This is a short story I wrote for my Advanced Fiction Writing class. I hope you enjoy! July 22, 1883 My dearest Alice, I want to tell you that I’m doing all right. That I’m content living out of this cramped little train car I bought from the conductor, sleeping on a bedroll on the … Continue reading Derailed
Short Stories
Eat or Be Eaten
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
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
“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”
“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”