So Many What-Ifs

Fiction (in whichever form it happens to present itself)

  • In Search of Treasure

    My Round 2 entry for the NYC Midnight Rhyming Challenge 2025.

  • In the Moment

    My Round 1 entry for the NYC Midnight Rhyming Challenge 2025.

  • Papaya

    Below you’ll find my (unedited) entry for Round 1 of the NYC Midnight Rhyming Story Challenge 2024. My assignment was: Genre: RomanceTheme: Put out to pastureEmotion: Happy “We always knew the time would cometo say goodbye to dear old Tom!For forty years this was your life,alas, you couldn’t find a wife!Tonight we’re gonna send you…

  • The same old job

    Her phone buzzed as she left the scene …

  • The patron

    He just walked in one day …

  • Observe, preserve

    A front desk agent tries her best not to interfere in the private lives of her guests.

  • Begin

    It is early still …

  • The what?!

    You’ve been in this queue for a long time, and you don’t even know why. (You’re also not entirely sure how you got here in the first place, but you’ve got the feeling that the answer to that question would upset you in more ways than one, so you tell yourself that everything is fine.)