood. The Writing Contest Write a story based on one of the following prompts to enter the "Dear 2114" Future Library writing contest: *Dear 2114 - Write a story about the advice you would give the world in 2114? *This is 2114 - Write a story about what the world be like when the Future Library is opened in 2114? *Pandora's Room - Write what you imagine are in the stories of the Future Library that will be first read in 2114? Keep reading for full contest details and how to enter!

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.

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!

A series of the deep minded.

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.

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

#HeartGoesLastFic

This is an entry for the Freeze-Dried Fiction contest. Please read "The Freeze-Dried Groom" by Margaret Atwood before reading this story! You can find it here: http://www.wattpad.com/story/23381058-the-freeze-dried-groom-one-of-the-nine-tales-in Sam has been living comfortably within his delusions, unaware that the people closest to him--his business partner, Ned, and his wife, Gwyneth, are not at all what they seem to be. He comes face to face with a scene that undermines his entire worldview, and the identity that he has so carefully constructed. Read this sequel to "The Freeze-Dried Groom" to find out what happens next!

Diana can't think of an idea for a writing competition entry. That is, not until she has lunch with her best friend. Entry for the Dear 2114 competition.

#MyHandmaidsTale In a dystopian society, humanities last hope comes from a sick twist of fate. 493 words

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