Extra Salt

Originally written: March 2nd, 2020 A piece from last term, working with time between scenes. The questions my professor asked of us were: How can you have a large space of time past but maintain the story? Image… Read More

A Moonlit Secret

Originally written: February 6th, 2019 The backstory for this piece is that my class had just read Talented Mr. Ripley, and our teacher wanted us to play with two things: using free indirect discourse, and writing something where… Read More

The Process

Originally written: October 28th, 2018 Sometimes the scariest things are the least cliche. This piece from last term was written after our teacher challenged us to write a scary story that didn’t involve the traditional monsters and ghouls we see in… Read More

Night of The Dancing Dame

Originally written: November 28th, 2018 Starting off with a very short piece, here’s something I wrote in Intro to Creative Writing last term. For this exercise, the teacher instructed us to make the familiar feel strange, or make the strange feel… Read More