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Home for the Holidays
Last update 3/6/07
This story began in the holiday limbo between Halloween and Thanksgiving, the only time the spirits really come to visit. I wrote it thinking that the only difference between survival horror and comedic absurdity is in the perspective. This is a short about a timid man and an evening scare as he strives to get his wife back from work. I recommend reading this around 7 pm, it's a bit funnier then. READ THIS
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Catch's Release - WIP
Last update 3/6/07
Not quite able to pen an ending to this yet of any great satisfaction, so I'm letting it cook for a bit until I am struck by some other inspiration than the original spark that led me to this... the death of Brooks in Shawshank Redemption played by the late great James Whitmore. While I feel somewhat unoriginal retelling my own version of Brook's story, it was an impulse I couldn't ignore because it was a life I could never imagine. It is fascinating that a man could become so comfortable and dependent on the world of his penance that freedom is a society he can not handle. I felt the need to tell this story with timeline obfuscated. A life sentence, I imagine, leads to inflation and confusion in the value of time. READ THIS
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Seven Rook Mountain - WIP
Last update 5/18/05
When I was a kid, I had this beautiful book filled with what I think were Eastern European fairytales. They were strange, ghastly stories that sometimes had morals, sometimes had heroes, and sometimes were purely stories of no redeeming value other than entertainment and shock. That this was a children's book only made its brand of mischievous violence and cryptic fantasy even more intoxicating. I lost that book. But in order to capture some of the feel of the ungrammatical, unconventional plots, and amoral characters, I decided to weave my own compilation. If someone out there has a book of Baba Yaga, the clockmaker imp, Hans, and the watermen, please let me know. I need it to finish my story. But that is a tale for another night. READ THIS
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