So things are going very good. Very, very good ( Read more... )

I spend a lot of time telling lies, half-truths, and just avoiding issues altogether. Everybody does. I told the truth today. The god's honest truth and spilled my guts. Everyone always says guys don't talk about their feelings and how awful that is. Sometimes the truth is worse. Sometimes you want to hear lies. Maybe I should have kept lying. I ( Read more... )

Here's my latest story. It's long and for school, so this is just the first draft that will be workshopped in the coming weeks. Read it and let me know what you think.

Publik Knowledge

Somewhere out in Des Moines, Iowa, there’s a man named Jason Publik. This is his story. That may not sound unusual, but it is for Jason. Jason has ( Read more... )

So, here's a short story I whipped up. Its really short, so deal with it.

He drove down the road, recognizing and comprehending each sign. He kept both hands on the wheel, at ten and two, and the radio was turned off. His lights were on and he was aware of everything going on around him. It was like a surreal dream where everything is too ( Read more... )

So, I just got out of the emergency room. We were moving some of Emily's stuff (finally) and me and my dad were tying down her mattress using bungee cords. My dad was on the trailer and I was next to it; I attached the cord to a hook and stretched it over the mattress, he grabbed it and attached another to it. Somehow it got away from him and came ( Read more... )

So, my creative writing teacher wants us to write about half an hour every day. That's not going to happen, but I figure updating this thing a few times a week wouldn't be so bad and might help me, too. This was the first official week of school, and so far it's really not that bad. I don't see any of my classes being that hard, but none of them ( Read more... )

Do crabs think people are delicacies? They are bottom-feeders and get a person every now and then, I wonder if we taste as good to them as they do to us. Maybe only the ones that somehow got killed in a steam accident ( Read more... )

I don't quite get this. A perfectly respectable young person (male or female) goes to college. These are A/B students that never did anything overly deviant in their high school days. These young people go to nice little colleges with nice little sports teams and a nice little mascot. What they discover there surely does not boggle their mind; ( Read more... )

So I was reading my new book, Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk and he starts talking about Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and I got to thinking; it's damn easy to sell a story if it plays on people's fears. But playing on fears is hard without sounding trite, just look at all of Tom Clancy's books, or Ann Rice's hackneyed vampire novels. So I'm going to ( Read more... )

I just got the idea for this story on driving home today. I whipped it up in under an hour, so let me know what you think. I know it's kind of depressing, but all of my stories are. For some reason, I can't write comedy from scratch unless its dark comedy. Feel free to bash this as needed. Without further ado, this is Forgotten by John von Gunten ( Read more... )