Tag: WritersLife

• 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,…