I usually don't comment on my own work, but this piece bears commenting. I really don't know what to think of it (read: gimme feedback!). I have not changed the text much from the original copy besides some basic editing and paragraphing (I didn't really know how to paragraph dialogue back then, but heck I … Continue reading The Oath – A Short Story
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Unsated Instincts – Sunday Photo Fiction (01JAN2016)
Walls were usually there to keep people out, not in. The balcony door was sealed shut; Adalie couldn’t even step outside to feel the rain. Hugo, the shady butler, guarded the gates of the mansion, blocking her escape. It had been like this for more than a year. Adalie thought things would be different as a … Continue reading Unsated Instincts – Sunday Photo Fiction (01JAN2016)
Career Change – A Short Story
Ulfar watched the smoke billow up from the smoldering corpse of the pillaged hamlet. The air was thick with the smell of sweat, blood, and death. But the joy of it all was lost. When he was young, Ulfar had loved to watched the fire dance across the thatched roofs, to hear the final chorus … Continue reading Career Change – A Short Story
Wonder Lost- Three Line Tales, Week 48
Sophia didn't know why her daddy wasn't there; he always joined the family at the cabin for the Fourth. Several weeks ago he left Sophia and her mom, boarding a plane with many other people, all dressed in green. The fireworks lost their wonder without him; Sophia dropped the sparkler into the water and watched … Continue reading Wonder Lost- Three Line Tales, Week 48
Concocting Vengeance
"Is this the one? The one that makes the vampires burn? Good, then whip me up a poison; I have someone to meet." *This is a response to Three Line Tales, Week Forty-Three
The Mountain, Part 1
Digging through my archives, I found this little gem. This was my final project for my second level short story class in college. I remember the instructor because he looked remarkably like J.J. Abrams before Abrams was a thing. We read Revolutionary Road in that class and the rest of my peers were trying their … Continue reading The Mountain, Part 1
The Stranger – A Short Story
I have been digging through the files on my old hard drive and discovered some little gems. This is a story I wrote back in college as part of a short story writing class. Peer-reviewed work from school cannot be any worse than the raw stuff I publish here daily, right? This is the story … Continue reading The Stranger – A Short Story
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