Stop and See Your Grandfather

Homework 7 was to describe a scene where the description of the location impacts the emotion of the story. This is an autobiographical moment that sticks in my head to this day.  In college, I had gone with friends to a cabin that belonged to one of their families in Tahoe.  When my father found …

Smoothing Sand

The point of this assignment was to write a short "slice of life" passage about a single character. No big plot, bug some conflict and some sort of change in the character by the end. Spring had arrived and with it the annual gathering that was the Olbardra Pharmaceutical Sciences Picnic. An event that Joe …

From my Corner

This was a homework assignment on creating an unreliable narrator. I wrote it while sitting in the corner of my local coffee place... This is my corner. My chair and my table. This is where I always sit. The gang expects to find me here. Especially Sandi. At least on Tuesdays and Thursdays. After work, …

Red Painting Reflected

This is the first homework assignment for the second Fiction Writing II class. Write about something you would never do. This is something I would never do, although the rest of the story and the people are completely fabricated. Lillian and Brad are friends. The kind you acquire when you are young and still exploring …