2014
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Writing Challenges
Oct 25
Next month begins a new writing challenge: the National Novel Writing Month 50,000-words in 30 days challenge!
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Why Fiction
Aug 5
A close friend of mine asked me the other day why I “waste so much time” with fiction.
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Sacrificing for a Glimpse of Beauty
Jun 1
How often do you stop to admire the beauty around you? How often do you go out of your way to find it?
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Stories and Bias
May 10
I think that a somewhat anonymous literature anthology would be an interesting experiment.
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Valentine’s Day
Feb 14
In high school, I wrote a short, 4-stanza poem titled My Beloved that no one really understood at the time. I was asked repeatedly who I’d written it for, and kept giving the cryptic answer, “I don’t know yet.” Fast forward a little over a decade and I finally met the women for whom this…
2010
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Things Found in the Forest – Part 1
Nov 8
Chris never wanted to join the Boy Scouts. He has slept through breakfast, his boot is soaked, and now he’s facing a two-mile hike to the end of the cape with a map and compass he doesn’t know how to use.
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Coffee Shop – Part 1
Jan 25
Marcy wakes on a bright winter morning certain it will be a fantastic day. She stops at her favorite café to treat the office to coffee, as she does every week, though Chris the barista insists her coworkers never return the favor.
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Bread Run
Jan 18
Two in the morning, out of bread and on the way to the corner store, the narrator meets a half-shaved, half-starved dog with one demand: a sandwich.
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A Drop in a Bucket
Jan 11
Lord Julius Antony lays siege to the city of Momes, smiling in foreknowledge of his victory. Inside the walls, King Marcus Packard expects a long siege. Antony knows better: by sunrise, no one in Momes will be alive.
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Advent of Evil – Part 10 of 10
Jan 4
Alan has lied to his friend for the first time in his life. Richard has found Cari. In the final chapter, IT strains against weakening chains as the reckoning comes to solitary confinement.