“You’ll never get me to tell you where the jewels are,” the child said. She leaned back and smirked. So starts my short story A Diamond in Her Eye about a precocious little girl who also happens to be a jewel thief. How, you might ask? She is a shape-shifter. The story came about after one of those police procedurals on television where the detectives lean on the accused. I thought the twist of having…
I started writing poetry as a cheat of sorts; I could write a compact story very quickly. My sister Debbie is the poet in the family. I do my best. She writes beautiful, heartfelt prose that makes you think. She was the one that explained Robert Frost’s “Two Roads” poem to me so that I understood it was about his decision not to go to war. I thought it had to do with walking in…
This is a short story about a group of people at a settlement conference: a sort of preliminary attempt to close out a lawsuit before a trial. Most of the settlement’s are managed by previous judges, so they know what will fly in front of a jury, and what won’t fly.
You spent all day working, tossed the ball with the dog, watched some TV, and now you want to sleep. You nod off quickly only to awaken at midnight to the howling of your dog. Then your dog does something unusual: it starts talking to you. What happens when you suddenly get life advice from your dog? Do you take it? Do you listen? Those are some of the questions I tackled in this short…
The voices constantly interrupt me. So I started writing down their conversations. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXf206WGg24[/embedyt] Other Writings You May Like Author Reading: Greenhouse in the Sky Author Reading: Poetry Author Reading: A Diamond in Her Eye Author Reading: Sincere Advice for The Man of the House
An introduction into my writing process using prompts and an author reading of the flash fiction piece Greenhouse in the Sky. Other Writings You May Like Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic Author Reading: Poetry Author Reading: A Diamond in Her Eye Author Reading: The Voices in My Head