Aaron Simon

Wordsmith, Independent

United States of America

Currently living in Portland, Oregon, I've got experience writing comic scripts, screenplays, longform fiction, and short fiction.

I hold an M.A. from the University of Kent's Creative Writing program, have been published in Danse Macabre, the University of Tennessee's Phoenix Literary and Arts magazine, and have had a short article picked up by Playboy's iOS division.

Portfolio
Danse Macabre ~ An Online Literary Magazine
10/09/2015
"Gods of Portland"

Danse Macabre, Nevada's first online literary magazine, specialising in coloratura letters from around the world and beyond the grave.

Danse Macabre ~ An Online Literary Magazine
"My Dog The Dybbuk"

I'd usually define my normal day as something like this: After work, I take my dog to the park and-maybe-get some reading in, hang out with friends, sleep, then back to work the next day and the cycle begins again. Toss in some Internet surfing if my connection hasn't crapped out.

Independently produced, 2010
06/07/2010
Short film screenplay - The Attack of the Weretimberwolf Hybrid

A farce, I wrote and produced the movie after binge-watching a bunch of Sci-Fi Channel original movies. This is the description from Vimeo: We at Simontek Industries and FlynnArts LTD are pleased to present Gerhard Schneider-Wilkes's masterpiece, The Attack of The Weretimberwolf-Hybrid. About the film: First premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, it garnered considerable attention. It has been called "terrible," "a warning to future directors," and, "what is this, a joke?" The Attack...

Unproduced
Grave Robbing - short screenplay

A short, unproduced screenplay that follows a man as he attempts to rob the grave of a gangster to regain his family's honor.