This is an index of my writing publicly available online. I have a variety of short stories, a few essays, and three novels. To save you time, here are a few of my favorite things I’ve written:
The Love Song of Spiders to Mice: A love poem about inevitable longing.
SELFAGGRANDIZE PART II: What if you never had any trouble adequately describing yourself?
West of Yakutat: When Roan Dzilenski takes on a freelance story in Alaska for her old newspaper, partly as an excuse to get some space from a relationship long turned stale, she doesn't realize she's bitten off far more than she can chew. In the quiet, cozy surf town of Yakutat, Alaska, Roan meets with an ex-Texan sculptor whose sudden disappearance from the Corpus Christi art scene sparked a frenzy of rumors and innuendoes. At first she assumes it's a simple story and tries to work out what he's running from, but by the time she works out what exactly he's running TO, she's already deep beneath the surface and struggling for air. In the meantime, Roan's girlfriend Elena is forced to team up with her despised former boss to mount a rescue mission once Roan doesn't report back - but will there be anything left to save? A sequel to my earlier novel, Down the Rabbit Hole.
Find all my writing below the break.
SHORT STORIES:
The Gospel According to Joseph: Do you require proof to believe?
SELFAGGRANDIZE PART III: When the prodigal daughter returns, the only gift she brings is change.
The Axeman Cometh: An Olympic athlete and her trainer hunt the minotaur in between events, but the real monster is lurking someplace none of them expect.
Teatime: The literary equivalent of overhearing one half of a five-minute phone conversation from two seats away while you're halfway falling asleep on the way home on the MBTA Commuter Rail heading to South Attleboro station, at around 9 PM, in December, circa 2005.
Stheno’s Day Off: Only the statues know what lies beneath the beggar girl's blindfold.
Slayer: How do you kill a dragon that’s bigger than the sun?
SELFAGGRANDIZE PART II: What if you never had any trouble adequately describing yourself?
New Cumae: In a world where life and injury are both eternal, how might people cope with their cumbersome permanence?
Miss Polaris: If you knew that the moment you stopped running you’d die, what would make you stop?
Ishtarmacadam: A man's unlikely relationship with the larva of a god turns out to be much more than he bargained for.
Dock Days: A man who can see into the future finds an unlikely roommate.
Die, Son: A Von Neumann machine tasked with disassembling a solar system is strangled in the crib.
Corrie the Crab’s Big Surprise!: Everyone at the sandbar is excited for Corrie the Crab’s violin recital!
Black Cherry Pie: What if you had a nosebleed that just wouldn’t stop?
Among the Stars: What happens after the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?
A Trip to the Cinema: Roth's weekly trip to the Kinopolis Cinema takes an unfortunate turn.
A Death in the Family: After a young woman’s uncle devours a mailman, she finds her sense of familial obligation stretched to the breaking point.
The Spending of the Coins: What really happened to Judas Iscariot?
The Incineration of Esme Smeck: A peculiarly overlookable woman accepts her fate with equanimity.
The Littlest Giant: The Littlest Giant is spared the sword by a misunderstanding and takes his unintentional revenge.
There: A posthuman wanderer keeps up a one-sided dialogue with the inhuman monster stalking him.
Troy: A brilliant javelineer finds her life endangered by circumstances entirely out of her control.
Sand: In a world where every person knows the exact date and time of their death, the only question left is 'how?'
Sick Days: A girl is tormented by visions of her deceased father, who seems to want her to join him.
Adventures in the Land of the Permanently Adolescent: The narrator's illicit affair with his friend's imaginary friend is discovered, with predictable consequences.
The Mermaid: When a volcano erupts in the depths of the ocean, the sudden change in temperature forces an abyssal mermaid up into the light near the surface.
POETRY:
Desearia haber conocido tu cara: A love poem in the style of Neruda.
The Love Song of Spiders to Mice: A love poem about inevitable longing.
Untitled II: A melancholy introspective narrative after a late-night dinner.
The Victim of Altruism: A violent reflection on walking down the street.
burn after reading: A love poem about things unsaid.
NOVELS:
Down the Rabbit Hole: Roan Dzilenski is a reporter on a ticking clock, who stumbles accidentally across one of the biggest and meatiest mysteries of the last decade: what really happened at Mystery Flesh Pit in 2007, and what is happening inside the high fence and patrolled trails of the former National Park today in 2011? Her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her straight down the rabbit hole, chasing knowledge that will either change, end, or perhaps save her life.
Consider Your Ways: When a booming voice from the heavens woke Mickey Ruiz in the dead of night with the announcement that the end of days would begin soon, he was almost too terrified to think straight. But as the days stretched onwards, both he and the rest of the world were almost able to believe it had been nothing more than a dream. That dream, however, quickly turns real when an angel falls out of the sky like a blazing meteor. The angel seems hurt, and what can he do but try and help it? But Mickey and his friends soon realize that the strange, pitch-black angel is only the beginning of the wild changes soon to erupt in the quiet mountain town of Hamilton, Montana...
Mako Shark Mermaid, jumping high from water, like its irl inspiration.
Finally, made some art.
Decided to do mermay challenge, but I kinda knew different things in my life would eat time so I wouldn’t get to do it properly. So yeah, it could be the first one out of 30 entries, but deadlines are mean critters. But again, who knows, maybe my mermay will go on in june and later.
