What a time to be alive. Four days after the election, Joe Biden is the projected winner and will become the 46th President of the United States. Trump and his supporters–politicians and otherwise–claim massive voter fraud without any strong evidence, and Trump’s campaign has filed lawsuits across the country to …
The Silence ChallengeA Short Story by LG Alfonso This was it. The Silence Challenge. Of all the homework assignments any teacher could give out, this was the one Paula Sayers had waited years for. “To understand the effects that silence had on the relationship between Daniel and his father,” Miss …
7/27/2020 Edit: Added link to FinImpact article discussing how to support LGBTQ-owned small businesses. Over the past few years, there were a few blog posts I’ve written that I’ve thought about deleting. Though sometimes it’s encouraging to see how far I’ve come as a writer since I started, there were …
I’ve talked about religion and my faith a couple of times on my blog, though it’s been a while. My last post on the subject was early 2018, and a lot has changed since then. The last ten years have been a whirlwind of struggle and doubt in the faith …
About a year ago, Marvel Studios released Avengers: Endgame, which would become the highest grossing film to date. In anticipation of this film’s release, many YouTube film critics made videos dissecting their favorite scenes in the MCU and what made them so effective. These videos (brought together by the phrase …
I have a complicated relationship with stories made specifically for girls and women. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Disney Princesses and romantic fairy tales when I was little, and at first I wasn’t ashamed of it. But then when most of the girls my age gravitated towards the tomboy …
Cinderella. A fairy tale passed through generations for centuries. Some ancient cultures have their own version of a rags to riches folktale, from Rhodopis to Ye Xian to Queen Esther. The story we know as Cinderella was published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. …
People tell you not to dwell on the past for too long, to learn from your mistakes and move forward. But I’ve found myself thinking about the past a lot lately. The summer after fourth grade where my brother and I each had a friend to spend a week at …
After three years of writing and rewriting, I’m pleased to announce the release of my first book, Mabutay’s Lyric. It’s the first part of a five book series called Tales of Anino, a YA portal fantasy series. The story centers around fifteen-year-old Chloe Shepherd as she leaves Earth …
It’s been a little over a year since white supremacist hate groups marched through the streets of Charlottesville, chanting slogans such as “Jews will not replace us,” “whose streets, our streets,” and “white lives matter.” This terrorist event led to one girl’s death and many others being injured. Since this …
