Photo by Austin Prock on Unsplash. As I indicated in the title of this post, the poem below was written in the style of Algernon Charles Swinburne, specifically his poem "The Garden of Proserpine" (which you can read here). Obviously I'm emulating Poe here as well. Oh, and I wrote this poem over ten years ago. I stood … Continue reading Poem in the Style of Poe and Swinburne for Throwback Thursday #40
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 … Continue reading Story for Throwback Thursday #39
Photo by Neil Rosenstech on Unsplash. Yes, I said Teen Wolf fanfiction. I had a phase, more recently that I care to admit, where I binge-watched the show and started a fanfiction about it. I was planning to turn it into a Gothic novel parody, in which each of the characters embodied some sort of Gothic archetype: the … Continue reading Teen Wolf Fanfiction for Throwback Thursday #38
Photo by Kamil Feczko on Unsplash. Today's Throwback Thursday story was written over five years ago and for some reason it came to my mind today. I'm presenting it without any editing, just as I wrote it down the first time. The room contained only three people, but the machines crowded them together. Artificial light reflected off their … Continue reading Flash Fiction for Throwback Thursday #37
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, … Continue reading Throwback Thursday #36: Sebastian Becomes a Ghost
Photo by Leonardo Yip on Unsplash. Yes, I said "fanfiction." For today's Throwback Thursday story, I'm sharing a fanfiction piece I wrote years ago--I'm not even sure how many--based on characters from the anime/manga Soul Eater. Soul Eater was one of my favorite shows for a while, and I found myself often relating to Death the Kid. *** … Continue reading Fanfiction for Throwback Thursday #35
Photo by pedram ahmadi on Unsplash. I wrote these two poems a little over ten years ago and recently rediscovered them while browsing through an old notebook of mine. You can probably guess where I get a lot of my inspiration from...(hint: he's haunted by a talking raven.) *** After Elinor Wylie. One night I lay sleeping-- My … Continue reading Two Untitled Poems for Throwback Thursday #33
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 … Continue reading Throwback Thursday #32–Short Story: A Ghost Story
Photo by Yuliya Ilkovych from Pexels. Here for Throwback Thursday I have a short piece I wrote exactly six years ago. At the time I had set myself the goal of writing at least 500 words each day in the summer that I could manage it, and this was one of the results. *** The window is cold … Continue reading Throwback Thursday #30–Short Story
Photo by Spencer Arquimedes on Unsplash For today's Throwback Thursday piece, I have a poem that I wrote ten years ago. Some of my most inspired writing happens late at night when I can't sleep, and this poem was no exception. I was lying awake at 2 AM, listening to the wind lashing the house (our house at … Continue reading Throwback Thursday #26–Poem: Night Fold
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