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The Three and a half deaths of berry qin
This story went through about ten drafts before reaching this point. I’m still not satisfied with the ending, but I was able to clarify some of the thought process of my main character, which was a great challenge. Berry’s been crushed by an eighteen-wheeler. The second I stepped into the parking lot I knew it.…
Grace’s Feel for pain
A short story I wrote a few months ago. Didn’t quite come out as I intended, but I still like the original idea. “I won’t go climbing up on the counter,” Grace said when the doctor left the room. “And I’m sorry I knocked the kettle over. I’ll stay out of the kitchen forever for…
Amazing Grace
A short story I wrote a few months ago. Not finalized but I’m hoping the ideas are here! Miles Rich, his name was, and he was twenty-one and he’d come from nothing, he said, didn’t own anything but a six-string guitar, the change in his pocket, and the clothes on his back, and because he…
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Mountain Whispers
Inspired by a trip to Yunnan back in October. Not very satisfied with, but it was fun to write. Storm is the language of ghosts and gods, thinks the man in the red coat on the roof of the world, hammering an iron ring into the cliffside. Or so his people believed. And who that’d…
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