Josie – Sunshower Chapter One
”Josie, I’m sorry,” he said for the thousandth time. “Things just aren’t working out.” My heart was being broken and I was reading a book. While he rattled off all the reasons why we couldn’t be...
View ArticleShe’s a Girl Rising From a Shell: A Memoir Chapter
So today, I’m giving you a full chapter from my memoir Moonchild. Now, this is actually up on this site but almost no one has found it, so I’m just pulling it out of hiding. Link is at the bottom of...
View ArticleJosie – Sunshower Chapter Two
“Josie, I’m so sorry. Seth told me what happened,” Ray Ann said as soon as she saw me the next day, during our break between our first two sessions with the InfoMaster. We were in the Psych-Lab Wing,...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Prologue
I’ve always been enchanted by darkness. It haunts me. It lures me. It holds my deepest fears. My deepest desires. Ever since I can remember it’s been there, playing with my mind. My heart can melt just...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Two
To start this story from the beginning, click here All nine of us went to Jake and Todd’s joint birthday party, the one I spoke of earlier. We were the only attendants, rather odd for a sweet sixteen...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Three
To start this story from the beginning, click here It was a year after the funerals, two years after the party, and a week before Winter Break. I was a senior in high school and eighteen years old. I...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Four
To start this story from the beginning, click here I slept through most of the ride. When we arrived, the cabin was much bigger than I had expected. It was actually more like a house in the woods than...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter One
To start this story from the beginning, click here There were nine of us before the party, the one time we all were together before the trip to Justin’s cabin in the woods. By the time we left, there...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Five
To start this story from the beginning, click here Awhile later Jill suggested we have a campfire, an idea welcomed by all. There was a fire ring not far from t©he cabin. We roasted marshmallows and...
View ArticleJosie – Sunshower Chapter Three
To start this book from the beginning, click here. The day to leave Earth had finally arrived! I awoke earlier than I had set the alarm for. I was bursting with excitement and energy. I could barely...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Six
To start this story from the beginning, click here “And we’re all defenseless, alone in a cabin in the woods with this guy? I’m getting scared,” Jill said jokingly. “The story was pretty good,” Justin...
View ArticleTotal Eclipse: A Memoir Chapter
This piece directly follows Warding Off Eclipses with Sex and Music, which chronicles what I thought of as my alt rock music heyday at fourteen. I was seventeen. Everything had changed. Love Phones...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Seven
To start this story from the beginning, click here Within seconds, everyone was gathered and ≈assembled in our room. I was in tears. I couldn’t understand what was happening. Everything in my mind was...
View ArticleSummer of Dreams – Prologue
Note: This was written when I was sixteen. Cringe cringe wince. “You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth.” When I look back on this summer I get this heartsick feeling, this desire to...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Eight
To start this story from the beginning, click here “What are you doing with that paper?” a cold voice demanded. I whirled around to see Justin, with an expression of anger on his face. “I-I’m sorry,” I...
View ArticleConstant Eclipse: A Memoir Chapter
I was scared that Mom or Dad would kill me in my sleep. Dad was an FBI agent and he had a gun that he sometimes kept in the house. I thought even he was afraid of Mom, who screamed all the time, got...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Nine
Here’s the next section from the “novel” I wrote one winter in high school. To start this story from the beginning, click here After dinner, when the night deepened, we all went and sat around the...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Ten
Here’s the next section from the “novel” I wrote one winter in high school. To start this story from the beginning, click here “Wow,” I breathed, almost speechless. “That was great. You have some...
View ArticleAffinity for Darkness – Chapter Eleven
Here’s the next section from the “novel” I wrote one winter in high school. It’s now at the part where it’s getting really mortifying and difficult to post. To start this story from the beginning,...
View ArticleJosie – Sunshower Chapter Four
To start this book from the beginning, click here. “Josie, talk to me. What’s going on?” “What do you mean?” I asked. Ray Ann and I were unpacking in our room, after a late lunch and a morning in the...
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