Writing & Literature

My first book titled “Haunted” has been published (and is now available on Amazon). Here is an excerpt from that book (or rather the first chapter)…….. Rya Fortin was really looking forward to the weekend. She works as an assistant for a big realtor, one of the top realtors in the state to be exact. While they normally stay busy, the last couple of weeks had been busier than normal. She has plans to enjoy the weekend off at a cabin at a nearby resort that was a couple of hours away, where she was going to relax and catch up on some reading. It was a Thursday and Rya managed to get off work early. Being it was October, it was a pretty chilly day and it was extrem…

It's an older story of mine and one of my more preferable ones. Needs quite a bit of editing and whatnot I know. ---- It was a warm and sunny autumn, a time of Halloween and festivities. Everyone, including the children prepared for the event. Each person working on their part they would contribute to the festival. Among the busily working children at Shady Oak’s Middle School was myself, William Trump. I wasn’t a popular kid or a well-liked child. I hid my face behind overly large glasses, and dirty, long brown hair. You could see myself bent over a piece of my work, working just as hard as any child. But I was alone, I had few friends. “Hey, William,” Charles, one o…

PROLOGUE You might be wondering who I am, what I do and why I’m writing this story down. And I must say that regardless of whether or not you take my word for it, it really happened. None of these events are faked nor are any of them imaginary. To sum me up, I was living the life of a single and dull man. I’m an average man who works at an office for some giant corporation. There was nothing remarkable about me. I was average looking, I had a slight gut from my lack of exercise and I had no remarkable skills or hobbies. I was average at my job and even more average in my choice of car. It was a beaten up, foreign-built, good on gas mileage, average car. It was even of a …

Alright, this story is actually a complete work and therefore I can only share the first three or four chapters with you guys for free (gotta make my pennies somehow). If you're interested in reading more of the work, it's available on Amazon or if you're lucky and ask nicely, I'll share the rest for free. Without further adieu, I hope you all enjoy Shawn's adventures in The Shadow Shaman Saga, book one, Trapped! - Chapter One Dreams are power. Shawn Mendez had heard his aunt mentioning it more than once since he’d revealed that he’d begun having dreams of the past, the present and the future. That he’d seen shadows begin to dance upon the walls, beckoning him to com…

An entry for a microfiction competition - 24 hour competition, write 100 words with the following prompt: must be in genre of romance, must include action ‘borrowing clothing’, must include word ‘still’. This was one of the tougher 100 word challenges I’ve ever done. It didn’t progress to the next round of the competition, but it did get an honourable mention from the judges, which I’ll take.

Another short story this time. Different version of the same 100 word competition (again I didn’t win, hah!) Rules for this competition: 24 hours from beginning, Genre - Fairy Tale and/or Fantasy, action - grunting, specific word - time. It’s a little janky - it was the first time I’d ever tried a 100 word story challenge. I am minded to try retelling this story - or whatever there is in my head of it - in another 100 words to see if it flows better and makes the point it’s trying to make. The judges’ feedback definitely showed a sense of missing the point I was trying to make. Curious to see what people make of this.