Category: writing projects
This is where I’ve posted my more “creative writing,” that can take the form of short stories and satire and musings about my writing projects and writing process. This is where I plan to post my longer form (book) projects.
I just got my bill for the year’s WordPress blog hosting. This happens every time. You’d think I’d be impervious ...
![The Chaos & Fog of Glendington [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pexels-photo-35317730.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
The day began with the kind of thick grey fog that made walking dangerous, but it was his routine, even on ...
![Meditations On: Can We Preserve Knowledge… forever? [TED Radio Hour]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Can-We-Preserve-Knowledge.-forever_TED-Radio-Hour.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
I just finished re-editing/re-copying journals that I wrote from 1985 to 1996. I started this project because I ...
Last Monday I reached 700 Days of Journal Writing, but for whatever reason I forgot to make note of that ...
Some days I have to skip my usual news podcasts. I have digital subscriptions to two national newspapers and one ...
![Two Old Rugs Survive Their Trip Outside [a short story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/baseball-on-rug.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
baseball bat on rug
I woke up thinking about an old rug, it kind of looks like it’s being hung up to be ...
This 2013 documentary popped up in my feeds and I find that there’s something quaint about the optimism expressed ...
![Dee, Friendships & The Delayed Departure/Dismissal [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/pexels-photo-9887430.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
Friendships seemed simpler in the past. In the third grade I noticed this blonde kid on the bus ride home who was ...
![Running Around In The Park [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/pexels-photo-8083430.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
They do so much with so little. A little girl, her shoes in one hand and purple plastic bowling pin in the other, ...
While the idea of “race” can be understood as a human invention, the need to be able to identify individuals and ...
![Older Fellow Attempts Modern Dating [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2001-03-27-Sunset-at-Santa-Monica.jpg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
He couldn’t remember the last time he found himself taking a leisurely evening stroll on Ocean Front in Newport. ...
![Didn’t Know To Not Expose the Container to De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/pexels-photo-15509863.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
The original records were lost or at least never found about how the university ended up with a small glass ...
![The Last Runner, The Crowd and Caught Being Human [a Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2007-12-15-6th-grader-boys-880-race-19.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
One of the under-appreciated duties as the teacher of the yearbook class was covering Saturday morning track ...
A “Bread” music-only playlist popped up in my YouTube feeds and it was a very welcomed break from all of the ...
![There’s a Whole in My Life [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Not-Full-By-Choice-no-attribution.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
10:51 PM. Just a note or two before I drift off to sleep. I wish there was some meaningful way of summing up the ...
![Three Rectangular Tiles in the Park [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/pexels-photo-286263.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
Three ceramic rectangular tiles were laying in a suburban public park in a spot about halfway from the street to ...
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