I’m a writer primarily focused on contemporary literary fiction, although I dabble in other genres as the mood strikes. I recently graduated with a double bachelor’s degree in English and Communication, and I’ve been continuing my studies through Harvard Extension School’s Creative Writing and Literature program, while working full-time as a communications specialist.
My work has been published in several local magazines and anthologies, and I have written four novel manuscripts in the last four years (none published, yet). I have also written screenplays for a couple of short films, including One-Man Band, which has been screened in both local and international film festivals.
In this archive, you’ll find original creative fiction, writing prompts, and blog posts from my Writing Rules Project series.
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Wilted
The lilacs were wilting in their little vase. She’d only cut them from the bush yesterday. The stem at an angle with a sharp scissors, like her mother had taught her. When the window was open, they filled the kitchen with the scent of freedom and boredom and first love. She’d only wanted to bring…
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Pink Bedroom Door
The day was sweating-lemonade-glass bugs-swimming-through-the-air thunderstorm-building hot. And yet they sat there on their plastic lawn chairs, eating sunflower seeds and spitting the shells into the grass. “It’s too hot,” he said, but didn’t move.
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Rainmelt
Every time it rained, she would lie on her back in the middle of the street. The water drenched her black hoodie and gray sweatpants until their shadows clothed her. It pooled in her sneakers and soaked her socks. But she stayed there, gazing up at the lightning, with a thousand droplets anointing her eyes…
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Bones
The long marble hallways of the museum echoed with a disorderly line of squeaking sneakers here to look at the bones. They pointed their fingers at the glass displays of rocks and minerals. Ancient rainbows. Who knew those bright and crusty beryl crystals inside half a brown stone egg would make a little girl with…
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Five Glass Water Jars
Five glass water jars sit on a windowsill. Each contains an identical scene complete with sunset and silhouette. All the same.
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The Night of the Bonfire
It always starts around the fire. The air is still heavy with heat after dark here, for a few weeks in the summer, which it was that night. The Dennon’s live outside of town and don’t have any neighbors close by, so there’s nobody to snitch about noise, or beer. Time runs backward when the…
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#200
Write a complete story on a single note card.
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#199
Describe your best trait.
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#198
Write a list of songs that make you want to dance.
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#197
Would you rather live where the sun never rises or never sets?
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#196
Write a poem about the color yellow.
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#195
Write a short story that takes place during a foggy morning.
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#194
What is a memory you wish you could forget?
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#193
Write a list of things you don’t know.
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#192
Are you a procrastinator?
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#191
Write a poem about something that brings you joy.
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#190
Write the story of a road trip gone wrong.
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#189
Write a list of ten people that have influenced your life.
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#188
What is an issue you always speak up about?
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#187
Describe yourself in seven words.
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#186
Write a poem about time.
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#185
Start a story with this line: “My whole life is a lie.”
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#184
What makes you feel satisfied?
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#183
Describe your favorite flower.
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#182
Write a letter to one of your grandparents.
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#181
Write a poem structured like a conversation.
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And that’s a wrap on the Writing Rules Project!
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#180
Write a short story that involves a bean, a boat, and a bottle.
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#179
Write a list of ten places that feel surreal at night.
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#178
What is your nighttime routine?
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#177
What is something you are looking forward to?
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#176
Write a poem about regret.
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#175
Write the story of a single passenger in a taxi.
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Killing My Darlings
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#174
Describe your ideal waffle.
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#173
How would you explain today’s world to someone a hundred years ago?
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#172
Write a list of songs that connect to specific memories.
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#171
Write a poem about something brand new.
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#170
Write a story about a pirate.
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Reading My Draft Out Loud
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#169
Who makes you laugh?
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#168
Write a review of the last movie you watched.
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#167
What are your current goals?
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#166
Write a poem about water.
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#165
Write a short story that takes place in a sunflower field.
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Retyping My Entire First Draft
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#164
What’s your mental checklist when you leave home?
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#163
What is the craziest coincidence you’ve ever experienced?
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#162
Describe your dream vacation.
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#161
Write a stream-of-consciousness poem.