Wednesday, July 18th-5:22 p.m.

1,131 words. Approximate reading time: 5 minutes, 39 seconds.

Cross-posted to gunwithoutmusic.dreamwidth.org/10962.html

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Thursday, November 22nd-4:31 p.m.

1,031 words. Approximate reading time: 5 minutes, 9 seconds.

Cross-posted to gunwithoutmusic.dreamwidth.org/10534.html

Katie cursed as the match burned her fingers, dropping it into the fireplace and waving her hand around in a futile effort to stop the pain. “You’d think I’d know how to do this right by now,” she ( Read more... )

Friday, July 21st-5:22 p.m.

1,728 words. Approximate reading time: 8 minutes, 38 seconds.

Cross-posted to gunwithoutmusic.dreamwidth.org/10289.html

Jeremiah skidded his bicycle to a stop in front of the neighborhood park. It was a beautiful summer evening, with the sun hanging low in the sky but still hours away from setting. The air was stagnant ( Read more... )

Wednesday, June 19th-2:14 p.m.

1,214 words. Approximate reading time: 6 minutes, 4 seconds.

Nelle sighed and grabbed another handful of potato crisps, her greasy fingers crushing a few of the smaller crisps into crumbs. She moved her hand toward her open mouth and shoved the entire handful inside in one smooth, seemingly well-practiced motion. The ( Read more... )

Monday, August 12th-7:38 p.m.

1,913 words. Approximate reading time: 9 minutes, 33 seconds.

Rhian stepped into his bedroom and softly shut the door behind him, then walked over to his bed and promptly collapsed onto it. He had told his parents that he was tired from his first day and wanted to get to bed early, and, while that was certainly true, ( Read more... )

Monday, February 1st-7:45 a.m.

1,849 words. Approximate reading time: 9 minutes, 20 seconds.

The bedroom lights turned on, slowly brightening as Michael’s handheld tablet began playing soft instrumental music. The music swelled with the lights, welcoming Michael and his wife Cindy to the new day.

With a swift motion, Michael reached a hand out from ( Read more... )

Thursday, December 12th-12:22 p.m.

1,845 words. Approximate reading time: 9 minutes, 13 seconds.

A light snow fell on Schubert Fulton as he quietly snuck behind the school gymnasium and pulled his vape pen out of his pocket. He lifted up the bottom of his balaclava, took the opening of the pen to his mouth, and pressed the button on the side of the ( Read more... )

Tuesday, March 11th-10:43 a.m.

1,392 words. Approximate reading time: 6 minutes, 56 seconds.

“You can’t be serious with this,” Elaina said as she walked into her editor-in-chief’s office, holding up a few sheets of paper covered in text. Howard, the editor-in-chief, looked up from his computer at Elaina with an exasperated facial expression, and ( Read more... )

Originally posted on Dreamwidth for LJ Idol Minor+. I'm cross-posting this here to LJ now because this is the piece that I'm planning using as the basis for most, if not all, of my entries for the upcoming LJ Idol: 3 Strikes. I may or may not come back to this character.

1,369 words. Approximate reading time: 6 minutes, 44 seconds.

It was 11:32 in ( Read more... )

Here's my official declaration that I'll be competing in the upcoming LJ Idol: 3 Strikes mini-season. Don't all of you get too excited at once.

My hope is to use this mini-season to expand a little bit on the fictional universe I created in my last piece for Idol Minor+, most likely in the form of vignettes with various characters as opposed to one ( Read more... )