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Month: May 2019

“A Journey Through the Underdark”

May 31, 2019May 30, 2019 / tlapointe314 / Leave a comment

A Dungeons & Dragons storyFor those of you familiar with the role play game Dungeons & Dragons, it is typical to write up some form of backstory for the character that you are playing in the game. My character for one of my latest campaigns had dissociative identity disorder--colloquially known as multiple personality disorder. The … Continue reading “A Journey Through the Underdark”

“A Night Out”

May 26, 2019June 9, 2020 / tlapointe314 / Leave a comment

This is an excerpt from my work in progress novel, Preternatural Assassins' League. When Sam, an unstable assassin with borderline personality disorder, falls in love with a free-spirited ethics student, she finds the courage to defect from her organization, but quickly learns that her abusive superiors aren't going to let her go without a fight. … Continue reading “A Night Out”

“Outside an Orphanage”

May 26, 2019May 27, 2019 / tlapointe314 / Leave a comment

This is a piece of flash fiction that I wrote for a creative writing class a few years ago. I love the image of a dark street with a single gas lamp above, and the quietness of a devastating choice. This was fun to write, and I hope you enjoy it!             The gas lamp … Continue reading “Outside an Orphanage”

Charlie and Declan – Chapter One

May 25, 2019June 2, 2019 / tlapointe314 / 1 Comment

This is the first chapter of a novel that Harriet Stuart and I have written. It takes place in the early 1920s, following Declan Falker, a time traveler who falls in love with flapper girl Charlie O'Brian and has to deal with the consequences. Enjoy! Chapter One: Declan Declan let the noise of the club … Continue reading Charlie and Declan – Chapter One

The Mental Health Series

May 24, 2019July 14, 2019 / tlapointe314 / Leave a comment

Search "mental health" for me on your browser. Go on. I'll wait. On bing.com, you get 224,000,000 results. On google.com, you get 1,410,000,000 results. That's a lot of results. And like anything on the internet, how do you know which of those 1,634,000,000 results are reliable? Behold my decent looking brain sketch and god awful … Continue reading The Mental Health Series

“Only Stories in the End”

May 21, 2019May 27, 2019 / tlapointe314 / Leave a comment

This was a short story that I wrote that won first place in the Betty Field Memorial Youth Writing Contest a few years ago. There were certain words and phrases we needed to use within it, such as the phrase "At that moment" within the first paragraph, "candelabra," "asylum," "embellish," "loquacious," "quandary," and "tangible."          I … Continue reading “Only Stories in the End”

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