Here is a categorical list of all creative pieces posted on Valerie Writes (2013–2019).
Creative Non-fiction + Collections
- A brief encounter with, wait, was that Jimmy Fallon?
- A town closes
- An egg farmer tells me a story
- Breaking Up
- Celaire’s Crush | Celaire’s Crush, NYC
- Karma: What goes around, comes around
- Keep it to yourself
- Looking, Up and Down
- Lost. And Found.
- My Life in Documents
- Schooled
- Sideways
- Thank you Ms. Vanderbilt
- The value of travelling abroad
- Why didn’t I just tell him to f*ck off?
- Why, rebellion?
- Wish
Family Connections
Nothing
- Nothing is the same
- Nothing. An introduction.
- Nothing (i)
- Nothing (ii)
- Nothing (iii)
- Nothing (iv)
- Nothing (v)
- Nothing (vi)
- Nothing (vii)
- Nothing (viii)
- Nothing (ix)
Valerie’s Closet
- My Travelling Pants
- New shoes, old feet
Fiction Pieces + Collections
- A Tattle Tale
- Blue
- Carl’s Hands
- Dead Zone
- Elbow room
- Moon
- odds
- Online Dating
- Opening Scene
- Passage: Empty Lifelines
- Return to Sender
- Zoom by Trey Adamson
Compulsion
- assailable
- Bloodline
- Dear Life
- Henry Died, and Lenore Was Not Angry
- Pay Day
- profile
- Stay
- Wait for Me
Sidetracked: Unpleasant Byroads
- 08-26-13
- A heart filled with life
- A-side | B-side
- accidental attention
- Aspiration
- Barfly
- before
- betrayal
- burning morning
- Close call
- easy
- Fire
- heartbreak
- in search of
- Larus argentatus
- Leaving
- Malcontent
- mayday
- one thing
- ordinary
- Recognizance: A Fictional Story
- red tape
- Running with scissors
- sidetracked
- some sort of life
- something comfortable
- summer job
- The Inconvenience of Turning 49
- Waiting
The Start of Something
- birth
- easiest relationships
- childhood
- chill
- communication
- extra stuff
- flowers
- fractured
- hunched
- ink
- kissing
- late
- life story
- lost
- playwright
- punishment
- suspicious minds
- The Start of Something
- watch
- what has passed
Non-fiction
- A Vacation from My Family (re-post)
- Bad Language in the Workplace (re-post)
- Goodbye, Gord
- Harassed at Work
- Keeping the pedestrian traffic flowing
- Office attire for under 30 crowd
- Re: Identity Crisis by Tanya Talaga
- Skilled trades (re)gain popularity
- The Reason is Academic: The Making of a High School Drop-out
- Two weeks’ notice
- What you say says something about you
- Whose stuff is it anyway?
I Love Having Written
- An example
- Are you a writer?
- Endgame
- Self-publishing: Letting Go (reprint)
- Stop Blaming Your Day Job
- What do you know?
- When will a late bloomer’s career blossom?
Opinion-esque
- Bad Religion
- Bill C-38
- Driver’s education
- I am sorry that you were offended
Lessons Learned
- Declare your intention with action
- Lessons about your vehicle insurer
- The Wrong Side of Happy
- Things I learned from my first book
- Things I learned from my first business trip
- Vocal Lessons
Poetry | Workbooks #14 & #15
- A Strange Pattern
- Almost 13
- Because I understand what it’s like to be a teenager
- borrowed advice
- Casting Light
- Counting to Twelve
- Passage
- The Agony of Living
- Unnamed Children
Quotations
- A portrait of home
- apprenticeship
- creativity
- bereavement
- Dear Abigail: Paraphrasing John Adams
- December 30
- hard work
- In the Language of Love
- It’s gonna take you a while
- July 23
- Keep your career and work separate
- Look again
- omissions
- Practical Solutions
- Prayer
- Procrastination comes from fear you can’t
- skeletons
- Something safer
- Short fiction process
- The Ordinary
- The story of my life
- Too short
- what we remember