This is my final round entry in the NYC Midnight 500-Word Contest. Genre: open. Action: calling off a wedding. Object: fishnet. Word Count: 500 or less. Synopsis: Love is like an all-you-can-eat buffet; it's sometimes great, sometimes gross, sometimes just okay. You can take it or leave it, but don't settle for just okay. Photo by Dana Starr My mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother all said, “I do.” Soon, I’ll say the same. Melody, Hillary, and Louise were married a tot

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This is my latest entry in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge. Genre: drama. Location: a roadside attraction. Object: shampoo. Word...

Click here to read my latest entry in the Writing Battle. Genre: shipwrecked. Character: outlaw. Object: driftwood. Word Count: 1,000 or...

Click here to read my latest entry in the Writing Battle. Genre: drama. Character: accountant. Object: bandana. Word count: 1,000 or...

The following story received an honorable mention in the WritersWeekly.com Spring Short Story Contest. I had 24 hours to write a story...

COVID makes me feel like I just got off a three-day bender and woke up missing a shoe behind a dumpster at Dollar General, clutching half...

Anyhoo, I had a dream a few nights back that I was a young, rich, thin woman who owned her own shop in a barn. That was the good news....

Synopsis: Annie doesn't always understand what's going on, but she understands the art of the deal. Annie rolled over and looked at the...

Hey gang: it's flash fiction time again. I had 1,000 words to write a romance. The primary setting has to be a rooftop pool. The...

This is my second round story for the NYC Midnight Short Story Contest. Genre: romantic comedy. Subject: sense of direction. Character:...

It's been so long since I've updated this website, I forgot my password. I had it written down, but, of course, I forgot where I wrote...

Hey kids! It's time for the annual NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Competition. Last year, I came within a whisker of making it to round two....

Cover your mouth with your hand and softly say the following: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Um diddle diddle, diddle um, diddle ay....

The following story received honorable mention in the first round of the NYC Midnight Short Story contest. I was required to write a...

For some of you, who don't live where I live, it's not Sunday; however, it's still a relatively new year. I don't celebrate on New Year's...

Long, painful, repetitive. Living with an addict is all those things and so much more. Watching Beautiful Boy, a two-hour movie about...

Pissed off and disappointed. I'm both those things. I'm pissappointed. I'm typing this with one hand because the other hand is stuck in a...

This is my round two entry in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Competition. The required genre is action/adventure. Setting: taxicab....

I'd pay good money to see a movie entitled Crazy Lower-Middle-Class Rednecks. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, that's not a real movie;...