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Short Stories

  • I Trust You

    "What are you thinking about?" Muffled tv sounds make their way through the floor beneath me. A storm blows outside the window. My eyes wander up ...

    • Short Story
    7 min read
  • Memories in the Making (A Homecoming Story)

    Takes place in a car after a homecoming dance. Just a short one-shot I wrote for a contest. Had to be under 400 words, that's why it's so short.

    • Short Story
    • Teen Fiction · Realistic
    3 min read


The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.
— Richard Price