Category: Other fiction

• Unfinished, continued

  Here is a continuation of that snippet of a fantasy romance story that I posted in “Unfinished.” Perhaps I’ll write more of this tale, after all… The Ties That Bind … continues Warner was a bear of a man with shaggy brown hair and, incongruously, a short, neatly trimmed beard and mustache. His brown eyes…

  A.R. Grimes

  July 31, 2020

  Excerpts, Other fiction

  fantasy romance, writing

• Unfinished

  Here is the beginning snippet of a fantasy romance novel I began crafting over a decade ago. There isn’t much to follow this little introduction, but I did work out an outline of the plot and the premise behind it – which naturally involves a forbidden relationship. I haven’t decided yet whether this story takes…

  A.R. Grimes

  May 24, 2020

  Excerpts, Other fiction

  fantasy romance, writing

• A Sad Story from my Salad Days

  I am convinced that nearly everything extracurricular that I wrote in college was either macabre or maudlin. What follows is a little something that I whipped up in less than 24 hours during my sophomore year. At the time, my intention was to explore writing from the perspective of someone trying to emerge from the…

  A.R. Grimes

  August 17, 2019

  Other fiction

  college, fiction, grief, literary magazine, nostalgia, prose, sad stories, salad days, short story, writing