Category: Stories

  • A First Draft: Station 11-½

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    Chapter 5 of Photograph, Part II             Feeling returns in waves. First in the chest, then up to the head and down to the hips. Eventually the legs and feet return, as do the arms. The hands remain missing. I am warm, but it isn’t the fluid, cacophonous warmth of frozen death. The air too… Read more

  • The Art of Empathy

    This won first place for “First Chapter of a Novel” in my high school writing contest back in 2017. While I’ve done basically nothing with the story since then, the character of Theresa has remained important to my writing. The Art of Empathy I The light wiggled its way into the room through the spaces… Read more