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.
![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 ...
Prying loose thoughts that just don't want to come, finding excuses and distractions along the way, hoping against ...
After I finished today’s entry I was greeted by the following pop-up:
2025-07-24 500 Days Journal ...
![The Kid and The Lime Green Buddha Named Bart [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pexels-photo-11356284.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
A little nine-year old boy was found in his suburban home, apparently abandoned by his parents, who themselves ...
![Three AM at The Beach, Remembering the First Love That Wasn’t [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pexels-photo-7181902.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
This is an intimate place. I wish that I would have come here before. Had I known about it, I'm sure I would have. ...
So the following notice showed up in my email earlier in the week:
That’s weird. I haven’t posted to that ...
Some things are better left to imagination. A chance encounter, a sly smile, a brief scent of perfume, why ruin ...
![Fall Out From Unexpected Handholding in Aerobics Class [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/pexels-photo-32627101.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
It was my ex’s idea that we join a gym. It’s not my fault that I lost all the weight and really got into the whole ...
WARNING: This is a bit geeky & not a happy topic.
This has been on my mind for sometime. It happened when ...
![Fate & Saturdays Working with Dad [Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/25741-Cervantes-MV-2.png?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
No matter what I did, I never seemed to be able to escape my fate. As soon as I finished breakfast I’d hear, ...
It’s time. Beginning June 9th I’ve decided to post one short story every week on Mondays. I have a larger format ...
Human sexuality, much less gender identification, is a lot for a teenager to deal with. Growing up a child of the ...
![Questions At the Edge of a Stream of Lights [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/pexels-photo-9548515.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
Her apartment complex sits just beyond the edge of the river of lights. Just beyond the incessant procession of ...
![The Traveler & His Accidental Life [A Short Story]](https://i0.wp.com/josephbrucebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/pexels-photo-356040.jpeg?resize=400%2C284&ssl=1)
All of this happened because she looked at him and he noticed. Normally it was so noisy and busy on the factory ...
Yesterday, 2025-05-13, was my 600th day writing in my personal journal. Some time ago I decided that I needed to ...
I got up this morning, wrote a couple paragraphs into my dream journal and was greeted with this ...
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