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On this page you will find links to random short pieces I've written throughout the years,
including short stories, poems, and things that don't really fall into a category. Most of the stuff here was done
for fun, as creative writing assignments, or as experiments. I don't consider any of them publication-worthy and most
of them are unedited. All pieces here are original, and I'm giving them
a blanket rating of PG-13, though I wouldn't consider most of them
even that high. Use the links below to go to each piece's page.
Aristotle Dies! - I took an astronomy course once where we were given an incredibly open-ended assignment: write something having to do with Aristotle's contributions to the way people thought of the universe. This is what I wrote. Bad Habits - Something I wrote for a prompt. 673 words, contemporary mainstream. Bander - Originally written as part of a word count exercise on a now-defunct message board. 1,057 words, fantasy/supernatural. The Charge - Another result of a word count exercise. 1,390 words, fantasy. Conversation - A short story that I wrote for my final project in my creative writing class in college. 2,638 words, contemporary mainstream. Elaine's Song - Written for my college creative writing class. 886 words, contemporary mainstream. everyone's a poet - I was once on a board infested with emo kids who subjected us all to their bad poetry. This was my response to that. The Golden Rule - Another writing exercise and sort of a precursor to my 2008 NaNoWriMo story. 1,262 words, contemporary mainstream. Gooden - A "first line" exercise, where the first line from a previously-written work is selected and then used as a prompt for the rest of the story. 734 words, contemporary mainstream. Hidden Corners: A Project - My pretentious name for a challenge I'm undertaking where I write 100 original stories and/or poems centering around one theme and based off 100 separate prompts. I chose to write about the characters in my original fantasy trilogy, The Myrrost'a Prophecy, focusing on pasts and aspects of their lives that aren't in the novels. Once Upon a Time - A random thing that is outdated now because Indiana has switched to Daylight Savings Time. But included here out of protest. One More Dying Piece - A short story that's partly autobiographical and partly not. 1,067 words, contemporary mainstream. Postmodernism - This is stupid. Really stupid. It's not really even about postmodernism, but was written in a fit of frustration while I was doing a reading assignment for a history of photography class. The first two lines are straight from that class's incredibly pretentious textbook which I hated so very much. The Rain is Nothing - This was written for the prompt "It can't rain all the time." My response was that it totally can. 954 words, contemporary mainstream. Rules For Being a Biology Major - Another random thing, once again taking a potshot at something that really irritated me when I was in college. Utopia - My name is Thomas More. 884 words, urban fantasy. Vestre - From the fine tradition where I can't think of a title and just name it after the protagonist. 1,223 words, fantasy. Walking - I'm not much of a poet, but this one really wanted to be written down. Year: A Haiku Series - A series of four haikus originally written for a creative writing class assignment.
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