Short Story for Fandango’s Friday Flashback: The Tale of Fithir and Eliandel

Sharing for Fandango's Friday Flashback! I originally shared this story on June 28, 2018 for Throwback Thursday.  Photo by Martin Jernberg on Unsplash. Today's snippet of story is a fragment I wrote during the holiday break leading into 2013. I had set myself the goal of writing at least 500 words every day, which had some interesting results. …

Short Story for Fandango’s Friday Flashback: A Discovery in the Snow, Part III

For Fandango's Friday Flashback, I'm sharing this bit of story that I originally posted on September 14, 2018. Somehow I didn't have any posts from February 14 even though I've been blogging for two years. I realize it's been over a month since I last posted, but I hope to post more frequently beginning today. …

Story for Throwback Thursday #39

Photo by Noah Silliman on Unsplash. I wrote this story almost nine years ago for a class on children's literature. This story was inspired by an exercise we did, involving sets of cards with characters, locations, and objects. I was a freshman in college then and didn't know what kind of thing I wanted to write or how to …

Throwback Thursday #36: Sebastian Becomes a Ghost

Photo by John Silliman on Unsplash. For today's Throwback Thursday story, I'm sharing something I wrote in January of 2008. I was only seventeen when I wrote this story, so I can say pretty confidently that I've improved in the past eleven-or-so years.  The moon was shining full on the house of Sedgewick, but no one noticed it, …

Throwback Thursday #32–Short Story: A Ghost Story

Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash. Again, I find that I'm late in posting my Throwback Thursday story. Ah well. Life happens. Today I have something I wrote about seven years ago in the summer. At the time I was hosting a regular writing group in my dorm on campus and I first posted this story on the …

Throwback Thursday #28–Short Story: An Excess of Eggs

Photo by Marcus Cramer on Unsplash. An Excess of Eggs In which a youngish failure of a wizard and a runaway get into all sorts of scrapes. Being a wizard had it perks, but cooking wasn’t among them. No matter how hard the wizard tried to produce something edible, all he ever came up with by way of …

Throwback Thursday #23

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash Today's Throwback Thursday story is one I wrote about a year ago. I began with the idea that I would submit it to a contest, but I had difficulty figuring out what I wanted to write and thus didn't finish the story in time. I later finished it to submit to an …

Throwback Thursday #13

I'm a little late with this post because yesterday turned out to be a full day, but here I am now. The following story is one I wrote over five years ago, while taking a class in which I got very bored and fidgety. This story just sort of happened without a lot of thought, …

The Dragon and the Flutes (Throwback Thursday)

Photo by Ricardo Cruz on Unsplash   Here we are at Throwback Thursday again. This time I'm sharing a short story I wrote about six-and-a-half years ago. *** The Dragon and the Flutes Once upon a time on the edge of a great forest there was a kingdom. This kingdom was neither large nor small; …

The Dishboy’s Quest

Today's Throwback Thursday story is one that I started writing for my college writing group, way back in March of 2012. The prompt was "love," I think, and though this story doesn't fit the theme, once I started writing it I could hardly stop. It's not finished, but glancing over it again I remember how …