Articles written by Matt Mcmillan

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Parenting: 10 of 39

And there you were. Just a bundled up little man. And before I knew it you had developed a personality, an identity, a smile all your own. Oh, what a smile. You had a smile that could warm my very soul on the coldest of days. I have had some cold days, Seamus. I have created some of the coldest days a man can create for hims...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Childhood memories: 34 of 111

And here I thought all along that we were normal kids living a normal childhood in a normal town. I mean it wasn't abnormal. Abnormal is a goiter growing out of your Uncle Horace's neck, or the fact that your great-Aunt Petunia wore a wig, or that your grandma used to pop out her dentures at you. Abnormal was Clifford the st...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Having a bad day: 27 of 63

"Jen, wait, this is stupid," I said. "Come on, Becca, nothing's going to happen." Next thing I knew we were in mom's car, leaving the Dixon Mall, now driving through the residential neighborhoods of Dixon. I had walked out of the main entrance of the mall just as Jen pulled up in our mom's minivan. Jen was always like this, ...