Category: Creative Writing

Do you like writing? Do you like challenges? Check out The Dueling Quill for a fun writing challenge/contest. It’s a project I’ve been helping out with and the more the merrier. Technorati Tags: creative writing, dueling, writing, writing challenge, writing contest

Write Fight is back and I’ve entered into this weeks battle! The challenge was to write a story using the title: “Death Comes with ________” where each writer could fill in the blank or use the word “Bananas.” I chose to write a story called “Death Comes with Jeff.” If you can take a few …

🙁 If you want to read the story, just follow the link below. I had a bitch of a time cutting down my original first draft the the word limitation, so there are lots of bits that didn’t make it into this version, but I doubt that I will do anything more with this one, …

Alexandra was seven years old and refused to answer to anything but “Alex.” She was terrified of thunderstorms, ever since she could remember, even, she thought, before she could remember. Which was why she had very quietly, very deliberately, gotten out of bed, tip-toed down the hallway to check that her Grammy was asleep—and she …

The rain beat time on the car like a spastic jazz drummer. CJ pressed his head against the cool glass of the window and watched as streaks of land went by, dark upon black and made distant by the falling water. The car smelled of old hamburger grease and fake pine scent. For the first …

Thursdays are going to be an experiment in storytelling – where I’ll attempt to write a story or a novel or a series of interconnected stories that all take place in a town called Thistledown. Where is Thistledown? I’m not sure. I know that it is near a river, and not far from the ocean. …

an ill lit doorway splits darkness between stations inaccessible

stars fallen to the city, caught in neon and fluorescence, stealing light from the sky