It’s the beginning of the year and we’re all trying to find a little inspiration to kick-start January in the right way. It’s weird, but there is a refreshing feeling of starting off the new year in a positive manner and free from the baggage of…
Tag: flash fiction
“Love Will Kill You” Published in Shotgun! Strange Stories
Good news. My latest flash fiction piece, “Love Will Kill You”, is out now in Shotgun! Strange Stories Vol. 2 #1. It’s my first published thriller, which takes tonal inspiration from films such as Kiss the Girls, Nocturnal Animals and Gone Girl. Confused yet? That’s the…
Roku Stories: Six Word Epics
There’s something special about minimalism. It’s stripped down, economical and allows the reader to let his/her imagination run wilder than a toddler in a toy factory. In simpler terms, it’s the so-often-quoted-that-it-now-annoys KISS (keep it simple, stupid) theory (marketers LOVE this acronym). As a writer who…
Clowning Around
At my new job, we conduct regular creative writing workshops (awesome, right?). In the last workshop we participated in a cool exercise. Here’s how it worked: Each person had to roll three dice. Depending on what you rolled, you were assigned three markers that had to…