Tag: fiction

  • Denver Lit Crawl!

    Come listen to me at the Denver Lit Crawl! on Team Tethered By Letters this Friday, September 2nd! I’ll be reading the poetic portion of There You Feel Free while shaking nervously. Get more info: https://litcrawldenver2016.sched.org/speaker/nate_ragolia.1vicdrg0

  • NEW FICTION: Bag of Bones – A Children’s Story

    For this original short story in BONED, I played with the children’s story genre. I hope you like it. – n. BAG OF BONES: A CHILDREN’S STORY BY NATE RAGOLIA Photo by Jorge Jaramillo via Flickr. Creative Commons: Some rights reserved.   On Monday, the young boy exits the school bus in the afternoon. He bounds down…

  • NEW FICTION: An Old Fashioned Love Story

    Hello again! More new fiction for you. This is another entry in the BONED short story project. Enjoy! – Nate AN OLD FASHIONED LOVE STORY BY NATE RAGOLIA Source: Wikimedia Commons – https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Greenway,_State_Route_5_vicinity,_Charles_City_vicinity_(Charles_City_County,_Virginia).jpg   Grandma June stands on the back porch, picking at peeling white paint on the railing. Hearing the tired jingle of the kitchen…

  • NEW FICTION: Grand Finale

    Here’s another short story I wrote for BONED. Enjoy! GRAND FINALE BY NATE RAGOLIA Source: https://www.pexels.com/u/jarn/   “Are we really going to do this?” she asks, sitting on the edge of the bed. “Right now?” Standing before her, he loosens his tie and unbuttons his shirt, pacing. He gazes out the window as he passes it.…

  • NEW FICTION: The Purpose of a Fence

    Hello! Here’s another original short story from my BONED writing blog project.   THE PURPOSE OF A FENCE BY NATE RAGOLIA Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_Commons_Cemetery_Fence.JPG   “Do you ever wonder about the fence?” the grave digger asks his partner. The second grave digger, his name is Jones, sighs and shakes his head. “Why would I wonder about the…

  • NEW FICTION: Just One More

    Hey all, This is my first original short story for BONED, a diverse, dynamic blog project featuring writings with the common theme of skeletons.   JUST ONE MORE BY NATE RAGOLIA Photo by Adam  via Flickr. Creative Commons: Some rights reserved.   I hate days like this, Clyde thinks, grimacing against the damp, bitter wind that whips…