Stephen Kramer Avitabile
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I'm a creative writer in the way that I write. I hold the pen in this unique and creative way you've never seen. The content which I write... well, it's still to be determined if that's any good.
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Meet The Last Superstar Running Back
I'm really excited for a couple reasons! The YouTube channel that I write for, The Gridiron, has just released a new video on Christian McCaffrey. I think it's a fantastic video and coming just in time for the start of the NFL season.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile2 years ago in Writers
Nose Soap
This story was originally published on Medium. ************** The hot water was spraying onto Avery’s back from the showerhead. He stood completely still, just waiting. This was weird. This was so awkward. He stared at the bottles of body wash that lined the edge of the tub. All so foreign. All these fancy bottles, all these different colored labels. Where was Avery’s tried and true blue body wash?
By Stephen Kramer AvitabileExclusive • 2 years ago
Quiet Sneezer. Top Story - September 2024.
This story was originally published on Medium. ************** She sneezed one of those sneezes that was so quiet and high-pitched, you almost couldn’t hear it. Probably a sneeze that would’ve alerted all dog ears within a one mile radius. It made her sound like a cartoon. Hell, it even made her look like a cartoon. She already had some slightly cartoonish features… brought more to light after her mouse-like sneeze. There wasn’t even a wind up. No “ah.” Just “choo.” All lowercase. Tiny “choo.”
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile2 years ago in Fiction
Aerosol Weapons
This story was originally published on Medium. ************** Everyone is spraying their canisters of hair spray, spray on sunscreen, spray paint at the aliens as hours ago it became fairly common knowledge that the aerosol is somehow killing the aliens. No one knows why exactly… they just know that it is the case.
By Stephen Kramer AvitabileExclusive • 2 years ago
Starving Artist Stops Abusing Food. Top Story - August 2024.
I often see those success stories of people with humble and/or difficult beginnings finally breaking into the entertainment industry as a writer or actor. He was living out of his car before he made it. Wow, my car looks like someone lives in it, but that's it. Her parents abandoned her and she bounced from foster home to foster home before achieving success. Wow, I have great and supportive parents. Bummer. He worked at a grocery store during the day and pulled overnight shifts as a janitor for years before he was discovered. Wow! I deal with shit at work, but not literal shit! I’ve looked at my own life. My parents didn’t abandon me, I hadn’t gone through financial hardships that cost me a home… I don’t have this incredible story of rags to riches. I’m just over here… living. So, am I going to be able to make it as a writer without the story? It’s as if I need the tough beginnings in order to make it, and I didn’t have those. However, I may finally have someone to thank. My job. My job may have given me just what I needed.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile2 years ago in Humor
Trimming My Story: The f*ck is Up ahead
You might be wondering what trimming my story and the significance of ‘the fuck is Up ahead’ have to do with one another. And what is the fuck? Why is it up ahead? Are people moving towards the fuck, seeing as how it is up ahead? Let me explain the context of this and detail what it all means, including the strange capitalization which no, is not an error.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile2 years ago in Writers
June 30th, 2023 - June 30th, 2024
June 30th, 2024 marks one year since my first short story was published somewhere. I still remember how excited I was to learn of the news. It had been almost two years since I had seriously begun writing short stories and prose again, and it had been many years of writing in general, mainly scripts, without achieving something like this. Getting a piece of my work accepted and published somewhere for everyone to read. And then a year of more successes ensued. I wanted to celebrate my special little one-year anniversary, but also all that’s happened in that span of time. Because I feel it’s really helped me grow as a writer too.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile2 years ago in Writers
Station 4 is Compromised
This story was originally published on Medium. ************** The sounds of the space station exploding are distant, but not as distant as they were 20 seconds ago. Tyquan flings the bay door open. Inside, just three more of his colleagues. Red shirts.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile2 years ago in Fiction
The Intersection of Past and Upcoming. Top Story - May 2024.
This story was originally published on Medium. ************** A bellow, a shriek, a roar… one by one… emanated in the distance, but closed in. Not one single hair on one single neck in the valley wasn’t standing at attention.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile2 years ago in Fiction
NYC Midnight and My Positive Spins
So many contests out there have such similar rules and themes and layouts, that when I read the rules for the NYC Midnight competition, I was intrigued with how different it was. Now, I love all contests, and I enter into a lot of them. But NYC Midnight caught my eye in a different kind of way.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile2 years ago in Writers
