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.
Wayward Soldier
A child born in a dystopia produces strange and terrible results. More of a micro-fiction than short story.
Photo credit: @pookadook
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
I made my first reading journal and here’s how I did it!
I made my own reading journal out of an old notebook I bought, I share my tips and tricks on how to make your own.
I also talk about resolutions and how scam adjacent they can seem.
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)
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
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
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.
Girl’s Trip, Gore, and Goners.
A girl’s camping trip into the woods to start off the Fall season!
Photo credit to @tonibenlliure
A (Personal) Crisis
You ever think about the state of the world and write a sad poem about it?
Return; or, Can you Truly Take a Break from Adventuring?
Tila the Legendary Hero takes a break.
(photo credit to @tengyart
Respite; or, Taking a Vacation Shouldn’t Concern the Kingdom
Tila the Legendary Hero, famed for her greatness and her feats in strength, wants to take a vacation.
(photo credit to @michalmatlon
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.
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)
Otherworldlies P2: Under-qualified and Over-worked
Part 2 to the “Otherworldlies” wherein Duck takes a walk and meets a friend in a weird shape.
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.
Darlene’s Creature Comforts.
Darlene hasn’t been well but Rebecca Sternly understands her, even if she doesn’t believe her.