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LONG FICTION

Yep, I'm working on a novel, an epic (at least in length) fantasy laboring under the working series title Empire of the Dead. I'll post excerpts here as they reach something resembling a decent state. There is also a Cast of Characters (so far)

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10

I spent many a late night on it in college and immediately following. While going to night classes for my master's degree in tech writing, I stopped working on it altogether, and didn't start again until two years after I graduated. I'd been unemployed for about four months at the time, saw very few prospects, and finally had one absolutely horrible day that I mostly spent crying. The next day I found myself opening up a file and reading, and making some edits, and I've been trying to gather steam ever since (oh, and a couple of weeks after my despairing episode I got a job; life is funny).

Not quite fiction but not quite anything else, check out the Role-Playing section of this site for my work on various games, both email and transcribed real-time.

SHORT FICTION

The Grey Suit stands alone in my portfolio in that it's strictly real-world. Real, ugly world, at that. This one does not get a PG rating. It now strikes me as very early-90s in its themes. What can I say, I was in college and short on sleep.

In reaction to "The Grey Suit" I wrote My Last All-Nighter, my rather poor attempt at Douglas-Adams-style humor. I've included it here for completeness' sake, not because I actually think it's good, although it does have moments I still like. Basically, it was the end of the semester and I was stressed beyond belief, not to mention not really liking my Creative Writing professor. Thank goodness, we do grow up; I'm surprised she put up with me.

RANT ARCHIVE

Every week as part of the site update I try to find something new to complain about, puzzle over, or occasionally celebrate briefly. These are the ones I like.

1. The Very First Rant: Cannibal Snack Foods (3/23/1999)
2. MTV's "The Blame Game" (3/29/1999)
3. The First Amendment (4/6/1999)
4. Commodify Your Dissent (4/21/1999)
5. Flag Burning (5/5/1999)
6. Online Gambling (5/12/1999)
7. Tolkien (5/17/1999)
8. Advertising (5/26/1999)
9. Net Issues (6/2/1999)
10. 'R' Movies (6/9/1999)
11. Boston (6/16/1999)
12. Another Kennedy Death (7/21/1999)
13. Republican Tax Cuts (8/25/1999)
14. East Timor (9/15/1999)
15. My Feminist Reading List (9/22/1999)
16. Sex Sells... Yogurt? (9/29/1999)
17. AIDS in Africa (10/13/1999)
18. ECHELON and Other Things (11/10/1999)
19. The Sokal Hoax (11/17/1999)
20. AOL/Time Warner (1/12/2000)
21. Generation X (1/19/2000)
22. Long Hair (8/30/2000)
23. Christmas Music (10/4/2000)
24. Seasonal Fads (10/11/2000)
25. Free-Floating Anxiety (10/18/2000)
26. Apple Tech Support (10/25/2000)
27. Entertaining with Style (11/8/2000)
28. Election 2000 (11/15/2000)
29. Hey, Cutie (12/20/2000)
30. Notes for the New Year (1/3/2001)
31. Beef! (1/17/2001)
32. Libraries, and a Few Other Things (2/14/2001)
33. Faith-Based Initiative (2/21/2001)
34. National Budget (2/28/2001) (Extra-prescient!)
35. Estate Tax (3/7/2001)
36. Pornography! (3/14/2001)
37. MTV (4/11/2001)
38. Various and Sundry Stupidities (4/25/2001)
39. Boot Cut Capris (5/9/2001)
40. Reunions (6/20/2001)
41. David Horowitz (6/27/2001)
42. Body Image (8/22/2001)
43. Post 9/11 (9/19/2001)
44. Los Angeles Wedding (10/3/2001)
45. Bio-Weapons (10/10/2001)
46. Predictions (10/17/2001)
47. Catalogs (11/28/2001)
48. Christmas (12/6/2001)
49. Marketing (12/19/2001)

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