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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November Rejections
I’ve gone through so many droughts of success when it comes to my writing career, it’s a parched business trying to get published. I’ve gotten turned down so many times in a row, whether it be attempts at getting a story published or having entered a script in a contest, and then I’d get good news! Getting published or moving on in a contest! And that’s the way it always goes. Dozens of rejections, one success. And it’s all worth it. And it would feel tough through all those rejections, but then I’d get that one success and I’d gain perspective. I kept fighting through and finally achieved something that I wanted to.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabileabout a year ago in Writers
Biggest Comebacks in the NFL
Have you ever watched an incredible comeback in the NFL and thought, that's got to be one of the biggest comebacks in NFL history? Have you? Have you then wondered, what is the biggest comeback ever? How did this comeback that I just witnessed stack up against other large comebacks throughout the years. Well, I've got the video for you.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabileabout a year ago in Writers
The Movie Reviewer
This story was originally published on Medium. ************** “All in all, War Dogs was a great movie. I would give it an A minus. I could’ve given it a straight up A, had it not been for the 57 uses of the word “bro” which felt like about 52 too many.” Avery explained, deep in thought, on a roll. “I’m, of course, allowing for two uses of “bro” which actually made for big laughs, and another three uses of “bro” which lent themselves to character development. But still, for a movie just under two hours, that’s about a “bro” every other minute. Too many “bros.”
By Stephen Kramer Avitabileabout a year ago in Fiction
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 Avitabileabout a year 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 • about a year 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 Avitabileabout a year 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 • about a year 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 Avitabileabout a year 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 Avitabileabout a year 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
