This is the second short story that I wrote for my creative writing class this semester. I had a lot of fun writing a heist story featuring an ambitious chemistry student, a crazy cat lady, and a Chad, and I hope you enjoy reading it! My car breaks down twenty minutes before I’m supposed to … Continue reading Eat or Be Eaten
Original Pieces
A Tiny Glass Bottle
This is a story I wrote for my creative writing class this semester. It also serves as backstory for one of my current projects--it takes place between the first and second books of the fantasy series. Tiernan's relationship with food in this story is obviously fictionalized in a lot of ways, but aspects of it … Continue reading A Tiny Glass Bottle
Chapter Seven: Declan
To catch up on the rest of the Charlie and Declan Cowriting Project, find the other chapters here.Fun fact about this chapter: the Sherlock Holmes references are nods to my solo writing project Detectives and Debutantes, a Sherlock Holmes retelling which features a fake psychic by the name of Niko Devon as a supporting character. … Continue reading Chapter Seven: Declan
Chapter Six: Charlie
Check out the rest of the Charlie and Declan Cowriting Project here! Written with Harriet Stuart. “Care to dance?” Charlie held her hand out to the half-drunk man sitting alone in the club, offering him her most flirtatious smile. He took her hand and followed her out to the dance floor. He wasn’t Declan. He … Continue reading Chapter Six: Charlie
Chapter Five: Declan
So this chapter of Charlie and Declan requires a touch of backstory. This book is technically part of the second generation of Falker books--Gen 1 is comprised of Harriet Stuart's solo book project, following Aster Grey and Erik Falker. These take place two hundred years in the future, after an AI designated as Omnometry has … Continue reading Chapter Five: Declan
“A Change in the Winds”
This was a random writing exercise in which I blindly picked three words from the dictionary--exact, meadow, and verse--and wrote a short story from it. It's a little bit odd, but I hope you enjoy it! The world was changing. I knew it, my friends and family knew it, and the Council knew it. … Continue reading “A Change in the Winds”
“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
“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”