Creative Fiction
Photo by John Fenrich
If you are tired of the stubby sentence, if minimalist writing is your bane, if the phrase, "less is more, but more is much more," makes sense to you, this collection of literary fiction may be for you as it is a collective of flowing narratives of grotesque proportions in a style I call Bohemian Baroque with a limping run that wishes to fall over its own feet into smoking divinity.
"The snow banks were hard hills of magnificent shattered mirrors spreading angles of light in euphoric halos above everyone. Out of the crystallized mist of snow, the 104 bus approached with its perfectly polished headlamps breaking through any obstruction laid to waste behind the silver bullet he drove with a mad control"
--- From "A Cracked Head Narrative" by Joshua Dedora
"The snow banks were hard hills of magnificent shattered mirrors spreading angles of light in euphoric halos above everyone. Out of the crystallized mist of snow, the 104 bus approached with its perfectly polished headlamps breaking through any obstruction laid to waste behind the silver bullet he drove with a mad control"
--- From "A Cracked Head Narrative" by Joshua Dedora
Published Works
Follow the following links to find my published works.
Descant Magazine: "Cabby Driven Faith"
The Dalhousie Review: "Storekeeper: (A Romance)"
Esoteric Magazine: "Potholes"
Descant Magazine: "Cabby Driven Faith"
The Dalhousie Review: "Storekeeper: (A Romance)"
Esoteric Magazine: "Potholes"
Unpublished Works
As a gentleman of some standing, and a law student, I am torn in regards to how I would like these pieces treated. Part of me simply wants to rely on the goodwill of the internet community to not actual steal them -- this is the gentleman in me. However, the pragmatic law student recognizes that this is naive and I should simply put down the terms of reading these works.
1. I retain an exclusive right to publish these works. They are not in the public domain.
2. You are free to download and share the pieces; however, please contact me if you are going to post them to your website.
3. I will continue to submit the unpublished stories to magazines and will remove them from my website at will. I also retain the right to ask anybody to remove my stories from their websites.
4. You cannot sell the stories in the current form or any changed form.
5. If you would like to engage with my works on an artistic level, please contact me to discuss terms.
1. I retain an exclusive right to publish these works. They are not in the public domain.
2. You are free to download and share the pieces; however, please contact me if you are going to post them to your website.
3. I will continue to submit the unpublished stories to magazines and will remove them from my website at will. I also retain the right to ask anybody to remove my stories from their websites.
4. You cannot sell the stories in the current form or any changed form.
5. If you would like to engage with my works on an artistic level, please contact me to discuss terms.
Featured Story
Archived Stories
A Cracked Head Narrative: A piece that deals with how a physical or mental crack can open up how a person's history can flow and be told. After a minor slip up on the street the narrator is taken down the pathway of a common street that has been infused with regular characters with a mystical air.
| A Cracked Head Narrative |
Escalating Adventures: A young girl, hip to her own step, finds herself in a decaying mall full of depressing images warped away by a unique voice and effort to cause an adventure where the old stories do not hold.
| Escalating Adventure |
Grossly Body: You would not want to breathe in his scent, but perhaps his song is worth a listen as a simple day is tracked. Simple put, he wakes up, goes to work, encounters a challenge, drinks it away, and passes out: it is that simple.
| Grossly Body |
Potholes: Do you dare go down the Kafka-hole into the den of twisting corridors and how easily it is to wash one's face in a pothole in the morning? If so, this story may be just for you.
| Potholes |
A Tricky Muse: Follow the muse as it treads down the trestle in order to reach the party and thoughts of new inventions while former triumphs want to exist in the present. A thousand year old creature might just find a challenge.
| A Tricky Muse |
The Aging Hipsters' Tragic Ballad: Two wonderful failures plunge into a raw and body passion that has the capacity to tear everything away. Look into the essence of bodies no longer of the sexy youth but are still drawn into the desire to grind and grit one's teeth against morality and mortality.
| The Aging Hipsters Tragic Ballad |
Guitar Diner: Emerge out of the shinning bullet bus into the glare of the prairie sunshine with two cultural tourists trying to fall in love. The landscape is scattered with the appropriate types and moments of utter epiphany as expectation confront reality.
| Guitar Diner |
Ode to the Douche Bag: Ode to Dubliners: There are unique voices and characters that emerge out of Joyce's Dubliners. In a weak imitation, this work attempts to paint a horrible sort in a poetic light.
| Ode to the Douche Bag; Ode to Dubliners |
The Talented Mme. Mine: Street performers are masters of constructing images of fantasy, but sometimes the performance is able to grow and become something more and push into reality as the barriers between reality and fiction start to break down.
| The Talented Mme. Mime |
