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Writing
On this page you can find writing samples I completed in my internships and in my coursework at Michigan State University. These examples range from blog posts to creative writing samples.
You can also find some of my recent creative projects at Reedsy!
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Featured Blog Posts
Below is a blog post that I was asked to write for the college about my experiences as a student. This was a fun project because I got to use the skills that I acquired in all of my creative writing classes to create an interesting and thought provoking piece.
Other Featured Blogs:
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Kayla Wikaryasz’s Citizen’s Project
Short Story: "Thicker Than Water"
"It was beginning to be too much. Ophelia shook her leg and tried to breathe normally. But it was hopeless. She felt as if there was a cord tied between her and Anna now—one that was built with sinew and gore from the distant first mother that had born their ancestors into that world. The cord swung between them like a pendulum, snapping up and down and to the sides, dripping with the blood that linked them together.
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Blood, which Ophelia would use to rewrite their fates and summon some deity to reverse the nature of those things. It was the same blood that had poisoned Ophelia these past few months. It was the same blood that read Tennyson under a Hello-Kitty blanket and with a camping lantern. It was the same blood that painted cattails and wanted to go to Boston for art school. It ran through her veins like a flooded river."
Short Story: "A Black, Fresh Water Sea"
"It is a lake that preserves its shipwrecks like none other. A lake that never gives up her dead. A lake called Gitche Gumee, where the Edmund Fizgerald sank back in ‘75. Gitche Gumee has a song written about it, which every bar north of Big Rapids plays on November tenth. Retired sailors give quarters to put towards the jukebox and stare off into space as the opening cords rattle the speakers and the Lightfoot’s echoing vocals transport them to an underwater graveyard."
Short Story: "Buffalo Plaid, Sapphic Goddess"
"My friend called it, Your buffalo plaid flannel. I just called it a flannel because buffalo plaid meant nothing, but now, it seems to mean more than I even realize. It was a Saint John's Bay brand, and it was only fourteen dollars. It was warm, thick (but not too thick), and it had deep front pockets where I could shove my phone into. The seams at the shoulders bulged a bit, and I could tell that the front buttons were not tailored to stretch across B-cup breasts—probably because I found it in the men’s section at JCPenney. That flannel, whenever I put it on, felt as if two arms were being hugged around my middle ribs. The soft fabric that stretched across my sixteen-inch shoulder span felt as if it were a warm breath caressing the nape of my neck."
Short Story: "Middle Child Syndrome"
"My sister was an unanticipated teenage pregnancy that resulted from an ill-fated and fleeting high-school fling. I was a medical mystery, only discovered six-months into my gestation period, after my mother was told that she was barren. My brother was the product of the reversal of a phantom pregnancy which echoed the plot line of the later TLC reality show, “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant.”