Short Story

Someone doing pushups against a Silver back ground. The words Goals by Jarrett S. Smith on the top left and the JSwordSmith logo on the bottom right.

#Goals – A Quick Short Story

I made it a challenge to write a short story, under a thousand words, with the prompt Goals, for the new year. While I struggled to finish it in my deadline timeframe, here it is. #Goals by Jarrett S. Smith His arms burned, but he couldn’t stop. Not this close to his goal.  His palm

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Haunted House with the words Short Story Prompt for halloween

Fun and Spooky Short Story Prompt: Halloween Haunted House Story

In the spirit of Halloween and trying to get more traffic to the site, I have decided to host a Halloween Short Story Prompt! I will post the prompt on Tuesday and try to write on the prompt myself to post on Friday if you’re interested. I encourage you to write along with me. Once

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Letty Rose and the Mistaken Identity: Chapter 2

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Letty Rose and the Mistaken Identity: Chapter 1

The Stakeout The roof felt more sterile and work-like than she hoped. Each second she stayed there felt like an hour. Letty’s expectations about the stakeout on top of the building felt more exciting than reality. When she had found herself on a roof before, she had been in the throes of passion and a

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Helix

It’s been a second or two since I’ve had the chance to work on anymore horror short stories. Between the Apple Event and planning for NaNoWriMo I haven’t been able to actually write and edit. So I did want anyone would do, I asked someone else. Here is: Helix By Deena Edwards “You take right,

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Empty Hospital Bed

Assisted Psychopaths – A Short Horror Story

Assisted Psychopaths  By Jarrett S. Smith -Are you there, Michael? -I am. Who are you? -I am your conscious. -I don’t have one of those. -I know. I have been developed to help you learn about your conscience. -But I don’t have one. -You do now. Dr. Ben Grant had spent the better part of

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Coming this month

Thank you all that have already stopped by and shared the site up to this point.   I never really intended for this site to be an Apple only focused site, but right now, that’s what’s bringing in the page views.  I love writing about Apple, but I hope to fill in the cracks with

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How I Write – Part 6

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How I Write – Part 5 – Writing

As if all the other things I’ve done haven’t been daunting enough, this is the most daunting yet. Looking at a blank page can be scary.  Hopefully, by this point in the writing process, I’m pretty excited in my story and I’m ready to go, but sometimes I might be overwhelmed by how I’m going

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