Vampire Vocab

Note: I wrote this story for a friend of mine who doesn’t feel heard, doesn’t feel alive. It’s kind of a surrealist story, and is very much a metaphor, which is not my usual style. I don’t think it does my friend justice, but I hope…I hope it means something to her. Her back was [...]

So, it kind of sucks…well, actually, it really does. It was an interesting premise, I thought, but poorly executed. Anyway, it was built on “can a class really destroy someone?”. I hear people saying things like “Trig is killing me!”, so I wrote the story based on that. I would have gone further, but unfortunately, [...]

I call you guinea pigs, my devoted or not-so-devoted readers because you are about to be subject to a short story. My short story. It’s not too late to turn back. …No? Brave soul. You see, my drop-dead gorgeous mother was talking to me the other day and she informed me that she had noticed [...]

Have you ever had a really weird dream that you totally don’t understand? They’re great short story fodder! If I ever have a weird dream, I might post it under the title Odd Dreams, so look out, because it’s about to get really freaky. I’ll start with last nights dream.   i wandered through the [...]

Jane finished her grocery shopping, cradling Sarah to her chest with one arm, pushing the cart with the other. She puts her items on the belt, and as the cashier rings them up, she rummages around in her purse, looking for her wallet. She finds it, and, in triumphantly pulling it out, pulls her amulet [...]

“Oh my god, Diana! Your outfit is ah-mazing!” shouted Kiara as I opened the door to step into her house. “Thanks! You look great, too.” I was practically bowled over by the overwhelming smell of chlorine as the other guests of the pool party came over to admire the shimmery, aqua-marine pool coverup that I [...]

I had the oddest dream last night that I was on a class trip to a museum, and my father came and I asked him about his trip to Germany (even though he hasn’t been to Germany, lately) and it led to the basis for the series of short stories I’m going to write. This [...]