Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think. – Molière
If you would like to see a chronological list of all Deidra’s short stories please find them HERE.
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All the Knowledge No One Needs
What happens when you share your writing for the very first time?
Bad High School Teacher
What happens when you burn out?
Bulldozer & Pushover
What happens when you overindulge your child?
But Wait – There’s more
What happens when you have a narcissist in your life?
Can’t Get Enough of What You Don’t Need
What happens when your kid goes off to college?
Death By Sharpie
What do you do when there are no good options?
Down to One
What happen when you don’t believe in God?
Few and Far Between
What happens when you are taking care of elderly parents and adult children?
Florida Man
What happens when you’ve become Florida Man?
Forth Majeure
What happens when you are a charming old narcissist?
Goddess of Chaos
What happens when you are exceptionally bored?
Golden Repair
What happens when you try marriage counseling?
Growing Sideways
What happens when your kid loses his retainer?
Hack
What happens when you try to write?
Honestly
What happens when you go out to dinner?
How To Slash A Tire
What happens when you attend a slumber party in the 1970’s?
Immaculate Reception
What happens when you fall in love at 50?
In Search Of
What happen when you look for a restaurant in NYC?
Innocence Lost
What happens when you fall in love with a priest?
Irrumator Praetor Matrem Suam
What happens when you find your mother kissing your fiancé?
Jax Buys A Ticket
What happens when you attend a self-empowerment conference?
Jax Gets Vaccinated
What happens when you are afraid to get the jab?
Jax Makes Amends
What happens when you hurt your best friend’s feelings?
Jax Teaches 8th Grade
What happens when you try substitute teaching?
Jax Throws Jazz Hands
What happens when you meet your best friend’s mother?
Kaleidoscope
What happens when you need to see grief more clearly?
Kerfuffle in Yazoo County
What happens when you believe love conquers all?
Kiko’s Humble Duty
What happens when your brothel tries a full-service android?
Lawn Darts
What happens when you outgrow the things that make sense?
LibraryWork
What happens when the library becomes your best friend?
Like a Baseball Bat to the Face
What happens when you need a ride?
Love and Flowcharts
What happens when Cupid calculates your love sign?
Love in the Time of Apocalypse
What happens when you make a bet with another writer on how many phallic references you can shove into one story?
Love in the Time of Apocalypse V2
What happens when you make a great story better?
Mac
What happens when you try to impress a boy?
Madness Among the Flowers
What happens when you need to deal with toxic masculinity?
Male #18
What happens when you try speed dating?
Marked for Failure
What happens when you are stuck in Reno?
Missy’s Midlife Misdirection
What happens when you decide to attend your high school reunion?
Moved On
What happens when you open the door?
No Class Room
What happens when the principal asks you for a “favor”?
No One Really Explains
What happens when no one really explains, well, anything?
No Thank Hugh
What happens when you really crave a hot dog?
[Ok.]
What happens when you fall in love on a dating app?
Pass the Potatoes on the Left-hand Side
What happens when you go home for Thanksgiving?
Perilous Times Shall Come
What happens when the trout lines are empty?
Riddle of the Sphinx
What happens after you figure it all out?
Seven Greek Gods Walk Into A Bar
What happens when you want some potato skins?
Short Delay in Service
What happens when you make a bet with another writer over how many scatological references you can cram into one story?
Sol’s Sunshine
What happens when you punch a boy at school?
Take-A-Number
What happens when you are truly awful people?
Take the Cannoli
What happens when you clean up after a funeral?
Takeout & Delivery
What happens when your Uber driver needs to make a stop?
Tatterdemalion
What happens when you decide to enter the priesthood?
Texting After a Funeral
What happens when a picture is worth a thousand words?
The Abyss Gazes Back
What happens when you wonder who you really are?
The Almost Last Supper
What happens at dinner parties in the English countryside?
The Auctioneer
What happens when your country girl has a dream?
The Bibliophagist’s Magic Shop
What happens when there’s a new shop in town?
The Dewey Decimal System
What happens when you spend too much time in libraries?
The Fifth Wave
What would happen if COVID was a 18th-century dandy?
The First Thing We Do
What happens when you can’t land a job?
The Gods in the Stars
What happens when you jump off a cruise ship?
The Good Soil
What happens when your altered reality meets the real one?
The King of Carrion
What happens when you love the wrong person?
The Less Things Change
What happens when you can’t get out of bed?
The Making of Chocolate
What happen when your father believes in you?
The More Things Change
What happens when you can’t get your shit together?
The Physics Professor and the Latte
What happens when you can’t calculate falling in love?
The Play’s the Thing
What happens when KFC funds community theater?
The Reaper of Hearts
What happens when love is a finite commodity?
The 2nd Floor of the Circuit Court Building
What happens when you try to warn your sibling?
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On
What happens when you overanalyze everything?
Tetherball
What happens at summer camp?
The Last Time I Was Beautiful
What happens when you can’t remember?
The Teacher’s Dilemma
What happens to the starfish?
The Temperate Wyvern
What happens when dragons get all the press?
The 10th Circle of Hell
What happens when Hell needs expanding in the 21st century?
The Ties That Bind
What happens when sibling rivalry ends?
To Abstain Courteously
What happens when you date boys from New Jersey?
To One Not Sociable
What happens when Ophelia reflects upon her life?
Tom Mosely Falls in Love
What happens when you are a romantic cynic?
Unfinished Business
What happens when a Jewish baker and an Irish pastry chef compete?
Void > Water > Air > Fire > Earth
What happens when the elements conspire against you?
Waiting for Samuel Beckett
What would happen if Vladimir and Estragon were college roommates?
Witch Hunter’s Grandson
What happens when the Age of Enlightenment steps in?
What You Can Do With Your Book
What happens when people give you a gift bag?
Yogattabekiddingme
What happens when you do a friend a favor?