Jerrica has A Way with Words
Fiction
This page lays out each piece with a quick description. There is also a scrollable page of all pieces in full for your convenience.
Short Story - Published June 2025
This is a small snippet of my first published short story, Flames to Remember. The full version can be found as part of By the Fire Anthology: Shattered Reflection (set to publish in June 2025) along with 20 other awesome short stories from our time at Algonquin in the Professional Writing Program.
The piece was created on a prompt which provided the first and last sentence. It was a fun challenge to make two sentences line up when, at first, they have very little to do with each other.
Scene - December 2024
This scene was an exercise in using someone else’s world bible. The world was created by Iris Tsui, but the scene was created by me. The world is set in a future where parents are assigned babies rather than having them the old fashioned way. This scene explores what the moment of receiving a baby from the company might look like.
Poem (modified glosa) - December 2024
The following is a poem written as a modified glosa. The original structure of a glosa poem is to take four lines from an existing poem and use them as the final line of four stanzas each with ten lines in similar length to those from the original work. This poem instead, uses eight lines from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” as the first line on each stanza and vaguely follows the same rhyming scheme as the original poem.
Poem (Visual) - November 2024
This poem was part of a project where each piece was inspired by an Inktober 2024 Prompt. This one used #26 Camera. I set myself an extra challenge to attempt different poetry structures, and for this one I chose a visual format. Camera immediately led me to polaroid pictures and capturing important moments in life, but also the idea that a picture is only a moment, and sometimes there's a lot hidden and incongruent with what you see.
The first iteration was quick and simple; I have plans to update it with traditionally made art.
Poem - November 2024
This poem was part of a project where each piece was inspired by an Inktober 2024 Prompt. This one used #19 Ridge. Unlike most of the others this poem was a free-form structure. The prompt ridge gave me the feeling of being precariously balanced, and I wrote with the idea of life itself being a balancing act.
Poem (Limerick) - November 2024
This poem was part of a project where each piece was inspired by an Inktober 2024 Prompt. This one used #23 Rust. I set myself an extra challenge to attempt different poetry structures, and for this one I chose Limerick. I actually remember writing a limerick back in elementary school, so this wasn’t my first attempt but my first in a very long time. The first two things that came to mind with rust as a prompt were the tin man and the rhyme lust, so I simply went with it. The silliness of using them together played very well with the humour of limericks. Also, there is clear, yet unintentional, inspiration from “Hey Diddle, Diddle.”
Poem (Villanelle) - November 2024
This poem was part of a project where each piece was inspired by an Inktober 2024 Prompt. This one used #2 Discover. I set myself an extra challenge to attempt different poetry structures. It was my first attempt at a Villanelle structure which is quite structured. Nineteen lines are split into five tercets and one quatrain and the rhyming pattern is ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA. And if that weren't enough structure for you… line one repeats on lines six, 12 and 18 while line three will repeat on lines nine, 15 and 19. It was a great challenge to create this poem; near rhymes were very helpful!
Poem (Taboo Card Inspired) - March 2024
This piece was created by a Taboo Card prompt. For those that have never played, Taboo is a guessing game where the card holder tries to get their team to guess the word, but there are words they cannot say. See if you can guess without peeking!
