I updated my stories page with a new short story. This was a story I wrote in late 2024, which was the last year we did our family writing contest. I've written before about the family writing content.
Here's the opening from that story.
Winter.
The wall calendar was barely hanging on, but it was stuck there, on the fridge, dangling from an ALFA Insurance magnet attached at the corner. The magnet had the too-smiley face of their family insurance salesman on one side, and on the other side, the days of the month from a month that had long-since passed. Brandon Winter was angry his mom kept this mix of calendars on the fridge, past and present pulling at each other and yet somehow working together. He was staring at the date on the wall calendar. It was February 10, two months to the day from when he had been laid off from his job at World Wide Solutions.
The rest is continued in The Making of Brand Winner. Please check it out!