PORTFOLIO FOR KYLE SMITH-LAIRD
Narrative Design
& Game Writing
Screenplays
Novels & Short Stories
Poetry
Published Works
My Sister's Pink Mustache by Your Impossible Voice
Hutteger's Demise by Macrame Literary Journal
How Android of Him by HauntedMTL
Scrape by Horror Tree/Trembling With Fear
The Tornado by Troublemaker Firestarter Vol. 777
Head vs. Heart by One Forty Fiction
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
Poem published
For Fritz by WILDsound Writing Festival
Short Stories in Latin (for the NACCP - North American Cambridge Classics Project)
Fabulae mirabiles (for Unit I)
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
