Welcome to The Graveyard.
This is where I put any work or ideas that I have decided to officially retire for one reason or another.
The Graveyard can, potentially, provide some use to those interested in following my career and evolution as a writer BUT may also serve those looking for inspiration as well as a place to find object lessons on what NOT to do in the form of failures that I eventually learned to overcome and the stories or concepts that helped me to do so.
Explore at your own peril!
Some of the writing is pretty bland/bad. Worse, a lot of it is just outright edgy and cringey as hell! But, hey, you can't get better if you didn't start out "bad" in some way or another, right? That's the real point of this section. To encourage others.
These are my mistakes and each one of them helped me learn. A LOT. And you cannot learn, you cannot get better without, first having made a mistake or being ignorant or incorrect.
So....
Look... Hey. Don't be so hard on yourself.
Behold the corny writing of my youth (at least my youth as a writer, lol) and feel better about your own work and then, maybe, just maybe, learn a few ways that you, too, can improve!
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How could someone with a disease that requires constant medication survive in a post-apocalyptic America, destroyed by an all-encompassing civil war?
Running Since The Pigs and Poppies is a first-person speculative fiction narrative that takes a look at how difficult it would be to survive a post-apocalyptic (or even a normal) civil war if you have a disease that requires non-stop medicine. It is based on speculations between my father-in-law and myself about how difficult surviving something like this would be for either of us. My father-in-law has his bones growing in the wrong place and requires constant painkillers and I am a type one Diabetic that would die horribly in a week tops without insulin, so neither of our chances look great in even a Syria type situation, let alone something more akin to Mad Max. Running Since the Pigs and Poppies is a rough approximation of what our chances might look like.
Gems Inc
Gems Inc was a story that really sucked... like, a lot. But it helped me learn how to make conversations sound human, so, it WAS useful, in the end.
Never Eat Out
Never Eat Out was my attempt at a more grounded horror story. It was too gruesome to be enjoyed and it didn't really have anything to say besides being a somewhat neat what if sort of concept.
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Murder Day is a short science fiction story, set in a very near future world where the Roman Empire never quite fell and America as well as the Western World as we know it rolled those philosophies and traditions even deeper into their own cultural substrate. This leads our protagonist to face the end of another dreary and lonesome year fawning over his only friend and not so secret love interest as she struggles with her serious depression and suicidal tendencies as the gigantic year ending behemoth of a holiday, Murder Day, looms ever nearer.
Murder Day is a story about two sad youths struggling against their own issues and those they have with each other in addition to running up against societies unwillingness to change and the grinchy feelings that the more corporate side of the real world holiday season can engender in people. There is some discussion of suicide and societally accepted violence in addition to touching on the right to die debate and general themes of sadness and depression.
