Amber Drea

Fiction

• "Acid on the Fourth of July," Akashic Books' Thursdaze Series, April 2015 (link)
  Flash fiction about LSD
• "I Was Stalked in High School," Hypertext Magazine, December 2013 (link)
  Creative nonfiction about my high school stalker
• "The Anatomy of a Mosh Pit," McSweeney's Internet Tendency, November 2013 (link)
  Experimental humor inspired by the heavy metal band Anthrax
• "Filipino Baby," The Northville Review's YouTube issue, September 2012 (link)
  Short fiction inspired by the Cowboy Copas song of the same name
• "You Give Love a Bad Name," CellStories, January 2010 (pdf)
  Creative nonfiction written for a now-defunct mobile-only website
• "Where Everyone Gets Laid," Another Chicago Magazine, #49 (pdf)
  Short fiction originally written for The Dollar Store reading series in Chicago
• "Hell Is for Children," The2ndhand.com, October 2007 (link)
  Short fiction inspired by the Pat Benatar song of the same name
• "Girls' Night Out," The2ndhand.com, July 2006 (link)
  Creative nonfiction published in The2ndHand's Itinerary series
• "A Not-So-Missed Connection," Story Week Reader, March 2005 (pdf)
  Flash fiction selected for Columbia College Chicago's festival publication
• "Leisure Activities," The Chicago Reader, December 2004 (link)
  Short fiction selected for The Chicago Reader's 2004 Fiction Issue