Novel

Detective Kali
I began the story after meeting a who stated that I look like a character that they thought they had made up. Eventually, I was approached with the idea for writing it, and I was so excited because I wanted to make sure that I approached my writing with a very diverse that reflected the world that I grew up in my personal experiences or things that I just simply witnessed.
By Cadma4 months ago in Critique
Reena - the unborn story of the lesbian vampire warrior princess. Winner in Not Quite There Yet Challenge.
"Reena, the vampire warrior princess, was standing on the marble balcony bathing in the moonlight, silvery and shimmery. Her red hair flowing in the wind behind her. Warm blood dripping off her long fingers onto the ivory stones."
By Imola Tóth4 months ago in Critique
The Dream Dasher/The Writer's Commandments
I started writing this novel the weekend after my 20th Birthday. My twin had passed away 3 months earlier, and I had laughed for the first time since the day before, when Mum, on the phone to a family friend who had a history of accidentally spilling secrets, accidentally blurted out the destination of my birthday trip.
By Natasja Rose5 months ago in Critique
Edisto
The late morning sun was heavenly down on the beach in the light September breeze. Mary Elizabeth stretched and smiled at her children building a sandcastle together before picking up her phone to check her messages to see if anyone else was coming out this week. She got bored sometimes without her girlfriends, didn’t enjoy happy hour quite as much when she was the only adult in the house.
By Harper Lewis 5 months ago in Critique
Masie Adams. Content Warning.
I never wanted to come back to Garden City. Everyone here hates me because I won't play by their stupid rules. As luck would have it, when I went to the Pig to pick up some essentials, I had the misfortune of picking the same shopping day as Betty Blanchard Johnson. You'd think being a Blanchard was an accomplishment, that it requires a special skill set to be a Blanchard even though there's more Blanchards in these parts than there are Pinckneys in Charleston.
By Harper Lewis 5 months ago in Critique
Sunday Dinner
There had been a christening at St. Mary’s that morning, and Susan and her cousin were going on and on about babies. Blair said she would name her daughters Ellen and Beverly, and her first son would carry his father’s name with a Roman numeral following.
By Harper Lewis 5 months ago in Critique
Blackwood
The story is called Blackwood. It begins with a high school English teacher named Evelyn Carter learning that her biological father… whom she never knew existed, has died and left her everything.
By Amber5 months ago in Critique
Authorship vs Refinement
Much of the confusion surrounding artificial intelligence and writing comes from a failure to distinguish between two fundamentally different acts: originating ideas and refining their expression. These acts are often treated as interchangeable, as though whoever touches the final form must also be the source of the thought itself. That assumption does not reflect how writing has ever worked, nor does it reflect how human thinking actually unfolds.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique
Expression vs Distortion
One of the most persistent frustrations in communication is the gap between what a person intends to say and what others actually receive. This gap exists regardless of intelligence, sincerity, conviction, or depth of understanding. Someone can hold an idea with clarity internally, yet watch it arrive distorted, flattened, reduced, or misinterpreted once it is expressed. The failure is often blamed on the idea itself, when the deeper issue is frequently translation.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique
Productivity as Preservation
Productivity is often framed as the visible accumulation of outcomes. Words written, posts published, episodes released, metrics improved, engagement gained, and projects completed become the evidence that work has happened. Under this framing, anything that does not immediately result in external output is treated as inefficiency, distraction, avoidance, or delay. The productive person is assumed to be the person who can show visible results.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique
Output vs Oversaturation
The Fear of Adding to the Noise The modern anxiety around oversaturation is not unfounded. People are surrounded by more words, videos, opinions, explanations, reactions, and interpretations than they can meaningfully absorb. In that environment, producing more content can feel irresponsible or self-defeating, as though adding anything further only contributes to the noise. This concern often causes thoughtful people to hesitate. They hold back ideas, not because the ideas lack value, but because they fear that volume itself will devalue what they have to say.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique
Created Risk, Inherited Risk, and the Moral Line We Keep Erasing (A Society That Tells the Truth: Chapter 3)
The Distinction Modern Rules Refuse to Make One of the quiet failures of modern rule making is the refusal to clearly distinguish between risk created by choice and risk inherited by existence. When this distinction collapses, responsibility becomes confused, guilt spreads outward indiscriminately, and ordinary behavior is treated as morally suspect. This is not a minor philosophical oversight. It is the foundation beneath many of the injustices people now experience in public life, from transportation and health policy to everyday regulation and enforcement. When systems fail to differentiate between what someone causes and what simply exists, moral clarity erodes at every level.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique