Alex Greywood
About Alex
Alex was truly a child of the corn — or beans — depending on crop rotation in 1972.
Raised in a small Midwestern town, he nurtured one great ambition: to quit doing whatever he was doing. In the winter of ‘98, that meant leaving behind one profession (teaching) for another (publishing), trading permission slips for deadlines — and collecting more stories than any one life ought to contain.
Today, he works in educational publishing by day and story-forging by night. He’s currently 40,000 words into Days, a character-driven novel about connection, performance, and the quiet heroism of vulnerability. At its center is Helen: perceptive, private, and painfully human. The kind of role that doesn’t demand attention — it earns it.
To support creative collaboration across disciplines, Alex recently launched Mummy Under the Umbrella™ — an artist-first community for actors, writers, and musicians. Its mission is simple: to spark creative collisions that retain heart, humor, and ownership.
He’s quietly at work on five other novels too, though none of them have Instagram accounts. Yet.
Writing Samples
Flash Fiction
All that Glitters
Life is a vampire.
I was – am – old. It didn’t take long to get here, but like most expressways, it wasn’t without its tolls.
I looked down at my hands. My eyes caught the glint of metal as my weathered fingers turned the object over. It wasn’t exactly an EZ Pass, but it was a ticket to something better. Something that would be here in—a quick glance at my watch—18 minutes.
The shadow came from behind, but it was clear in the morning sun. I turned to say, “You’re—”
“...early,” finished the other man as he put away his gun. He pushed over the slumped body and pulled the shimmering metal from the old man’s hands.
Turning the item up, he read the lettering, One free car wash and wax. Tony’s Total Car Wash.
“Totally worth it,” the man thought as he returned to the shadows.
Open Collaborations:
1 - Helen from Days