Welcome Back! We have another new contributor this week; Robin Nyström has started a perfect story for series regular, Laurel, to finish. Robin has been working very hard on a web-series called Nicolife, and I encourage all of you to go check it out. Hope you enjoy today's entry, and be sure to check back tomorrow for … Continue reading Unfinished Stories – Greenway Gothic, by Robin Nyström & Laurel Degutis
Unfinished Stories – The Field, by Laurel Degutis & Esdras Tirado
Welcome back to Unfinished Stories. We have a new writer with us, Esdras Tirado. He finished Laurel's latest entry this week. Hope you enjoy! And check back tomorrow for another entry! --- Morgan and I went to The Field after school. We often did. It was different and isolated, a place to get away I … Continue reading Unfinished Stories – The Field, by Laurel Degutis & Esdras Tirado
Unfinished Stories – Dream, by Redzuan Abdul Rahim & Dawn Locklear
Good afternoon friends. Redzuan, or Red to his friends, is another fresh face to Unfinished Stories this week. His entry, finished by a returning Dawn Locklear, is a fantastic tale that will leave you thinking about it long after. Enjoy and see you tomorrow. — “Welcome, welcome!” barked the lanky man as he stood atop his … Continue reading Unfinished Stories – Dream, by Redzuan Abdul Rahim & Dawn Locklear
If it were only a flesh wound…
I wanted to have a really insightful and poignant post about how far we have come as a nation and how far we have to go. In the last two weeks we have seen the lowest parts of humanity at a church in South Carolina, racism and hate incarnate, and we have seen that sometimes … Continue reading If it were only a flesh wound…
Unfinished Stories – Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Dawn Locklear & Laurel Degutis
Dawn and Laurel created this fanciful entry. Please enjoy and share! Give a Mouse a Cookie "Give a mouse a cookie...why would I do that?" She asked the man in her dream. "What the hell?" jarred awake and terrified as lightning struck the tree above her. Cascading leaves and branches creating a soft cave over … Continue reading Unfinished Stories – Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Dawn Locklear & Laurel Degutis
Unfinished Stories – Daughter/Mother, by Laurel Degutis & Jeffery Crow
Laurel started it. I finished it. We both hope you enjoy. Daughter/Mother Mom was home. She knew not so much because of the sound of the door opening, like a vacuum seal peeled back from the edges of a prepackaged snack. And not so much because of the sound of keys jangling and clacking against … Continue reading Unfinished Stories – Daughter/Mother, by Laurel Degutis & Jeffery Crow
Unfinished Stories – The Headache, by Laurel Degutis & Dawn Locklear
Editor's Note - I wouldn't normally do this, but I felt it would only be right to warn: there is some adult language ahead. Excellent, expertly crafted, adult language. Proceed accordingly. No bitching, you've been warned. The Headache The florescent light clashes with the sun streaming through small and high windows over the office kitchenette. That’s about … Continue reading Unfinished Stories – The Headache, by Laurel Degutis & Dawn Locklear
Vacation-gram: “What’ll You Have?”
Hello All! I am still on vacation this week. I am now sitting on the beach, enjoying an iced coffee and some sun. Or sitting in my room playing Cities: Skyline, which is much more likely. Anyways, I wanted to make sure you still had something to keep you busy. This was written for a Writer's … Continue reading Vacation-gram: “What’ll You Have?”
Vacation-gram: Airport Adventures
Hello All! I am on vacation this week. And while I am off having fun, or sitting under a fan watching The Avengers (don't judge), I wanted to make sure you had some enjoyable things to read. So, here is something I wrote after a trip to Seattle. Enjoy! At lunch I somehow struck up … Continue reading Vacation-gram: Airport Adventures
#UnfinishedStories
Hello Everyone. So often we have stories that we leave unfinished; whether we lose interest, or run out of time, or the story just doesn’t go anywhere else for us. These stories just sit, languishing in our subconscious or our hard drives (which sometimes are the same thing). What if we could finish each other’s … Continue reading #UnfinishedStories
Sword & Quill 