This is a short story written for LineByLine, a prompt-based writing community.  The community provides one line which much be used somewhere in the piece.  This week's line was "It wasn't because of that."

This short story centers around characters that have been popping up in my writings for a while now: a guy named Beck, who dropped out of ( Read more... )

For those of you that don't know, LineByLine is a prompt-based creative writing community.  The prompt phrase must be used somewhere in the piece in its entirity.  This week's prompt is 'long before now.'

This piece is entitled, "Anonymous".

The chair is hard under his butt and the smell of magic marker is making him sick.  He regrets putting the ( Read more... )

The alarm clock rang at six AM, just like it did every morning. Well, technically it rang at 5:40, since Gabe had set it twenty minutes fast. When he thought about it, it didn't make much sense, really. If he knew the clock was twenty minutes fast, then he'd just press the snooze button two more times instead of getting himself out of bed. What ( Read more... )

For those of you that don' know, I'm a member of an LJ writing community, called LineByLine.  Basically we're given one line every week, and everyone who contributes must use that line somewhere in their post.  This week's like is, In Honor of the Revolution.  So here's my latest post!

I could almost see them moving under there.  I could almost ( Read more... )

This is the last entry I posted under LineByLine, my LJ writing community,  I thought I'd share it with you all.  The tag line (which all posters must use somewhere in their post) was "Out in the Open".

The heels were killing me.

They were the worst part, most of the time.  Sometimes my dress would ride up, or maybe one of the pins in my hair was ( Read more... )