So Many What-Ifs

Fiction (in whichever form it happens to present itself)

  • In the Moment

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

  • Rate & Review

    A short, rhyming story about the joys of ordering items online.

  • No Adventures

    The road she walked felt smooth and… wrong …

  • 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.

  • To Protect

    The castle walls stood wide and tall / “To protect”, they said, “should villains call” / The princess in its highest keep / “To protect”, they said, “our moats run deep” /

  • Ghost town

    It’s been a while since he’s gone out / To the small town, a little south / From where he settled down alone / Self-sufficient, his food home-grown …

  • Alignment

    The ground beneath your feet starts to rumble. Softly at first, but rapidly increasing in intensity, the tremors shaking you to your core, growing ever more violent, until you start to worry that you’ve made a grave error and are about to be swallowed whole and devoured by the earth.