“Monsters in the Woods” is now available to read! Since Metaphor doesn’t have a website for their published work you can read it here. Originally, “Monsters in the Woods” was a nonfiction story based on my childhood. This was one of those stories that I struggled to find inspiration for, then it came in a single burst–the first draft anyway. After some mentoring by one of my English professors, I decided to add “the man’s” perspective and upped the tension in the story. Eventually I decided that this story no longer fit into the nonfiction genre, but it’s pretty close. This is also the story that I had the chance to read at the National Undergraduate Literary Conference hosted in Ogden, Utah.  I actually liked reading out loud a lot more than I expected. If I ever had to give advice on how to best prepare for a reading, itRead More