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Gordon Luck (Day Two)

(Short Story)

Gordon unlocks the store the same way an open parentheses starts the hug on a hushed (after) thought. Gordon turns the key, the seedy green keychain-tag with NV TROPHIES scrawled on its square, dangles across his palm.
Inside, dawn light is coming in in sheets through mostly-open Venetian blinds. There’s two huge tables covered in [...]

National Young Writers’ Month and Gordon Luck

Eeep. Yes, eep. That’s the monosyllable sound I make when starting something late. It’s day four of National Young Writers’ Month and I still haven’t started my goal: to work on a short story everyday for a month. Akin to this short story I will write a screenplay adaptation of it (also on a daily [...]