Moments in which a person has come to the standard edge of things, and must face aspects of personality and emotional life which he or she has not previously faced.
Stories for the Boxglow
Fictional narratives of varying quality.
63 Sections
Stories about Money and Business
Because that’s where life is lived.
Speculations
Various imaginary tales.
ATM
Tell me what you think, she said.
Box One
It’s the box, in your brain, that makes you feel these things.
14 Jan 98
Whiteout Day
15 Jan 98
Hard Times on Madison Avenue
25 Jan 98
Two Quick Pieces, One Month After Christmas
10 Feb 98
Dialogue Between the Missionary and her Seducer
01 Mar 98
Snakes and Angels
10 Mar 98
Guidance Counselor
20 May 98
Day’s Work
23 May 98
Shaggy Dog Story
10 Jun 98
The Way it Works
13 Jun 98
Neighborhood Character
18 Jun 98
Television Fantasy
30 Jun 98
Knitodendron
01 Jul 98
What happened and how it happened. An experiment, I guess.
22 Jul 98
Day One
23 Jul 98
Day Two
24 Jul 98
Day Three
Shame
A terrible thing happened in the bathroom.
Tourist
When friends lecture, friends get annoyed.
Address (First Draft)
Narrator says: I’m just a gigolo
Tattoo
An odd little lecture from a man with symbols on his skin.
Off the Sofa
A little lecture from the author of such fine works as “Off the Sofa”
‘Thropic
Hating Life and hating people!
First Date After the Breakup
A terrible first date. A catastrophe.
Heat
Sex, it’s all about sex.
Brief Interview
A discussion with a stranger about her family.
Rationales: A Spontaneous, Topical Play for Voices
A play about Kosovo.
At 10 (Quick Sketch)
Another wee story
On My Way to Meet You
A strange experiment about cars and New Jersey.
Fall and Winter 1992 (First Draft)
A fiction about older women
Daily Entry Written on Powerful Prescribed Drugs
Reality falters, splinters, death.
Possible Beginnings to Science Fiction Novels
How do I start?
A Defense of Sexual Loneliness
A fiction which of course many readers wrote in about thinking I was a sick, crazy fuck, because people don’t get it, no
Shame
A horrible event.
Passerine Among the Natives
I’m counting minutes as she’s making a documentary.
Brass Railing
What we talk about when we look at boats.
Art Book
The protagonist in denial.
Why are Human Beings So Terrible?
Lines stretched from 512 to 718.
The Subway Diary: 25-Nov-97
Dinner # 27
The Subway Diary: 23-Mar-98
Letter I
The Subway Diary: 28-Mar-98
Found Correspondence
The Subway Diary: 04-Apr-98
Luggage I
The Subway Diary: 18-Apr-98
Night Drive
The Subway Diary: 06-May-98
Half-story
Love Lost to the Ylem
Quantum love’s a true bitch.
The Subway Diary: 09-Dec-97
The Idle Urban Chitchat of (Former?) White Trash
11 June 2001
The eve of the execution.
Stories about Birds
Where the birds come to roost, on Ftrain.
Nominally Concerning a Shirt
A section from a story about two people negotiating.
Librarians and Tigers
A hypothesis regarding portrayals of librarians, intermixed with images of tigers in libraries. A fiction, sort of.
The Man on the Roof
He was there, and then he wasn’t. Click...
Squirrel and Rat
I have writer’s block, but feel the need to put something new here.
3 Chemistry Stories
An acid, an enzyme. A catalyst, a solution.
Fremington on the Machines
A short series: David Fremington, he of the large frame, has decided to go to the gym, with vivid energy.
Flash
The Flood
The Pencil, the Monkeys
A late night, last-ditch story.
Rejected Political Cartoons
Sans cartoon.
Working for the Man
A scenario.
Fragments of the Doomsday Canticle
The Doomsday Canticle