Franco and The Blonde: Fiction Friday

April 17, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

Today, I’m trying my hand at a bit of short fiction. This piece of flash fiction is under 600 words at 595 words. This scene popped into my head last night, perhaps because at dinner, our family was talking about our Italian heritage and the legacies we leave behind (I know…a little heavy for a […]

Friday Fiction: A Short About Reincarnation & Love (and in need of feedback)

April 3, 2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

I’ve been researching the idea of reincarnation lately. I’m not exactly sure why this particular concept has been stuck in my brain for several weeks, but it has. I’m in between books right now, having begun a new manuscript, but not sure where that one’s going, and the idea of reincarnation—a love story about reincarnation—keeps […]

The Water Wheel: A Short Story

November 25, 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

I promised myself I’d write ONE thing during this year’s 2019 NaNoWriMo, and today I hunkered down and did it. It’s not a novel or the 50,000 words required to “win” at NaNoWriMo, or even the 43,000 words of Little Milestones I wrote during last year’s NaNoWriMo. It’s just a short story about grief with […]

Nobody Has Ever Loved Me As Much As I Loved Him—Friday Fiction

March 4, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

NOBODY HAS EVER LOVED ME AS MUCH AS I HAVE LOVED HIM The light grows dim. I have been sitting in the dark for nearly four hours with only a flickering candle on the table. The storm has quelled a bit, but the winds rattled the house until midnight, the trees and bushes bending as […]

Fictography (Lucky) #13 — Michelle’s Adventure

March 28, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

/FICTOGRAPHY/ def. — The intersection of photography (submitted by readers) and fiction (written by me!). This week’s selected photograph comes from a current student of mine Nick Mamakos. Nick is a Business Communication major who hails from New York. He agreed to share some photographs with me as he’s taken photography at Stevenson, and I […]

A Piece of Short Fiction For Fiction Friday: “Time”

January 25, 2013.Reading time 12 minutes.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any short creative fiction that I’m working on, and that’s primarily because I haven’t been working on any short fiction. I’ve been working on writing a novel, but all this talk about creativity in the classroom this week caused this story to pop into my head. It doesn’t […]

Fiction Friday: The Beginning of a Short Story

August 12, 2011.Reading time 7 minutes.

For this week’s Fiction Friday, I’m sharing a short story that’s in progress. It’s the story of a woman who starts over, in another country, after several tragedies strike. While it may seem a little dark, I guarantee you it will have a happy ending. Part One of my Unnamed Short Story…(truly a work in […]