I bungled the first manuscript I ever wrote. After a lot more practice, I know how to fix the story. This is what I'm doing.
1.6k modern fantasy short story. Originally written in 2018. Sidney does not so much walk out of her last final as let the crowd bear her along. The auditorium empties step by step, incrementally, and she feels like putting her…
Some mechanical sound rumbled across the hills the day Gila National Forest burned. Lawry hiked towards the blaze with a dead cellphone, leaving his stalled out car behind.
What “Lacquer” taught me as a writer is that a game of cards can’t end until you show your hand or fold.
This 4600 word short story, written in 2018, imagines a future that feels closer every day. I dragged it out of my folder of old projects because certain current events have made the themes feel topical again.
Adult dark fantasy, 1.5k. POV character uses they/them pronouns. Content warning for gore.
It took some doing to get my partner, Helge, to house hunt. We live in downstate Illinois. As someone who grew up in Austin, where $200,000 gets you a closet with an exposed lightbulb, I thought the prices here were…