this is a collection of unpolished, imperfect, messy snippets either from writing exercises or unfinished stories. I’m putting these here to document my progress as a writer, and to remind myself that writing is writing is writing — even if its not perfect.

currently working on my first interactive fiction.

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ochre waters

“Heat bore down on our colony as fingers to a bruise, and it manifested as stickiness under my arms, barren dirt in the land—as though our bodies were forced to suck moisture from the earth to keep them whole.”

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fire

“Don’t burn,’ he whispers, voice barely lifting over the howling wind, his hot breath fanning down my exposed throat like a flame, there and gone.”

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wow! if you made it to the bottom of this, here’s my most unpolished but longest work (~53K words!): The Hall of Masks. This is a “zero draft” I wrote in 2019 - it is very, very unpolished and mostly word vomit, but it was my first time sticking with a full-length story until the end of the writing process. If I can do it once, I can do it again!