Coming Back to Old Work With Fresh Eyes I’ve been working on some longer pieces lately, in particular a book that I started a couple of years ago. It started off as a simple scene with two characters, a young boy and an old librarian having a conversation in a library. Nothing of note happened, …
Part 1: https://sjcwrites.home.blog/2020/05/21/running-short-story-part-1/ He arrived back to the hotel an hour later and walked into the lobby. He felt as if a weight had been lifted off of his shoulders, and a little bit light headed from the wine. Tomorrow would have its own problems, but he was determined to deal with them when they …
The elevator doors opened and he stepped out into the hallway, after a glance to see if anyone was out there, a slow craning forward of the neck. There were two ways out of the apartment building and he chose the back way, nodding at the security guard as he pushed against the metal handle …
Continue reading Insight: A Short Story Inspired By Raymond Carver
Is that headline pulled straight from a tabloid from the 90s you ask? Am I offering a free calendar with every response? Luckily, no. It’s an effort to gauge some interest in the following: Having you contribute a guest post to the blog. What is a guest post? Well, it’s pretty much what it says …
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Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash They came at night. And night was fast approaching. Isaac quickened his pace, through the abandoned streets, his boots crunching over broken glass and gravel underneath, eyes scouring the empty shop windows and the shadows down the alleyways. His hands drifted to the pistol holstered on his belt, and the varmint rifle …
Here's an idea that’s been bouncing around my head lately. It’s one I’ve always known intuitively, but like all things, it had to strike with the hammer of personal experience before it could resonate with me. This one will be a little messy, a little incoherent perhaps, more of a musing and noting down a …
Writes Of Passage 