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Eat or Be Eaten

December 16, 2020 / tlapointe314 / Leave a comment

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

December 9, 2020 / tlapointe314 / Leave a comment

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”

June 14, 2019June 3, 2019 / tlapointe314 / Leave a comment

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”

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 / tlapointe314 / Leave a comment

*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”

“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”

“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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