Below is a collection of original short stories.
THE STEAK WAS OK
Excerpt: "The clink of glass hitting wood and the spatter of voices echoes across the room as I shift in my chair. My grandmother lifts her napkin to her face, and when she sets it down the cool yellow is stained bright red from her lips. She smiles at me and I notice her teeth do not get away unmarked from the red."
THE WRITER'S HUSBAND
Excerpt: "My wife is a writer. When she has writer's block she lays in our bed and she stares at the white ceiling. She stares, and stares, and stares, like she’s waiting for it to speak to her, or waiting for it to fall down, and give her body a release from the normal world. She could finally join the characters in her books."
UNIVERSITY AVENUE
Excerpt: "We noticed this door right away and Jeremy was the first to hesitantly open it. It rose above the bottom of the wall by a couple feet, so that one had to pull themself up to enter. Taking turns peering inside we saw, a small dark space leading up to the attic. The air inside felt charged with a strangely humid stench, and when I stuck my head in, a slow shiver slid up my spine. As I closed the door I swear I could hear an almost imperceivable laugh coming from the hole to the attic.
STREET MEET
Excerpt:
SETTING: Times Square on a bench amidst a busy afternoon. People bustle by while two professional impersonators sit on a bench on their break.
CHARACTERS:
Spider-man (James): early 20’s, tired, bored, generally sick of life at the moment
Rapunzel: early 20’s, spunky, tendency to swear A LOT, talkative
WOMBMATE
Excerpt:
"The most important person in my life is my identical twin sister Sami. That sounds oddly selfish, because we’re twins, so if she’s important then by association I must be important too. Wrong. We’ve spent our whole lives fighting for freedom, independence and separation from our similarities. It's strange because as we came into this world we were immediately plunged into codependency tendencies. Leaning on each other and chatting through the nights of our childhood, our two beds separated by a Disney nightlight."