Autumnal Spirit: A Short Story

It was sometime in autumn, though what month I can’t quite recall. We still lived in the old house in my hometown where I grew up, before the extra burden of housing my second-oldest brother and his family overwhelmed my parents and started our string of moves. The house had been built in the earlyContinue reading “Autumnal Spirit: A Short Story”

2023 Reading List Review

What did you read this year? Have you read any of these books?

012 NaNoWriMo 2023: Week Zero

Call me a clumsy athlete, because I dropped the ball. Last year for NaNoWriMo, I announced I would continue to work on Incinerate. Well, I did, but I didn’t post any updates AND I fell short of the 50,000 word goal by a lot. At the end of the month, I only ended up withContinue reading “012 NaNoWriMo 2023: Week Zero”

008 NaNoWriMo 2022: Day Zero

The time has come once again for National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo! Every year in the month of November, writers from all around the world set their sights on writing 50,000 words of a new writing project or a work in progress. And what does one receive upon reaching such a milestone?Continue reading “008 NaNoWriMo 2022: Day Zero”

The Act: A Short Story

Hey there readers! So sometimes in the editing process you have to trim the fat. And sometimes, there’s a whole lot of fat. The story I’m sharing this week was a lot longer in its first draft. It ties in with another project I had been working on, so the other (roughly) two-thirds of itContinue reading “The Act: A Short Story”

The Cross Chronicles, random excerpt

Hey there friends! I’m currently in a hotel, and it made me think back to this piece I wrote a few years back for my supernatural series The Cross Chronicles. I currently have no idea when the following excerpt will be used, but this scene was in my head and wasn’t going to stop knockingContinue reading “The Cross Chronicles, random excerpt”