ICA news: Maria tops in creative writing
Writers had to compose 2,000 words under the title ‘Peace at Last’. Maria didn’t name her two characters — they were simply the Husband and the Wife.
The focus is their different reactions to a wedding invitation and to the event itself. The two have different personalities — he, an ‘outgoing and gregarious individual, full of innate bonhomie’, who liked to ‘engage strangers in conversation in supermarkets, bank queues or cafes’, she was ‘stout and retiring, always carefully made-up, all traces of grey carefully masked in her dark brown hair’.
