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My Fiction Project 2011

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Amy K. Nichols • Leave a comment

A couple of months ago, I participated in Art House Co-op’s Fiction Project 2011. It’s an art/story project where they send you a notebook, you fill it with stories and art, and they send it on tour and house it in their gallery/library. Art House is currently updating their website, so the fiction books aren’t … Continue reading »

Excerpts/Stories

Chasing Rabbits

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Amy K. Nichols • 1 Comment

(I’ve pulled this story in order to spiffy it up and submit it to literary journals. I’ll let you know when and where it gets published.) Continue reading »

Creativity / Excerpts/Stories

The Cat

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Amy K. Nichols • 8 Comments

My daughter and I recently finished writing a story together. We took turns, each writing a line and then waiting for the other to find it and respond (much like Clementine and her father). When my daughter wrote the last line, she added a title and a dedication. Here is the story. We hope you … Continue reading »

Excerpts/Stories

Sleep Eater

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Amy K. Nichols • 4 Comments

A late-night and somewhat silly entry for today’s 500 Club over at The Parking Lot Confessional. I chose the second prompt (“If I could just get her to say it, this would all go away”), modifying it slightly. I used the Write or Die 2.0 software to crank out 500 words in 20 minutes and … Continue reading »

Excerpts/Stories

Shine

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Amy K. Nichols • 3 Comments

Dara never liked the color red. But red — in this case “Big Apple Red” — grabs attention. That’s why guys drive red sports cars, right? For the attention. Continue reading »

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Amy K. Nichols is an author and artist living in the wilds of suburban Phoenix. This blog is where she explores creativity, life and the myriad things that make her geeky heart go pitter-pat.

Amy is represented by Quinlan Lee of Adams Literary. Her debut novel Now That You're Here, a YA science fiction thriller, will be published by Knopf in fall, 2014.

To read samples of her work, please visit www.amywrites.com.
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