Bi-Monthly Creative Pieces

These pieces are specifically curated for this website. Unlike the portfolio section, where those pieces were written for classes and with specific themes and genres. The pieces found here will jump around depending on my muse but nonetheless creative writing pieces.


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Wayward Soldier

A child born in a dystopia produces strange and terrible results. More of a micro-fiction than short story.

Photo credit: @pookadook

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Losing Time and Tabula Rasa

Lucy goes for a follow-up after weird bloodwork results.

The photo is creepy but it is not a horror story.

Photo credit: @scottrodgerson

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A little idea bopping around my head

I’ve been busy with submissions and workshopping so here’s an idea that’s refused to leave but doesn’t fit in with any themes.

(Photo credit: Mark Fletcher-Brown @markfb)

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The Boogeyman P2

The thrilling conclusion to the “Boogeyman” hosts a lot of smells and concise world building, if I went too ham it wouldn’t feel like a short story.

Photo credit: @id23

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The Boogeyman P1

[“I haven’t been sleeping,” I say to the women across from me. I stare intently at her eyes knowing if I don’t I’ll see it out of the corner of my eye. Lingering. ]

Photo credit: @julianmokzth

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We can be more than they make us.

I’ve been in a writing slump lately, so I’m trying to nudge it slowly. This little snippet helped but it might be a good start to a full-length short story some time in the future.

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Desolate Poetry Collection

Photo credit: Martin Martz @martz90

This is a small poetry collection features loneliness/desolation. It will most likely be added to in the future.

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Otherworldlies P3: A Bloody Finale

Otherworldlies final part. Duck is not happy, but at least the world continues on. (Credit to Kyrylo Kholopkin @kholopkin for the picture)

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Otherworldies P1: Budget cuts

There is a hidden warehouse which deals with -mancers or otherworldlies who manipulate people and the world, a bookkeeper is tasked to find one despite lacking the training. Follow Duck as they try.

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