As I am single and my roommate is away for the summer, I have taken on a lifestyle similar to a buzzard’s.
I inhabit a cave on the fourth story of my building, but as it is too hot to live in I spend my days shuffling back and forth on my roof, looking out over [...]
Category Archives: Story
SWM in Brooklyn
July 25, 2010 – 5:56 pm
On Narrative Structure
July 15, 2010 – 12:36 am
Narrative is a High Level Data Structure
was the first thing I read this morning. It was a text message that Ethan Jucovy had sent the night before.
“Or…is data a high level narrative structure?” I responded, pleased with myself for having found something to say on the topic at 7:14 am. I was [...]
Grower and STV
July 6, 2010 – 10:33 am
Circa 2150, humanity discovers that an enormous spore the size of a comet has drifted into its solar system. Scientists study it and conclude that it is a kind of deep space megaflora that propagates slowly from star to star.
The first astrobotanists nurtured the plant with sunlight and the atmospheric chemicals of Venus, discovering that [...]
The Difficulty of Being a Bomb
July 2, 2010 – 10:30 am
By virtue of good breeding, Henry was an extraordinarily compassionate and generous young man. He contained a bomb that would explode at any minute and kill everyone in a twenty foot radius.
His unique burden gave him a sense of perspective which others, to his dismay, found magnetic.
“Be careful around me,” he advised. “There is [...]
The Mothership
June 30, 2010 – 10:15 am
The waiting was over. After forty years of dedicated service on Earth the mothership had finally returned to take him home again.
He did not remember it well. It was soft, damp, and warm. There was nothing to worry about there.
Life on the Plane of Astral Semantics
June 28, 2010 – 10:30 am
The ancient form of magic performed by telling stories, weaving oaths and such became more advanced as a generation of self-taught youths discovered the Plane of Astral Semantics.
Their bodies in the Primate Material Plane held in trances, these wizards battled and became enamored in the silver-lit ether of their parallel universe. In anger they [...]
Twin bodies
June 26, 2010 – 3:05 pm
There has never been in outer space this phenomenon seen once or twice on Earth: two perfect bodies purified of irregularity circling each other, never increasing or decreasing in distance from each other.
A Sea Captain
June 15, 2010 – 11:06 pm
for Ethan Jucovy
“As you know, when I was your age I was already out on the open sea fighting pirates and scoundrels.”
The cool night breezed through the candle-lit cabana. The captain of the mercenary ironclad People’s Hammer began to fill his pipe. He wore a silver medal on his civilian jacket. His [...]
The Fantasy
April 30, 2010 – 10:37 am
Marcel had had a fantasy based on concepts from three books he had been reading and an offhand remark that Phillipe didn’t remember.
“The language games of the Martians and the cave dwellers became life-forms that existed primarily in the quivering extra dimensions of the super-string loops. They battled for supremacy over the evolution of [...]
The Barbershop
April 29, 2010 – 8:51 pm
Marcel planted himself firmly outside of the barbershop.
“I’ve never gone to the barber. I won’t know what to do.”
“Just go in and ask for a haircut,” advised Phillipe.
“But how will they know how to cut it? Will I have to wait for a seat to be open? how much will it cost? [...]
