SCREENPLAY: ALTAR – OUT NOW!
I am releasing the screenplay for my recently released short film ALTAR. Here you can get an idea of my writing process along with the changes made while shooting and editing. This was my first attempt at writing a screenplay since college, almost ten years ago. I enjoyed the lack of pressure compared to writing…
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SHORT STORY: Road Trip
(Short story from 2016, Junior Year at Ohio University) A sugar maple emerges from the Appalachia, casting a perfect shadow over a crossed-legged figure resting in the shade. In this patch of cool isolation, the lotus figure draws yawning breaths, expanding the cavities of his lungs, until the very point of consciousness withers into a tranquil departure. The figure repeats the rhythm, eyes sealed shut; gently fading the tone of the Pennsylvania highway and the constant anxieties,…
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SHORT STORY: ROWDY’S
(Short Story is from 2016, Junior Year at Ohio University) The three of us squatted on the corner of 52nd and Market Street, rotating broken cigarettes and a can of Arnold Palmer, observing as the city of Philadelphia lay rotting underneath the blistering rays of an August sun. The beams of sunlight rippled the brick-scale architecture into coiled wavelengths, shattering the proud historic…
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SHORT STORY: RV
(Short Story was written in 2015, Sophomore Year at Ohio University) Ethan detached the water pipe from the embrace of his lips and exhaled, observing as the smoke ascended into a blanket of developing stratus clouds. He enjoyed watching individual wisps of smoke twist and sputter into shapes before dissipating. It was sweet and abstract – numbing yet sensational. Across the room, The Flaming Lips’ propelled “Fight Test” through a pair…
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SHORT-SHORT STORT: Yogurt Factory
In college, I hated writing because of a narcissistic professor who hated my dark and disturbing writings; and to a degree, resented my abilities as a writer. Joan tried to beat the pen out of my hand. Bad grades, incoherent after-class advice, a lack of constructive feedback, and an obvious avoidance problem. After a few…
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SHORT STORY: PARANOID
(This short story was written 2015, Sophomore Year at Ohio University) A brittle moonlight excelled above the horizon, pinning the silhouette of a shrouded figure against the dimness of the apartment’s back alleyway. With each advancing step, beads of sweat pounded profusely from the pores of my brow. A menacing ache slithered through my ribs and into my gut. I rapidly shifted my wrist into view, and darted my…
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SHORT STORY: Abduction
(This is a rough draft)“We’re late,” shouted Eric, “late, late, late – What the fuck is going on back there?” The door breached wide-open, followed by Eric marching from the hotel room with two lunar eyes, distorted hazelnut locks, and a vintage Grateful Dead t-shirt, a black backpack strewn over his right shoulder; duffel bag…
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SHORT STORY: Encumbered
“My back.” Her hands churned through unflinching flesh, exploring the reaction from the man sewn to her leather massage table. “My back.” Hair pronounced from his nude body like a series of explanation points, static – reaching for the sunlight cast through a single, rectangular basement window. “MY BACK!” Muscles tightened, breathing intensified, as she…
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SHORT STORY: Old Roads
Horse hooves reverberated along dilapidated roads, singing to the hover-cars dotting the constellated sky. Abraham, buggy reigns in hand, trotted down the Old Roads in a shrouded carriage – gazing upon the empty Lincoln Highway while igniting a fresh tobacco pipe. When he exhaled, the smoke littered from the buggy window, sputtering into the moist,…
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