Shorts

Rabbithole

A short (10 page) story about a journalist investigating an ancient, impossibly deep pit in the Appalachian mountains.

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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 it around was exploring the dynamic of people happening to things rather than the other way around. People seemed to really enjoy this one.

Aperture

A 23 page sci-fi short in which a terminally ill woman aboard a research station, hunted by a coworker for sport, discovers a talking doll sitting atop her bed.

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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?" It includes an annotated version and character/setting notes, bumping it up to a pretty high pagecount.

A Short Story About Burgers

A 12(?) page existentialist short involving a time loop, a love triangle, a 2003 Ford Orrery, and, of course, burgers.

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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 as we lost our collective sanity. 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.

Fuckin' Bugs

A 19-page page short about the combat experience of a territorial militiawoman named Marcy.

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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.

Pipebomb Andy and the Ithaca Case

Emma, a hard-boiled detective, professional fujoshi, and internationally wanted war criminal, finds herself on the receveing end of a gift from renowned terrorist and Silly Little Guy Pipe Bomb Andy, kicking off a series of events that threatens the very foundation of New York's 17th most populous city. Features sewer goblins, a Roman Legion, and a club of leather daddies as noteworthy factions.

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While Heads up! is a slightly funny story, it still takes place in a semi-coherent, somewhat serious setting. Pipebomb Andy and the Ithaca Job does not. This is the product of me writing a series of scenes that I found amusing into a surreal tangle of a plot. This is also the second (of the released) stories that I tried to pull elements from A Short Story About Burgers while writing.

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.