Short Stories
As a writer who is constantly bouncing from story to story, short stories are a perfect way for me to hash out ideas in quick digestible pieces (well, quick is a bit of an overstatement, but you get the point).
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Published
by The Oakland Arts Review
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"Elias went completely still. He knew he should have kept flailing. He should have kicked and wriggled against the stranger’s grip. But he couldn’t."
Genre: Fantasy
Length: 3701 words
A man is left as an offering to a mysterious spirit.
Over The Logs
Genre: Fiction
Length: 3393 words
What can happen when a strange child guides others through the woods?
"Even the forest's ambiance fell away. Holding its breath. Hanging off of every word that spilled from the girl’s guilty mouth."
Award Winner!
Webster University, Freshman writing Contest
I Threw a Rock
Genre: Science Fiction
Length: 1895 words
A space being playfully throws a rock, accidently birthing the Earth.
"I doubt they even saw the extra stars hiding in the abstract folds littering their pocket of space. Those phantoms were reserved for me alone."
Dancing in the Mirror
Genre: Essay
Length: 997 words
I contemplate existence because of the urge to do a little jig.
"I think my body was mostly made for other people's benefit. I just use it to get around and sip honey when I’m craving something sweet."
April Showers
Genre: Fiction
Length: 612 words
A man takes a walk through the rain along side an unknown women.
"They stared blankly into the clouds overhead, ignoring the drops of water bulleting into them."
An Impassioned
Exercise on Make Up
"To truly write, I think you need to have passion. Isn’t that what essays are about? An
author feeling so inspired by a mundane object that they transform it into something meaningful?"
Genre: Essay
Length: 1049 words
A tired student is given a confusing task.
Starved
"'Then we shall all starve a slow death together,' she asserted. 'Unless you have it in you to lop off their little heads.'"
Genre: Fairy Tale
Length: 1577 words
A retelling of Hansel and Gretel from the father's perspective.
One Breakfast
Cupcake, Please
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Length: 4977 words
A customer enters a bakery looking for something sweet.
"As it was Saturday and my day off, I decided to treat myself to an early morning cookie, and I knew just the baker to harass for it."
Mother Raven
"Near a meager forest, there lived a family of Rafnaz, the raven-blooded. A mother, her husband, and three children; identical triplet girls Juniper, Besiana, and Velvette."
Genre: Fairy Tale
Length: 3366 words
Three little ravens are taken to a festival. Though they never get to see the end.
Ava The Golem
Genre: Fantasy
Length: 2744 words
An ambitious mage dips his fingers into a new artform
"He almost thought he imagined he saw a twitch of its finger before another part of it began to move."
Sprout
"Small vine-like plants with symmetrical leaves dripped from their throat like the opened ribcage of a snake."
Genre: Fantasy
Length: 1209 words
A forest fey finds their demise through misunderstanding
Award Winner!
Silver Key, Scholastic Writing Awards Contest
Not So Short Stories
Below are stories that took a bit more of my devotion and a lot more of my obsession. Some of the pieces in here are teasers for larger stories but are self-contained (and tantalizing) enough to sink your teeth into.
Remnants of the
Departed - Sections 1&2
"All days at Blue Valley are the same erosive torment, especially for Valorie Hughes, super senior and flunkee extraordinaire. Every class except basic biology is nothing but a public flogging."
Genre: Fiction
Length: 4080 words
Valorie and Renee have nothing in common. But that all changes after they die.
Bitter Root End
"A figure of a man stood nestled in the shadow just behind the door. Colorful veins of purple and orange twitched down his dark overcoat, faintly silhouetted in the dim kitchen light."
Genre: Fiction
Length: 14152 words
A secluded man is stalked by something in the forest. Something that smells death.