Hell
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Ars Poetica
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Apocalypse
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What if?
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Unlocked Patron Posts
Given that many of my posts for patrons have now passed the three month point where they are no longer exclusive, I decided to make a post centering the now unlocked posts so that non-patron readers of my blog can now enjoy the poems and short stories that I have written. I have linked to […]
Fancy Meeting You Here
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The Mattress
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The Innkeeper Part II
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In the Eyes of Suzanne B. McKenzie
Slice of life. First person. Child narrator. 1420 words. _______________________________________________________________________ “You just landed on boardwalk, while I have four houses. That’s $1700.” Robbie’s doing his stupid smirk thing again. (I just learned that word last week!) Robbie is my older brother. He is a whole ten years older than me, and he don’t like playing […]
Better for the Horse: A Medieval Welsh Meet-Cute
I’ve always been a little bit obsessed with the story of Rhiannon, who is one of my favorite figures in Welsh lore. The following is a retelling of a small section of The Mabinogi (part of the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle) and is a retelling of how Rhiannon first encounters her husband […]
August 2020 Newsletter for Patrons
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The Last Train
Flash Fiction. 707 words. Complete. CW: Discussion of domestic violence and suicide. Five strangers are waiting for the last train on a bitter winter night. One of them is Nat, a bubbly young college student who had just started her second semester at the local university in her hometown. She was trying to engage in […]
The Innkeeper: Part I
The following prose is the beginning of The Innkeeper. The story takes place roughly 2000 years in the future, in a world not entirely like our own. I eventually intend to expand it into a full-length novel, but for now I will be releasing it in serial format on this website for my patrons. The […]
POST AND BEFORE a.k.a. I want breakfast
Many people have grown up reading the books of Theodor Seuss “Ted” Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. Fond memories of The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham might come to mind. One book that I was particularly fond of was The Butter Battle. Coincidentally, The Butter Battle was required reading in one of my high school classes, because one thing […]
A Promise
This poem came to me in a dream. I was asleep one moment, and awake the next, this poem fully formed in my mind. I rushed for pen and paper, greatly disturbing the person sleeping next to me at the time, to write it all down.