If you want, here are some short stories. (I stole that sentence, by the way, from Stephen King). I’ve posted them over at Rife With Typos, although a few have appeared on this blog over the past few weeks. All of these come from my daily exercise at 750words.com, which is why they’re so short. But you’ll notice that I’m not publishing everything from the daily exercises—sometimes I wind up just blither blathering too much. I mean, I do have my arrogance, but I try to be at least somewhat discerning….
Anyway, enjoy.
We Accidentally Found a Trillion Dollars appeared on this blog on January 18th. I’d had the idea for this story for a while now, but when I finally got into it, I couldn’t get away from the one detail that I wound up riding all the way to the end.
But Frederick, You Died Last Week. This one is not very good, and the ending is a throw-away, but I want the darn thing done so I can move on.
The Devil Inside- A Bad Film Review. If you get nothing else from this, at least watch how I try to develop better writing technique in the “coming up with last names” department and fail miserably.
Different Rules, Same Game. Not only are these from daily exercises, a lot of them come to me while I’m at the gym running on the treadmill. This one was posted on the blog on January 26th. I was going to called it “Buzzard Beater,” but then when I got done, I couldn’t remember what I was going to call it.
Icy Drops of Water Running Down the Sides. Slightly experimental, just one paragraph, two sentences. If I may so say, this one has a writing style I use all the time, taken, maybe, way too far.
Just Another Tuesday. Published on the blog yesterday. Supposed to be evocative of Tooth and Nail was written while listening to Nightwish and Blind Guardian.
Lemon Jefferson, Stripper Pole Salesman. Not sure where this one came from. Had the phrase “stripper pole salesman” in my head, and when I sat down to write, “Lemon Jefferson” just popped in there. Then, while I was writing it, I tossed in a few gratuities, for the hell of it.
Messin’ With Texas. I really like this one, not sure why. It’s in the same style as The Most Important Person in the Restaurant, a style I might play around with some more in the future.
Mr. Luigi’s Delicious Pizzas. I do these daily writing exercises, and sometimes I can’t think of what to write about. So I got the idea then when I’m stuck, I’ll write about this pizza place. So far, I’ve only done so twice, and the first one never got finished.
The Witch Nutella. Maybe this one is a bit silly, but oh well. Sometimes you just pick a genre, pick a few tropes, and see what happens.