What comes first?

April kicks off two separate short story writing competitions for me. So, I started going through my folder of ideas and characters and it struck me the varied ways stories come. It made me wonder. Which comes first for you, as an author? The story idea? Or the Characters? For me, it has come both …

Family – Broken pieces

We all have issues within the makeup of our families that don't always play out the way we'd like. This seems especially true with adult children and spouses. But, in the story I'm writing, my character, at the age of twenty-six, discovers the man who raised him and whom he believed to be his father, …