2022. Written for a Topics in English class focusing on supernatural narratives, taught by Joanna Howard. Follows campaign advisor Robert Cartwright and his beleaguered superior C.J Hicks as they horrifically botch the satanic ritual required to bring their senatorial candidate to life. Attempts to marry complex, high-concept worldbuilding with political satire with some very heavy blood and gore. First short story I ever wrote that genuinely felt like something a person could read, and not amateur scratch dumped into Canvas for participation points. 

2023. Written for an Advanced Creative Writing class taught by Joanna Howard. Science fiction story about a woman who has been turned into a targeting system, and her sister, who has to take care of her body, and the bodies of several other women who have undergone the same conversion. Came to me fully formed and beat me over the head with itself until I sat down and wrote it in a series of fits I do not fully remember- probably the most complete, well-structured thing I have written to date. I am very proud of it. Sometimes I don't know if I should be. 

2024. Written for an Advanced Creative Writing class taught by Joanna Howard. An exercise in limitation; I like to give myself weird rules to test my range, adaptability, and capacity to learn on a tight-timeline project. For this one I had to invert my typical style and themes: the writing had to be spare and arch, the characters had to like each other, and it had to stay and remain serious and not get self-referential or insecure. There are definitely bits of it where I get a little too excited and slip into the familiar register, but it was hard enough to write well that I figure I gained a few new muscles from the endeavor.