PORTFOLIO FOR KYLE SMITH-LAIRD
Narrative Design
& Game Writing
Screenplays
Novels/Short Stories
Poetry
Published Short Stories
Palm Springs Eternal by Macrame Literary Journal
Gipson's Holy War by Cosmic Daffodil Journal
The Siren's Swan Song by Macrame Literary Journal
"The Future of Sleep" by WIRED online April 2023
Short Stories Accepted for Publication
Scrape by Horror Tree/Trembling With Fear
OTHER WRITING SAMPLES
Samples from Quora
Quora is a website where people with expertise answer questions posed by the community to further discussion, education, and knowledge. Mine was Roman history.
Top Ten Darkest Secrets from Ancient Rome
Were the people who killed Caesar good or bad? Why?
Who are the most interesting historical figures whose names most people don't know?
Times Old Roman
In a fantastic collaboration with the talented graphic artist, Bee Murphy, we discussed Roman historical figures, then I wrote about their strange and terrible deeds, which she used as inspiration for her incredible drawings.
gutta lapidem cavat non vi sed saepe cadendo
"Little drops of water hollow out stone; not by force but by falling often" - Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto
