Verhalen: Anecdotes, Short Stories and Personal Essays
Short story practice, anecdotes, ramblings, essays, what have you.…
Short story practice, anecdotes, ramblings, essays, what have you.…
15 year old Marek finds himself in the middle of nowhere - the Orkney Islands, to be more specific. Facing a week of being stuck in his own head, he joins a 23 year old pagan devotee named Fred on a magic quest to rid the world of Nazism and dodgy Joshler fanfiction.…
I have a habit of creating new words to describe new things. I did it quite a lot, so one day I started writing them down. The result was this weird dictionary, a guide to translating my inner monologue.…
I felt like making a book of secret codes and puzzles and stuff. Because why not? Good way to distract myself from the fact that the world is about to end. - Marek…
(This story is on hiatus) With the Second World War on the horizon, Sean begrudgingly enlists, training to be a pilot. He and his old comrade Matt return to Europe, fighting to free the Netherlands. However, when Sean sees a familiar face on enemy lines, he's forced to make a decision.…
The world according to me - a teen, a Canadian, a furry, but most importantly, someone growing up with Asperger's Syndrome.…
Boid - a bipedal, gryphon-esque creature with human intelligence - starts his first year of high school. Always bright-eyed and full of hope, Boid is unaware that the real human world isn't so forgiving.This is the backstory of my fursona.…
Sean is a young Canadian WWI solider on the Western Front. He leaves his life as a PEI potato farmer in search of glory, and him and his comrade Markell Piers find it on the windswept meadows of Vimy Ridge - but at a cost.…
Liberty Jacobs, the first successful human clone - and a clone of John Lennon, no less - is seen by the world as a medical miracle. Liberty just wants to be seen as a human.Inspired by a true-ish story..?Inspired by an idea someone's actually trying to put into effect.…
Half-finished passages, dialog, lists and other ideas that haven't got a full story behind them.…
As a young lad, Seán was grumpy, stubborn and cynical - that is, until he starts getting visits from a mysterious owl.…
... These aren't THAT dysfunctional, but I'm always calling myself a "dysfunctional poet", so this is the poetry. I only started writing poems in 8th grade. Up until then I thought poems were dopey, but then I started seeing them as an excuse to throw away politically correct grammar to convey what I really feel. Mainly free verse, but I've also been trying rhymes, riddles, and acrostic poems.…
Based on the song Bohemian Rhapsody - 15 year old Lesra DeLano lives a meagre life in the ghettos of LA, but finds comfort around those who love him. On one fateful night, however, he's plunged into darkness, his fate hanging on the judgement of those in the afterlife.Not my best work, but it's... serviceable. I got the concept down, might elaborate on it in future.Took some inspiration from The Outsiders by S. E. Hilton and Throwing Frisbees at the Sun, a Beck biography.…
The year is 2078. Society looks brighter then ever, when in fact the government has hit a dangerous low. On the suburbs of a super-city, some of the last moral humans take an unusual form: a gang of teens, all of them born with defects. They fear murder - not at the hands of rival gangs, but at the hands of their own government.…
Recalling my first year of middle school from my grade 6 diary, where I documented my class life like it was a war epic.…