Tag: WritersLife

• November 26, 2023

  Holidays & Hot Toddies

  While I love the summer months, particularly because as a teacher I have loads more free time, the holidays still hold a special place in my heart. Having lived in Oregon all my life, I’ve noticed that the state’s fall, winter, and springs often feel very similar and blur into each other. The most noticeable…
• November 19, 2023

  Works in Progress: 2023

  I have always been afraid of announcing new projects because “What if I don’t finish it?” Well, it’s come to my attention that it is going to happen anyway, and some people actually care. So here are some of the projects I have been working on this year outside of Hypersonic Express and NaNoWriMo. Part…
• November 5, 2023

  NaNoWriMo Begins

  The end of October and beginning of November is one of my favorite parts of the year. Fall is a wonderful and magical time. Part of this is because of the witchy season, and part of this is because of the coming of the holidays, but mainly it is because it is a highly motivating…
• October 29, 2023

  Of Teeth and Dreams

  A short story of whimsical horror in time for Halloween. The Dream Fairy leaned over the old wooden headboard and touched their hand to the tip of their long beak of a nose in anticipation. They held a golden butterfly net in one hand and stared down at the toddler below them. The toddler with…
• 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 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…
• June 16, 2023

  Hello, World

  I first started writing in elementary school. Back then I used my weekly vocabulary words to form a series of often nonsensical events, such as when “The brown cow went to town to meet the clown with the frown.” Since then I’ve spent my time becoming a high school English teacher, adopting two black cats,…