prose.
leave it to the prose
Professional writers always say that the best way to practice your craft is just to start writing and worry about perfecting later. I’m bad at that, but I’m trying! Here’s a few short stories and prose collections that I’ve worked on across the years. I’ve been writing short stories since I was six (and I won an award for it, so TECHNICALLY, I’m an award-winning writer), and it’s always been my true calling. I’m currently working on my first novel, and have plans for a bunch of others once the first one is finished. I love coming up with ideas, I love planning, I love crafting characters, I love writing, I hate editing, but every writer does. So, here you go: here’s to being one of the prose someday soon.
The Augur
This story delves into a few recurring themes of my writing: Catholic guilt, witchcraft and a little sprinkle of time-bending antics. It follows a monk who must solve the mystery at the heart of his monastery through his augury. This one was kind of inspired by Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, although very loosely.
Clockwork
One of the first short stories I ever planned, wrote, edited and finished - proud enough of it that I got a tattoo to commemorate it. It’s about a clockwork android dressed as a bride in a museum who falls in love with a security guard on the other side of the glass. These early short stories were very inspired by Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood’s writing styles, and my writing is still heavily inspired by them to this day.