I’ve got little to say for this process, except that it all went by so fast, which kind of lends itself to what I ended up writing about. This started out as an idea for a horror story, but I started from the beginning and things just snowballed and I ended up on drawing on […]

Scroll past my preamble to read the story Fairy tales are a tough genre. Their demand for simplicity seems so restrictive, and it’s only made worse by the prompts and the word count restrictions. As an author, you want to delve into rich character detail and description, you want to run away with the flow […]

This is my first year entering the NYC Midnight Short Story Competition. I had literally never heard of such a thing until Friday, January 18th, about twelve hours before registration closed. I gave it a whole ten minutes of thought and entered, because I’m addicted to the natural high of low odds and instant regret. […]