Red-Eye, Red Eyes is a microfiction piece that tells the story of two runaway siblings trying to find a better life. I wrote it earlier this year as part of the creative writing program at my school, and it was one of the runner-ups in our annual microfiction competition.

I wrote Riverbed to capture the feelings of despair, fear, and resignation that so many have felt in recent years. Passion is something to be prized, but many sacrifice passion and resign themselves to a life they wouldn't have chosen if it weren't for the forces of the world.

I started writing with inspiration from the old, western saloon setting. I wanted to build off of that western world idea, but make it unique in some way while still fitting within the 500 word restriction. I decided to take that saloon setting and apply it to our area, specifically San Francisco around the Gold Rush.

This poem explores a specific perspective towards life and how time weathers your will to survive. It shows the decision to lean into perpetual repetition or instead seek a final resolution.

My goal was to show accurate emotions and what expression can look like. For “Mirrored Faces,” in particular I zeroed in on deeper emotions than being uncomfortable, or unsure of oneself. I wanted to make this piece meaningful to a broad variety of people.

This flash fiction was written a few years ago in response to a photo prompt of a military air force hangar.

This non-fiction piece of writing is about me as I share parts of my life with you, an audience willing to read. I fear that my story will never be shared with those outside my bubble but hope that this small vulnerable piece of writing can find it's way to someone who has had a similar beginning of life to mine.

It’s one of the saddest stories in scientific history to me, and I wrote this poem for closure, to reconcile the scientists’ real love for their space dogs and the cruelty of consciously inhumane animal testing. It’s from Laika’s perspective, innocent but with a tragic and ironic worldly kindness to it.

This was inspired by a story I wrote a long time ago, but I shortened it a good deal, and changed from a more traditional narrative style to stream-of-consciousness narration.

For a majority of the artwork that I make, and end up liking, all ties into a certain memory or feeling that I strongly connect too. It’s important that the pieces I create all relate together to show different aspects of myself, whether they be positive or negative emotions.

I feel many writers may relate and I think it is important to bring light to the freedom and pure joy that writing brings to so many of us. This piece fully explains my personal experience with writing and the reason it is so important in my life.

After reading Ross Gay's "Book of Delights," I was inspired to write about one special joy that came about after a year plus of online school work--closing tabs when completing an assignment. It took some time trying to think of how to bring my thoughts to life and to find the right words; but in the end, I composed an amusing little poem.

"Dissolution" is an experimental microfiction story that personifies the moon to create a unique point-of-view for the secondary character.

“Conflicted”, “Tears”, and “Words” are poems I wrote in 10th grade.

The process of writing the work was during a difficult time for me, I put my thoughts and feelings into this work.

This piece is a philosophy told through experiencing sadness.

Set in 1991 rural Indiana, it centers around a 14-year-old boy named Westly, who endures journeys of self-discovery, love, and friendship, under the cloak of a family and community that doesn't accept him. It is told through multiple perspectives, and over the course of 5 years, as he struggles with love, and freedom in contrast to the expectations of who he is supposed to be.

The piece Seedling is written about my feelings towards the fact that my sister will be moving to college in less than a year.

This is an excerpt from a short story that's based on a scene from a DnD game I was playing with my friends. In the game, it was our first look into the eerie crime sect of the city we were exploring.