Short Stories

A collection of the writing I have done throughout the years, in clubs, for contests, with friends, or on my own.

Saturday, July 20, 2019

The Broken Pipe: Author's Note

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Well, I don't think I'm going to finish my NaNoWriMo. I tried posting it here, but Blogger has horrible formatting (the text went of...
Monday, March 18, 2019

They Hit a Cloud and It Shattered

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While walking around campus, I overheard a phrase that I loved enough to make it a story. "They hit a cloud and it shattered." I...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Secret: Leaving in a Snowstorm

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Another day of Literary Buffs! This day we put 'secrets' (things that sound cool out without context) into a bucket and swapped the...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Cecilia and her Tears

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I tried going to another writing club today. It felt a lot better than the other one, I think I like their sense of humor more than the othe...
Monday, December 3, 2018

End of NaNoWriMo

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Okay, it's over! Well, the story isn't, but the month is! I definitely missed the mark, but that's okay! I'm intensely happ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

NaNoWriMo Progress

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This Month I haven't been posting anything since I've been attempting to do NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. It's be...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Murder Mystery

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I've been working on this one for a while (while waiting in lines, mostly) but I decided to finally finish it rather than going to the c...
Friday, October 5, 2018

Fall Poetry

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This week's writing club focused on Fall Poetry. Here are two little things I did: High in the tree, absorbing the sun, feeling the col...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Prompt Generator

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These two stories were written from sentences produced by an online prompt generator. The sentences I was given are in bold. The first one, ...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

A Night to Remember

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Trying out a new writing club, we did a circle story to get to know people better. It involved each person adding on as much as they could i...
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