I have a ton of stories sitting in my cloud drive that I never got around to finishing over the years. My method, when going back to them, is opening two windows: one with the original draft, and one with the new draft. Then I rewrite the entire story. It’s kind of hard to do that at work, though (I write on my lunch break, using my phone and a Bluetooth keyboard).

Or, at least, it was. But recently I figured out how to split-screen Google Drive. Since my phone can’t run the same instance of an app in two separate screens, I have to use the Drive app in one screen and the Drive website in the other. It would be a lot easier if I had a foldable phone, but I don’t — the crease drives me nuts.

Then I finished two stories:

• “Creeping Cold” — a horror story about a guy whose wife loses their baby and how he deals with the grief
• “From the 800s” — I was originally going to make this a true horror story but it’s more contemporary fiction with a side of dread, about a college student who might have accidentally killed someone

It’s difficult to work in both screens because each time you tap on one to scroll it opens the keyboard on-screen. Fortunately my Bluetooth keyboard has a touchpad, and I can two-finger scroll the second screen.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do with these stories; they both need a little work. Maybe I’ll send one out to horror magazines. I don’t know yet. But it’s nice to have finished them.