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[1.5.2]

Stories:
I love short stories. It's always great to limit any story to a few hundred words; it forces you to tell the story in as efficient and provocative a manner as possible. In a way, that's sort of like an artist limiting his or her pallete of colours. Why paint with every colour when you can tell the story in only three?

"As I trodded along with this hideous burden, I realized that I was the envy of every gaudy little hipster in Nolita."

slacky tacky"Slacky Tacky"
nonfiction
05/2007

"..an un-encrypted, unsecured connection. We were on in seconds, and paging through employee files, all with photos."

stepford & co"Stepford & Co"
nonfiction
10/2006

"Most likely she had cultivated his talent from childhood. It was, however, a gift that he could never share with her."

the gift"The Gift"
nonfiction
11/2005

"Setting fire to 30 sheets of cemented plastic in the hallway was, in reflection, not the best idea I'd ever had."

avant 'tard"Avant 'Tard"
nonfiction
06/2005

"I peered around the corner, fully expecting to have my face ripped off by a tiny housecat."

her 8-pound nemesis"Her 8-pound Nemesis"
nonfiction
09/2004

"Each time we look, there's another one or two. Eventually, there are thirty or forty of them."

the glass nest"The Glass Nest"
fiction
09/2004

""Well, how do you explain the marks around your girlfriend's neck?" Ms. Berry asked accusingly."

the rope"The Rope"
nonfiction
07/2004

"It was as if losing her left eye had made her completely blind."

the seer"The Seer"
nonfiction
04/2004

"..with just a touch from her, I abandoned my selfless mission in favour of a more familiar one."

the kite"The Kite"
nonfiction
12/2001

"What is love itself worth, I would wonder, if everyone professed it to you?"

the lesson"The Lesson"
nonfiction
03/1998

Essays:
Perhaps I should call this section 'Editorials', instead. The topics vary, but particular emphasis is placed on art and new media.

A minor analysis of the nature of storytelling, past, present and future.

the patchwork monolith"The Patchwork Monolith"
preoccupied babbling
12/2004

An editorial on the diminishing importance of art in the information age.

shallow"Shallow"
nihilistic drivel
05/1999

Microfiction:
just dabbling here




Prose:
It is said that poetry is the ultimate act of arrogance. The works contained here are short, self-important, and (I regret to add) updated frequently.

 

clouds"treads"
2004

self/doubt"self/doubt"
03/2003

insect"insect"
11/2003

eleven/13/nineteen/18"eleven/13/nineteen/18"
11/1998

binary gaijin"binary gaijin"
06/1998

critic"critic"
1998

wife"wife"
02/1996

misery"misery"
06/1995

synapse"synapse"
02/1995



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