Short Stories

  • Bully, Bully, Boyfriend Eater

    I wrote this short story during my creative writing class at Queens University. It was interesting to go back and do some edits on something I wrote nearly 3 years ago before I started truly pushing to understand this craft.… Continue reading

  • A Round Trip Ticket and a One Way Ticket- A literary fiction short story

    To my Lily,             I thought looking out the window of this plane we are on would help me write this. Yet, the view of what would have been your home is getting smaller.  I look over at you so… Continue reading

  • An Assassin’s Affair

    The woman sitting in the passenger seat of my car is mad at me. Not because I was an assassin who killed her husband, ex-husband she had reminded me last night, but because I slept on the floor of our… Continue reading

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