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Christina, a washed-up looking 30 year old is sitting at a seedy bar drinking a Manhattan Cocktail and applying rouge. Matthew, a 50 year old salesman wearing a suit with a loose tie is sitting next to her sipping scotch on the rocks. A bartender swipes down the counter. Christina: You know I was aContinue reading “Piece Modeled after “Good Morning Romeo””

Characters: An old man with a cane and a handlebar mustache and a middle-aged woman with pinkish skin Time: 9:45 am Setting: A large church with many pews, a large stage, and a small altar. The old man sits on a pew four rows back, aisle seat, left of center. The pink woman stands nextContinue reading “Short Story as a Play”

While drama is, for the most part, fictional, it is very different from your average fictional story. For one thing, drama must be condensed to dialogue and action. The characters inner thoughts and feelings must be expressed outwardly in drama, while in fiction they can be explained without being expressed. Additionally, fiction has the luxuryContinue reading “Drama as Fiction”

My hidden love only comes to me in the garden, while I walk alone amidst the lily’s, like a song that only plays when one doesn’t feel like dancing. He always leaves notes under the waning moon for me to find when the storm grows too chaotic for me to handle. The sea always crashesContinue reading “In Class Exercise: 4/20/20”

Creating dense poetry increases the intensity of the work. Dense poetry can be made my using nouns and active verbs as opposed to adjectives and filler words. In poetry, every word counts, and therein lies the intensity.

COVID-19 the windows – ablaze but you cannot see anyone inside streets are empty upturned like that table Jesus flipped in the temple though none of us are selling anything these days maybe it’s the end or maybe it’s a sign it feels like the D in Dollar Tree blinking, blinking out and all ofContinue reading “Modeled after “Love is Not an Emergency””

Personally, I prefer more formal styles of poetry. I spent 9 years of my life as a percussionist in high school and then college bands, so the rhythm of poetry is very important to me. Additionally, I am a songwriter. If the chorus of a song doesn’t, to some extent, include patterns of rhythm andContinue reading “Formal vs. Free Verse”

My beat up Ford rattles as I turn down the long dirt road. “This is 98.7 Your Hometown Radio Station” crows the old radio from beneath the dashboard hula-girl. Today is Friday, so I am going to see his grave. It is nothing special, just an old headstone thrown up in haste by the U.S.Continue reading “Try This 9.6”

The beagle with a black patch over his eye whimpered and whined from where he lay under the red velvet ottoman. She should yell at him for laying on the oriental rug or for chewing on the gold tassels that hung from the ottoman or for all this damn whimpering and whining, but she wouldn’t.Continue reading “Short Story Scenes and Summary”