Pastiche Stories

Hadley Davis is your atypical highschool student who refuses to reform to the normalcies of "falling in love". She's a realist & anti-romantic tasked with a summative writing assignment of a 'highschool sweetheart' short story. For someone like Hadley she'll need someone like Silas. The school's heart throb and Hadley's key to an 'A'. Follow along Hadley's and Silas's chronicles of dating for intel while trying to avoid the clichés of it all.

{ Space Opera | COMPLETE } After a shady government contract goes sour, expert smuggler Daren finds himself working alongside an enemy scientist in a race against invasion - and an opponent who may be able to predict the future. ~ ~ ~ ~ Author's Note ~ ~ ~ ~ 'FutureSight' is an old story. I've posted it here for reference as I'd like exploring Daren's universe further. Based off a movie I saw in a dream, years ago. Cover art thanks to: Photo by Alex Andrews from Pexels As always, comments are appreciated!

"Thrice Burned" continues the adventures of young Canadian Portia Adams' life in 1930s London, as the amateur detective takes on three new cases as the newest consulting detective to hail from 221 Baker Street. You've read her side of the story. Now read Annie's. Disgraced reporter Annie Coleson has her own agenda when it comes to the budding detective and she will do everything in her power to gain Portia's trust. What she didn't count on was gaining a true friend. "Thrice Burned" was published in Canada by Fierce Ink Press in March 2015, and is available in bookstores, and online at Amazon, and Chapters-Indigo.

Poems like these usually aren't shared because people prefer to keep their emotions hidden and out of sight for whatever reason. I simply don't believe in that though. That's why I decided to share these personal poems that express how I felt in each of my past relationships. Some were great, some made me want to rip my heart bleeding from my own body, but no one ever said that life would be easy. I hope you'll enjoy/be inspired?

An exciting Sherlock Holmes pastiche, told with wit and humour.

Five years ago, the whole country knew Howl as the face of a national public safety initiative that encouraged kids to say no to drugs, keep away from firearms, and not talk to strangers. He had just made a dramatic exit from the corrupt pit of the Hot Type City Police Department and kicked off his own private investigative agency. He was geared up to start helping people for real. Then some punk put Howl's nephew in the dirt, and everything came to a screeching halt. Now, after a long downward spiral, Howl is one half-empty bottle of scotch away from complete destitution. His shot at redemption comes just in time when a former model struts off the page of a golden-age girlie mag and into his office. Her missing son's disappearance knocks Howl back into a world full of the drugs, guns, and predators he wasted his youth fighting. This time it will be different. He's got nothing to lose but something to prove. This time, he will win.

Outside the convento of Tiano, Basilio tells a young boy stories of ghosts that haunt their town; ghosts seeking solace, as well as redemption and revenge. He also speaks of his longing to see these ghosts, to find the answers to his own questions. But maybe the ghost he is looking for is closer than he thinks. This is set after the events of El Filibusterismo, the novel by Jose Rizal, and also mentions some characters from Noli me Tangere. Content warning: descriptions of gore and violence

Exploring pathways of the creative journey.

A Wonderlandian Pastiche. Matthias Haddler is the victim of an experiment in which is he is made to believe that he is the Mad Hatter alongside other "patients" in a false clockwork Wonderland. A young woman pretending to be a clockwork "Alice" appears out of nowhere to save them, but when she and Matthias fall into a real Wonderland, they begin to discover who tricked the scientists into their seemingly pointless scheme to begin with. While wading through the strange world, riddles and nonsense abound. Can they sift through which is which? Part mystery, part sci-fi, part fantasy, and with a little romance, the twists and turns seem endless, especially once the self-proclaimed Pantheon begins to see that the world they created is crumbling all around them. Stay tuned for part II of the duology called "Through Fragmented Glass"

The reality that we evaded till now hitting us vehemently in this lockdown. Contemplation-- the word we have forgotten, is again manifesting itself. This is the daily journal cum essay-- a pastiche of realities missed living in the fast pace world.

Two crime fighters in the city of San Alvaro keep running into each other.

Harry Potter accidentally turns 221B's cleaning supply closet into a magical portal that leads to worlds that reflect the deepest, most desperate curiosity of a person. Sherlock, unfortunately, didn't know that when he opened it to take out the vacuum cleaner.

My fiction response to "Writing Challenge: Texture, Tone, and Style" from page 61 of "Wonderbook The Illustrated Guide To Creating Imaginative Fiction" by Jeff Vandermeer. A painting (Scott Eagle's cover for Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen) is given as an example of a collage. The challenge is then to create something similar using words. (Part 1) ARDOR SAUCE: a Pastiche This was created from public domain sources I found by searching for a term I chose arbitrarily "mushroom." I sampled phrases containing this term, as well as any nearby phrases that caught my eye -the pastiche was created by shuffling phrases from these four sources -then references to "mycelium" or "mushroom" were replaced with one of: -- "compulsion", "fixation", "whim", "ardor", "craving", or "longing" -- a very few other minor alterations to text or changes in punctuation were included Public domain works used: -MUSHROOMS: How to Grow Them. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON Mushroom Culture for Profit and Pleasure. BY WILLIAM FALCONER -STUDENT'S HAND-BOOK OF MUSHROOMS OF AMERICA by Thomas Taylor -Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions -The Whitehouse Cookbook by Mrs. F.L. Gillette (Part 2) Alchemical Remix After completing Ardor Sauce, I wanted to tie its various samples together a bit more tightly without changing them too drastically, so I added an "alchemist training manual" through-line, then reshuffled and pruned them to more closely approximate a time sequence. The cover image is used via Creative Commons share-alike license. It was posted by Dan Molter https://mushroomobserver.org/observer/show_user/439 It was taken from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hygrocybe_psittacina_54130.jpg The image is cropped to fit size requirements, but otherwise unaltered. I make no other claim regarding the image.

I am Carmen. Have you heard of me? I guess not. Aren't you one of those kids who sang the chant "Pen Pen de Sarapen" with smiles painted on their faces on the streets where I used to collapse on, battered and bruised? Hear me out, please. I am Carmen, a maiden of misfortune on the hands of the men who treated me like a toy.

When sickly Nicholas Wehrle Rutherford is sent to live with his grandfather in the winemaking community of Middle Bass Island, his grandfather, an aloof and gruff winemaker, resents the arrival of his estranged grandson. Old Man Wehrle still holds a grudge against Nicholas's parents for marrying against his wishes. Nicholas finds himself alone and miserable in the island, taunted by the other children because he is different. But things begin to change when Nicholas meets the spunky Aria Lonz of the neighboring Lonz Vineyards.

an omelas pastiche

This is "The Fault In Our Stars", Pastiche on chapter Chapter 20 form Isaac's point of view.

poetry from my jungled mind.