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Creative Writing
"The Intimacy of Raindrops"
This is a nostalgia in prose, as an elderly woman reminisces on her life, and her losses, as she feels her own vitality fading, comfortably, away.
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Originally published in the Spring 2022 edition of The Blue Route.
"Sea Sick"
Second-place winner of the 2020 Al Landwehr Fiction Writing Contest.
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This story follows Roger, a sentimentalist longing for the dry days of his childhood, searching, possibly in vain, for the last vestige of land on a flooded Earth.
"The Snake"
Second-place winner of the 2021 Al Landwehr Fiction Writing Contest.
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This story follows a couple as they fight through painful memories, trapped in a liminal space, tensions rising as a snake looms underfoot.
Quotes and Reviews
"The Blue Route's 27th issue is the culmination of many amazing writers demonstrating their resilience, but more importantly, their positivity and passion. In the most pressing times, we need work of art and literature like the ones presented in this issue. They elevate us and bring about our own growth. Good literature should always remind us how to be a better version of ourselves, and I hope you recieve that same satisfaction from reading them."
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-Stephen Cozza, editor-in-chief
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"'The Snake' is a strange and outrageous tale that brings together an eclectic group of characters who are navigating their desires along with an actual snake!"
-Akil Kumarasamy, 2021 judge and author of Half Bloods and Meet Us By the Roaring Sea
"This unsettling, post-apocalyptic story uses its nautical setting to put the reader in an existenial quandry. We understand how the rising oceans have wiped away the ground on which we once stood. We understand how salt corrodes. We feel the dea beneath us, its depths uncharted. And we're left on a small and inadequate boat, navigating with only our insufficient access to the water's surface, trying to find our way."
- Silas Dent Zobal, 2020 judge and author of The Inconvenience of the Wings
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