Four Seasons…April
Laney buzzed around her bedroom in the back of her parents house, like an insect trapped between window and shade. She stepped across a carpet of long ignored debris, trying to determine what she hated more – the eighteen year old brats she taught at the City College on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or the [...]
Four Seasons…March
(FYI – this story has a couple of naughty words.) Libby wasn’t used to feeling so anxious. The sensation bubbled beneath her skin like a still sizzling burn. Libby was normally lucky, though not with the usual off the shelf fluke or fortune. Libby was the luckiest person that she, or anybody who knew her, [...]
We Interrupt This Broadcast For a Special Announcement
My apologies for breaking the flow of Four Seasons. Your emails have been extremely kind and I’m glad you are enjoying the first couple of stories. I’m curious to hear what you think as the narrative grows a bit more complicated and I quite obviously try to bite off more than I can chew. Tomorrow’s [...]
Four Seasons…February
The alarm clock screamed at the same time it did every morning, but John did not pull covers over his head to smother the following fifteen minutes as he would have any other day. He leapt from bed, went to the bathroom, turned on the faucets in the sink and bathtub, and stared at his [...]
Four Seasons…January
Brian flew through the third red light as if it had point value, clearing the empty intersection somewhere between the speed limit and death on impact. “I’ve gotta stop doing that,” he thought, shaking his head. “There’s three of us now.” Brian was pressing his luck — something he did almost as often sleeping. Maya [...]
I Finished a Manuscript, Wanna Help?
Slightly less than a year ago I started 4 Seasons, a collection of 12 stories, each taking place in a different month of the year, with slightly overlapping narratives. An hour ago I finished the final one. Taken as a whole, the manuscript now rests at about 40,000 words, or the length of a nice [...]
The Death Star is No More
Do you remember when you were five years old? If there was a video game version of Star Wars what did it look like? This is what mine looked like: This is what my son’s looks like: The game itself is older than him by three years, but still looks good enough to actually make [...]
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Hi, I'm Sean Platt - author, father, and Creative Director at Rev Media Marketing. Writer Dad is my life as it unfolds. This chapter of my journey began two years back when I took a chance on myself by closing a successful business to pursue my dream of writing for a living. It was the craziest, riskiest and most wonderful thing I've ever done. Well, except for becoming a dad.
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