Fiction

This collection consists of entirely original works of fiction. These are primarily short stories, and they are all currently unpublished.

Coffee and Closure

I could always see people standing at the peak of the dormant volcano; yet, from the city they were nothing more than anonymous shadows, obscurely waving side to side in the wind. Today the peak was empty, a rare sight. Perhaps the cold and sleet had given even the most daring tourists second thoughts about ascending to the summit…

Some people never go crazy

Christina’s editor slapped a copy of tomorrow’s Park City Times down on her desk. The front page shouted up at her a headline she had written earlier that night, “Casino Runs out of Luck: Park Palace Dealt $3.5 Million Robbery.” Christina was overcome with pride. She had always known she was capable of breaking a front-page story, but actually seeing it in print left her racking her brain for words…

pine and aspen

My eyes burn as I stare at the blue-lit computer screen on my desk. My headphones thump in my ears, spitting out Bach, or Beethoven or something. The playlist is generic classical music I put on to force myself to focus. My eyes drift up from the quarterly expense report spreadsheet document to the clock at the top right of my screen. It reads 1:48AM…