Mathieu
During a trip to Las Vegas, two friends come across two girls in the wee hours of the morning.
Kedzie
The Avondale tracks and freight yard, with surrounding factories and warehouses were our wilderness, our playground, our clubhouse, our retreat from the world, our place to brag boldly and dream big.
J Maynard Quimby
Porch Swings In Glory is an essay exploring the author's memories of an Ozarks childhood with his grandparents and their neighbors.
Kedzie
This is not a horror story. It's actually a sweet story. Inspired by recent essay submissions, and by Brooke's mention in Rolling Stone, I decided to revisit and finish an essay started years ago.
MW Mills
A son who puts his dad on a pedestal deals with abandonment and suicide. Years later, someone lost comes up who can make it all right. Only but that takes a two-person lift.
Scott Grossman
Chapter One. Augusten Burroughs meets Chuck Klosterman meets Charles Bukowski meets Spalding Gray.
Scott Grossman
This is how it all starts, my rationale for literary evisceration. Sometimes it hurts more to keep it in.
Scott Grossman
Excerpt from a memoir detailing the train-wreck that was my childhood. My goal here is to win publication in literary journals. It encompasses my life up to age seven. Pass slowly, be sure to gawk.
Flycatcher
Having been drafted, boy struggles with military life.
Hanna Wattendorff
If love is unattainable, what's so terrible about prostitution?
Hanna Wattendorff
A hitchhiker gets a ride, and becomes involved with the man who picked her up.
Hanna Wattendorff
A Dutch immigrant, Tessa, looks back on her very first visit to the U.S.
Chacron
I've been working on a new blurb and two author biogs to go with my first self published novel, Shadow's Talent. If you want quick review points, I need some thoughts, and edits if you're willing.
Ronzermonster
2005-2015: A condensed history of my music recording career.
msgayl
I wrote this after speaking to a guy on an online dating site who described himself as a "bitter boy". That statement definitely triggered me and got me thinking about past and future choices.
Rudolf Marcell ...
This piece of writing, set in the UK, 1995, is a semi-biographical short story that grew out of the homework assignment in Chuck's 'Establishing Your Authority' article. It's all 'heart' method!
MikeJesus
A story about a young boy and the rise and fall of his artistic career.
brianbrianbrian
Joe Dolan 1939-2007, an Irish singer. This story is about emigrants processing the news of his death.
brianbrianbrian
This story is set in an Irish school in the early 1990s. A child has an accident and his teacher and class react to it.
Liam Soutar
The introduction to a story about the rise and fall of a supermarket assistant, in which the protagonist comically details the predicament of his employment status.
Kurtis Martyn
I started a photography magazine, this is the start of my first publishers letter.
Bobby Dee
In 2002 I spent six weeks in pre-trial custody at my local lock up. This is what happened.
Ciarán Micheal
A tale of one man's inner monologue speaking out against its prat owner. Semi-autobiographical, too ashamed to say which half.