THE GREAT AMERICAN HERO: A Short Story by Michael Conniff
COPYRIGHT © 2021 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED War breaks out when she comes home. ONE She took the first seat in the last car on the train. She was going home though home [...]
How To Crowdsource A Short Story: OPTION RIGHT by Michael Conniff
I don’t know what took me so long to get wise to crowdsourcing my stories. Maybe it was my old-school notion that writing a story actually required an individual person to do the work. (How [...]
WEE: A (Crowdsourced) Short Story by Michael Conniff
WEE By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved “Stop!” she said. She had never said that word to Scotty since they met at her brother’s wedding. He had been marvelous, miraculously clever on [...]
OPTION RIGHT 2.O: A (Crowdsourced) Short Story By Michael Conniff
Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved From the beginning playing football at Kent Abbey was supposed to be a higher calling for someone with my O’Kell pedigree. My odious half-brother Tom lettered three times [...]
ATOMIC TOM: A Short Story by Michael Conniff from the BOOK OF O’KELLS
ATOMIC TOM By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2019 All Rights Reserved A Short Story from the novel BOOK OF O’KELLS: NATURE OF THE BEAST The world knows Atomic Tom O’Kell was a hellish [...]
WRITE GOOD! Author Desperately Seeking Help With ‘Option Right’ Short Story
Hello, it’s me, your friendly neighborhood writer, and I have a problem with a short story I just wrote. I don’t know what’s missing and I need your help to figure it out. The story [...]
OPTION RIGHT 1.0: A Short Story by Michael Conniff from the BOOK OF O’KELLS
Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved From the beginning I was supposed to play football at Kent Abbey. Nobody in my family ever said anything about it—not even my odious half-brother Tom. He lettered three [...]
HAPPY ENDINGS: A Short Story by Michael Conniff
HAPPY ENDINGS A Short Story By Michael Conniff She kissed him on the mouth so hard it hurt. She had never kissed him that way before: her mouth had never been a weapon that [...]
LIVES OF THE SAINTS: A Short Story by Michael Conniff
LIVES OF THE SAINTS By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2020 All Rights Reserved Wendy K. Marks Yankee Doodle Sweetheart Former pom-pom girl Wendy Marks, 44, was a Yankee Doodle Sweetheart literally born on [...]
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES: A Short Story by Michael Conniff
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2018 All Rights Reserved All that Clay and me had asked for was justice for all, but there was no justice in the suburbs, not [...]