Story time!

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Doing cre­ative things is fun and all, but shar­ing them is even bet­ter. So, for your enjoy­ment and mine, I’m going to start pub­lish­ing my short sto­ries on a semi-regular basis on this site. I’ve also cre­ated a sec­ond blog, Impulse: The Works, as a box for sto­ries, screen­plays, and other work — sort of an auto­matic anthol­ogy.
With that, here is the first story: “Natiki”. I hope you like it. I abo­lutely love com­ments and feedback.


“Natiki” is a story I wrote for a writ­ing group I’m involved in. The writ­ing prompt was sim­ply, “child­hood”. I chose not to write a typ­i­cally sen­ti­men­tal sto­ries. I wanted show chil­dren liv­ing in war rav­aged coun­tries and how, despite the harsh envi­ron­ment, kids still find ways to be chil­dren for as long as they can. The excel­lent movie Lord of War inspired me to write about a girl in africa. I was also moved by pho­tographs by Peter Turnley, Robert Doisneau, and Sebastiao Salgado.

Related posts:

  1. What makes a story?
  2. The per­fect story
  3. Story struc­ture, Joseph Campbell, and choco­late disasters
  4. Reading your mind with film
  5. RAAM: time to slice & dice

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