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Welcome to a collection of my written works! Here, you will find several short stories and poems I have created over the years.
My Short Stories
"Free!" is an atmospheric piece focused on exploring the emotional response to liberation. It was written in 2023 as a writing exercise.
"Angel on the Steps" was written for my final project at Lewis and Clarke's Fir Acres Writing Workshop. I was inspired by dystopian short stories like that of Ray Bradbury, and by post Vietnam War reconstruction. I decided to go for a darker, more dystopian take on the reconstruction, and wrote a tragedy with a different style of narration. Focuses on character, setting, themes of war and suffering.
"Where God Goes" focuses on exploring how childhood trauma often affects adult life, specifically religious trauma. This story has themes of grief, internal conflict, and, of course, religious turbulence. I wrote this to further explore religion and the psychology behind the dark paths some choose despite the bright.
"Look After Me" is a short story with a dual perspective. Written at the end of 2023, I was inspired by cults as seen in "Midsommar", and my friend who suggested a prompt about kidnapping. This piece focuses on themes of friendship, sacrifice, and ultimately salvation. I wanted to get into the head of cult leaders, and I experimented with manipulation tactics.
"Why The Meadow Matters" was submitted to Fir Acres Writing Workshop, of which I was accepted into. Written in 2023, this piece is about friendship and childhood innocence in times of oppression. I experimented with narration, and created one set in third person that sounds like a verbal story passed down from family members.
"Creation and Destruction" was a short piece written for a project during the Yale Young Writers Workshop. The assignment was to convey a large passage of time in as few words as possible, and I chose to write about the Earth's changes in surface over millions of years. Themes of life and death, building and destroying.
"500 Word Story" was a project for the Yale Young Writers Workshop. I did a different play on grief and dying, from the perspective of the dead. Themes of relief and melancholy simultaneously, as death is welcomed, and life is parting.
"The Lost Necklace" was written for an assignment in my ninth grade Creative Writing Class. We were assigned a setting, a character name, and a very general plot. I was assigned New York City, Taylor, and archaeology. I decided to experiment with a male perspective during a past era, a young ambitious man. I explored the idea of wanting what you don't/can't have, and themes of dream v reality.
"Diana's Final Christmas" was an experiment with plot structure at the end of the first semester of my ninth grade creative writing class. I wanted to make a tragedy inspired by a brutal English winter in the late 1800s. I used a painting of a girl by William-Adolphe Bouguereau called The Young Shepherdess, to inspire her appearance and aura.
"The Family of Audubon" was the first real short story I've written, and certainly the first one I am still proud of. It is a dual perspective piece, an assignment for my ninth grade Creative Writing class on plot structure. I chose to do a dual perspective as it interested me, and I wanted to explore double lives, betrayal, and how sisterhood can be forged no matter the situation.
