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ORIGINAL FICTION
My Sample Portfolio
Welcome to my writing portfolio. Here you’ll find a small sampling of my work. Enjoy!


The House
The trees still swayed, with the breeze making leaves swirl and dance to their familiar rhythm. The sweet smell of honeysuckle still clung to the air. Both the white picket fence and carefully painted red mailbox remained pillared in moist, sepia colored dirt. However there would be no mail delivery, and the usual chirping of small birds swooping among the branches of weathered sycamore trees was absent. The home sat atop a slightly elevated hillside with a roaming, grassy ya
Emerson Chontos


The Celebration
Danny would have preferred to have gone anywhere else, with anyone else. Alone in the back seat of the black Mercedes his father bought to be admired, he thought back to his earlier desperation to avoid this trip Every excuse made had been shot down, with sarcasm, of course Admittedly, claiming he needed to stay home to study was lame, considering his abysmal grades. Still, he would have chosen ten exams over his father’s sharp criticisms during the 2-hour drive – each way.
Emerson Chontos
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