Shorts

Rabbithole

After discovering an article about an ancient, anomalously deep pit nestled far off in the Appalachian mountains, an unnamed investigator finds themselves descending a chasm of their own as they scramble to uncover any information they can about the landmark.

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I wrote this in the summer of '25 in an attempt to capture the essence of a previous favorite of mine, A Short Story About Burgers. It's about a lot of things, and I have more thoughts about it in the foreword and postword, but the premise I built Rabbithole around was exploring the dynamic of people happening to things, rather than the other way around. Folks seemed to really enjoy this one.

A Short Story About Burgers

It is a day like any other. A secretary at an investment firm is shot to death when she asks for a "Daddy Burger". It is a day like any other. A secretary at an investment firm is killed by a semi truck while driving to a Mcdonald's. It is a day like any other. A secretary at an investment firm decides to drive her car through the wall of a restaurant. It is a day like any other. A secretary at an investment firm thinks she might be falling in love with the cashier who keeps shooting her to death. It is a day like any other. It is a day like any other. It is a day like any other.

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I wrote this in the winter of '23 after a nightmarish, 3-hour long Garry's mod session with my friends where we did nothing but mcdonald's cashier roleplay and lose our collective sanities. The weekend after, I got deleriously feverish, and I woke up with the rough draft for this story sitting in my drive on Monday. I felt it was finally polished enough for release in the summer of '24.

Pipebomb Andy and the Ithaca Case

Emma is a professional Fujoshi, internationally wanted war criminal, and hard-boiled detective hot on the toughest case of her life when she finds herself receiving a gift from renowned Silly Little Guy and terrorist Pipe Bomb Andy, kicking off a series of events that threatens the very foundation of New York's 17th most populous city. In this extremely serious and harrowing tale, Emma must face off against Sewer Goblins, a Roman Legion, and a cadre of Leather Daddies, as she tries her hardest not to get distracted by sidequests while on the job.

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Pipebomb Andy and the Ithaca Job is a story I wrote based off a semi-returning SS13 character of mine, Pipe Bomb Andy, to the point where a lot of things that happen to him are transcriptions from ingame. He really was robbed by a floor goblin, almost beaten to death with a trapped backpack, and sued, only to win in court. This is also the second (of the released) stories that I tried to pull elements from A Short Story About Burgers while writing. I'm sure you can tell which ones those are.

Aperture

Aboard a remote research station, a terminally ill woman finds herself preyed upon- perhaps literally- by a coworker. One afternoon, she discovered a cloth effigy sitting atop her bed whispering of salvation in exchange for bloodshed.

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I wrote this in the fall/winter of '24 and rewrote it for an assignment. It's based loosely off another game I play, Space Station 13, and answers an irk of mine-- "why doesn't anyone just use a weapon to kill the weird creepy villian?" I'm not super content with how it turned out execution-wise, but I don't think either myself or the story are in a place where fixing it is super feasible. It includes an annotated version and character/setting notes, bumping it up to a pretty high pagecount.

Fuckin' Bugs

A millitiawoman named Marcy earns her keep on a colonial planet by culling the population of a pest species known only as "bugs". On one such day, the hive she's sent to clean up is far larger than most.

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I wrote this in the fall of '23, partially for fun and partially as an assignment for a creative writing class. It's one of the first mid-length, complete stories I've written, and shares a setting with several much longer, fragmentary stories I've written for fun.

Super Duper Spooky Draft Zone

All the stories in this section aren't finished, but are nonetheless ones that I full and well intend to complete.

Heads up!

An evil scorceress finds herself repeatedly accosted by an annoying twink of a jester.

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An answer to the age-old question that everyone's always asking: what if your archetypical evil fantasy villainess was tormented by a slightly faggy, highly fuckable clown?
This was my first serious attempt at a foray into fantasy, and one of the first silly from the get-go stories. I fully intend on finishing this one, but The Semester has other plans for me, so it's in a semimature draft state at the moment.

Arctic

The polished first half of an (almost novel length) sci-fi story covering three timelines of a group of survivors, a team of mercenaries, and a cell of government agents scrambling in the aftermath of a disaster at a bioresearch facility. The Thing meets Half Life 1 .

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This is the longest coherent story I've written in a comprehensively established setting that I've had for a while. It's also the world that Fuckin' Bugs and Vignettes (below) are set in, though each are intended to be self-contained stories. I do a LOT of writing in this setting, but most of it is for my own enjoyment alone, so things rarely leave the "loosely associated of scenes that I really like" phase of storyboarding. This story is quite polished, and I've got an ending planned, but I stopped after I felt like the plot was losing momentum.

Vignettes

A trio of short stories, set in a strip club, hive town, and house on a prairie, connected by the common theme of girls' perspectives.

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A lot of my work for Strays setting takes the course of very long, mostly unfinished plotstrings, so I figured I'd force myself to do the opposite. The first two are finished and polished, but I was struggling with how little or how much I wanted to put between the beginning and the ending of the third one, so I left it in a bit of a limbo.