Posted in Fiction, Genre, Nerdliness, tagged Fiction, Genre, genre fiction, horror, repost, suspense, two-page story on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For some reason this has been in the “Top Posts” sidebar for a while. You judge for yourself just why.
Reposted from last May.
Two-page story
One: I woke up. Two: It was morning. Three: I was not at home.
Where I was I didn’t know, or I wasn’t sure, or I’d forgotten. I was [...]
Posted in Fiction, Genre, tagged abduction, angel, Fiction, Genre, sci fi, short story on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
She was gone. The window was open, and she was gone. I looked stupidly outside at the tree in bloom and the blue sky behind it. She was gone.
It wasn’t unexpected, of course. She had been getting restless for a while. I wasn’t even sad, particularly, just deeply, humbly, unbelievably, sure. Final things, you know, [...]
Posted in Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poems, podcast, tagged complaining, complaining with kay, complaint, dream, egyptian song, Fiction, Genre, horror, lie, podcast, podcasting, poem, Poetry, sax, sax solo, saxophone, short story, silver, soldier, wedding ring on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this episode:
Soldier
“I lied about my wedding ring…”
Two-page story
Sax solo
Music:
“Egyptian Song” (Rupert Davies, arr. and performed by Benjamin Mueller-Heaslip
My dorky piano rendition of “Dream a little dream of me”
Link.
Posted in Fiction, Prose Poems, tagged arrgh, grr, prose poem, sad, short fiction, spoiler on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey there, sad, miserable, lonely person, don’t try to bring the world down, OK? Not the world, not even one person, not even if you hate him. Not even if he hurt you and he deserved it. Not for that. Not for anything.
I’m no stranger to revenge, but I know it doesn’t work. In the [...]
Posted in Computer, Everyone's a critic, Fiction, Weirdness, tagged aha, Fiction, forum, hmm, hoax, Internet, omgwtfbbq, online community, short fiction, short story, skepchick, troll, troll tale, wtf on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some time ago I speculated (in a post entitled “I suck at chess”) about someone faking a terminal illness in an online community. And it turns out…I was right!
In all honesty, I can totally see how something like this could get started. We all like a good ego-stroking, and I suppose if you were [...]
Posted in Fiction, Poetry, Prose Poems, music, podcast, singing, tagged complaining, complaining with kay, complaint, Fiction, first love, happiness, music, piano, podcast, poem, poems, Poetry, Prose Poems, singing on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read some little things I’ve written – some prose poems and one, um, poem poem.
“On one of the streets near where I live…”
First Love
Ground State
“Will you say to yourself…”
Music in this episode:
“Kornblumen” (Richard Strauss, performed by me and Ben – recorded live at Hart House last November)
“Fleurs” (Francis Poulenc, performed by me and Ben [...]
Posted in Computer, Fiction, Genre, Weirdness, podcast, rant, tagged blasphemy, commute, commuter, complaining, complaining with kay, complaint, cursing, explicit, food, food porn, podcast, podcasting, porn, pron, religion, suburban, suburbs, swearing, taboo, tag on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Encouraged by some positive feedback on last week’s dramatic monologue reading (OK, one nice comment on Facebook…), I offer a reading of the story I posted yesterday. I would have used a Dweezil Zappa sort of accent for the narrator, but…I can’t do accents. Except for Ranier Wolfcastle.
Also in this episode: why on earth do [...]
Posted in Fiction, Genre, tagged blasphemy, exodus, Fiction, genre fiction, god, historical fiction, moses, religion, sci fi, science fiction, short story, ten commandments on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is an idea for a short story that I had a while ago, but never actually wrote. Somewhat NSFW for swearing and blasphemy.
Two-page story: The Exodus
Some people dislike leaving. I’ve always found it rather a relief, personally; that moment when all the goodbyes are said and you can turn around, sling your bag over [...]
Posted in Fiction, Prose Poems, tagged Fiction, hmm, horror, prose poem, sci fi, science fiction, short story on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just found this in a notebook. It might be some kind of prose poem or the beginning of a science fiction novel. Hard to say. It’s called “Two-Page Story” because the only constraint I set was that it had to fit in exactly two pages of the notebook. I think it’s from this February, [...]
Posted in Computer, Everyone's a critic, Fiction, rant, tagged boingboing, book review, chicklit, cory doctorow, Everyone's a critic, everyone's a critic of criticism, feminism, feminist, jane austen, pride and prejudice, pride and prejudice and zombies, review, women in literature, zombie on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On BoingBoing the other day, Cory Doctorow reviewed an awesome-sounding book – a version of Pride and Prejudice skillfully rewritten to take place in a Regency England overrun by zombies. In interests of full disclosure, I have not read this book, and I HAVE read the original Pride and Prejudice more times than I care [...]
