Weekly Writing – April 16 2022
The wind chime lashed and clattered against the house’s brick siding and the blue sky. Too violent for melody, spinning the metal bird that embellished it like a sparrow in…
Weekly Writing – April 9 2022
How long had she been shuffling those wastes in her grimy environmental suit? The clock had told her at first, of course, smartly, to the second, but some speck of…
Weekly Writing – April 2 2022
She lifted her boots high through the muck and rotten ice, but the field still seemed set on swallowing her if it could. She held her spade overhead as the…
Weekly Writing – March 26 2022
The first face surfaced on a Wednesday morning, sepia with oncoming storm. Or at least, that was when he first noticed it, carrying his coffee with him into the yard,…
Weekly Writing – March 19 2022
If anyone ever tells you it’s easy to get rid of a ghost, well, first, ask them if they mean just the regrets that haunt us all or a real…
Anthology Announcement
I am pleased to finally be able to announce that one of my short stories is being included in an anthology of weird horror, set to be published this summer…
Bonus Writing
This was going to be a sprint, but Daylight Savings Time turned it into more of a drag. Oh well - speed is ultimately far less important than making it…
Weekly Writing – March 12 2022
The last of the lights belowdecks had died an hour ago. The last of the screams not long after that. Silence creaked across the bow to where she sat. With…
Weekly Writing – March 5 2022
The goal of this exercise is to sit down and write full speed ahead for a set period of time without hesitating or going back to make corrections. It is…
Weekly Writing
It is my intention to post at least one short piece of original fiction on this site per week, most likely a quick drabble or a timed sprint. The practise…