This is the intro to Time Tours Incorporated, a short story about a researcher who goes back in time to 1452 to witness for himself the events of The First Outbreak. This story, and others, will be available soon in…

We had a pretty simple Christmas tradition, when I was growing up. My parents and I would wake sedately and trundle on down to the dining room table, where we would open presents, drink orange juice, and have cheese and…

 (This short story was written as a companion piece to Daydreamers, my storytelling course for ages 10-13. Sections of it are used along the way to illustrate such ideas as character development, scene creation, dialogue use, tension and a bunch…

I wrote my first short story when I was about 8 or 9 years old, if memory serves. Maybe it was a little later. I don’t know. Memory is a highly subjective thing. We think we remember a thing but…

From time to time, through my video series and because I make the offer, school-aged kids send me their stories for my feedback. Here is one such case, from a young ten-year old guy. I always reply, to everything I…