Laura Smith Writer

Category: Fiction

  • Choose Me

    The following short story could possibly used for as the beginning of a longer piece. I wrote it during my graduate program at SNHU and have no idea where to go from here. I put my head down onto the smooth surface of our kitchen table. It was cool on my forehead, although I felt…

  • Liam

    Liam

    Liam. I say his name over and over. Liam, Liam, Liam. Liam is five years old. He and his dad were returning from preschool on January 20, when his father was abducted by ICE. They brought him to his door, as his mother watched from inside. They used him as bait. His mother, who stayed…

  • Dandelions

    Dandelions

    Fiction Introduction: I teach an elective Dystopian Literature class for seniors at the high school level. One of the assignments was to take a current event or issue and create a doom and gloom timeline, imagining that issue through a serious of steps towards a dystopian world. Students would complete the timeline and then write…