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Read my blog! It is where I frequently
post everything writing. You want in my head, this is a good place to
start. With writing helps, ideas, personal struggles, and a place to
read my daily writing exercises. Check it out! (at Word Press) SamsonC - My new personal, anything goes blog. I use this blog when posting from my cell phone. Not always about writing, but always something. Feel free to see exactly where I am and what interests me. (Vox)
Poems by SamTheWriter
Short Stories To Sample & Flash Fiction - Flash Fiction from contests-
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Some tasty morsels of my
fiction So I can't just talk about how much I love writing short stories, and neglect to share some of my own, so, below I have put a few links to some of my fiction. Since I am a writer and would like to make a living doing it, I can't just give everything away. These stories are stories that can be found online; most of them are challenge writings, or from short fiction contests. Please read, enjoy, and feel free to drop me an e-mail letting me know what you thought.
.....Continued I had to get my hands on more, so I bought The Martian Chronicles, One More for the Road, Dandelion Wine, I Sing Body Electric, Long after Midnight. I read them all and it made me even more hungry, so, I tracked all Ray Bradbury's books down and ate up every single one. Soon I was introduced to C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, Joan Wester Anderson, Richard Matheson, Steven King, and Pamela Ditchoff. I quickly found that I loved short fiction. I like a good novel, don't get me wrong, but for me, there was something about being able to start and finish a story while drinking a cup of coffee during a lunch break. It is nice to be able to pick up a book just before I go to sleep, open it, read a whole story -experience a whole story in 3 to 6 pages, and still have time to sleep before I had to go clock in to my morning job in the early hours. The more I read, the more I discovered about myself. I was soon writing short stories in my mind, while at school and work. One day I wrote down a few of these stories. While I was working at a coffee shop a few years ago I had left one of my short stories on a table, and a co-worker found it and read it. By the end of the day, my story had been passed around the coffee shop and several people told me how awesome it was and wanted to see more. That was one of the most amazing feelings. I discovered that I had the ability to create situations, creatures, planets, characters, and storylines that others enjoyed visiting. My mind was open for tourists, and my pen was their transportation out of their everyday stressful lives and in to my literary worlds of fictitious creative realities. How strangely amazing it was to discover that I had the power to connect to another person and give them a momentary mental vacation to a place that provided an imaginary relief, which translated and transferred into their present reality, minus the stress- even though it was only for a moment. It made a lot of since though. I had found those same momentary vacations when;
Now I see that there is true art and beauty in short stories, that stretches much further than our mere love to write them. We the writers- the Artists, have a gift to connect and touch the lives of men; giving them something to look forward to in these amazing times of struggle and need. So I encourage you, Writer, to write, as one on fire, as one on a mission, as one desperately and feverishly stricken by the Muse. You have a gift, and gifts are made to give to others. Don't be selfish, don't keep your literary masterpiece to yourself; the world is dying to see something beautiful, experience something extraordinary, feel, taste, touch, and smell something more than day to day existence. You are the Writer; you have the key in your hand, the destination in your mind, let loose and let the world tour the vast expanses of the awe and wonder of your creative literary madness. |
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Check out some of my short stories, and flash fiction here. Most of these are links to online publications, or exercises. I gotta make money somehow, so most of my stuff is purchasable, or coming to a bookstore. |
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Short
stories are by far my favorite to write and read. When I was in junior high,
a friend let me borrow Ray Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man'. I had a hard
time putting it down, you could see me walking to school reading it, coming
home from football practice reading it. You could catch me under my blanket
at night reading it; I was addicted to Ray's literary masterpiece.
