Month: September 2023

• September 24, 2023

  Inspiration: Tobias Wolff

  Short stories are a love of mine, both to read and to write. My all time favorite short story author is Tobias Wolff. I’ve read over a dozen of his pieces and continue to use his work as an inspiration and model for my own. “Our Story Begins” is an excellent collection with some of…
• September 17, 2023

  An Origin Story

  This question goes around occassionally on social media: Who or what hurt you so bad that you became a writer? The question is generally meant in jest because a lot of writers do carry a lot of baggage, but I prefer to believe I chose to be a writer rather than that I was traumatized…
• September 10, 2023

  Hypersonic Express Digital Copies

  Thank you all for going on a journey with me for as much of the past 11 weeks as you were able. Flashes of the Hypersonic Express, Volume 1 is now complete. Each of the 10 flash fiction stories are available under Projects, along with the history and process of how the collection came to…
• September 3, 2023

  History of the Express

  Now that Flahes of the Hypersonic Express, Volume 1 is complete, I thought I would share some of my creative process. I started writing these flash fiction stories about nine years ago when I was in college and taking Oregon’s public transit every day. The people and sights inspired me, and I was looking for…