Chapter Three of the Declan and Charlie Cowriting Project, written with Harriet Stuart. Declan made Charlie wait in the front room of his apartment, a mixture of parlour, kitchen, dining room, and study that could only exist in tight city living quarters. Declan didn't bother to keep anything clean, which didn't help matters. His modeling … Continue reading Chapter Three: Declan
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“A Study in You”
*Warning: Some disturbing content*I wrote this as a character study for the Iowa Young Writers' Studio a few years ago. It follows a budding serial killer on the anti-social personality disorder (commonly known as sociopathy or psychopathy) spectrum discovering herself--kind of like a really twisted coming of age story? This also has ties to my … Continue reading “A Study in You”
The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Cigarette
A Lesson on the Importance of Continuity Photo by Irina Iriser on Pexels.com Charlie O'Brian and Declan Falker, title characters of their novel, have the unfortunate 1920s habit of smoking. I'm just going to tell you right now, characters who smoke are just flat out troublemakers. At least in my book. This book was a … Continue reading The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Cigarette
Chapter Two: Charlie
I present to you Chapter Two of the Charlie and Declan cowriting project, written with Harriet Stuart. Find Chapter One here. Charlie flopped down on her bed and examined the pocket watch she—no, Katriona—had snitched off of Declan Erikson. It felt so long ago now… had it just been last night? The watch wasn't what … Continue reading Chapter Two: Charlie
“A Journey Through the Underdark”
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”
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”
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
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
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”
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”