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What the other applications on my computer think of Microsoft Office when asked by the author during a dinner party at his mother’s house.

“You’re kidding me, right?” whispered Adium, my instant messenger application, over the ice bucket that my mom put on top of the washing machine in the back hall, where we both stood, me making a vodka and tonic, and him just having a root beer, “Those guys are huge! I’m not going to say anything [...]

Fiction Writing 2.0

Sean Coon, over at connecting*the*dots, has an interesting article, entitled, “Writing 2.0,” where he talks about some people out there - Chris Anderson of “The Long Tail” fame, David Weinberger of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” fame being two of them - who are actively writing their books with help of the blogosphere.
Sean writes:
Now, this approach is [...]

The Coca-Cola Complex

He had been at it for three days. There was an American twenty-dollar bill stuck behind a Coke machine, and his sister’s snatch if he couldn’t use twenty-dollars American. It was out of reach, though it took him 10 minutes to admit it to himself. He didn’t want to go outside to his cart — [...]

Scrabbala

Did I ever tell you the one about those kids over on Cowpunch Ave? It seems there were these four kids, sitting in that little white apartment back up on the hill, the one with the warm orange light coming out of it, the whitish drapes in the windows, the rug down on the floor, [...]

An Electrifying Love Letter

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How am I supposed to begin?

[Originally Posted on the old Fluid Imagination site]
How am I supposed to begin to tell you about this thing that, on a terribly inspiring San Francisco Bay night, where the rain was pounding against my window like a simile that needs an ending, where the cold wind walked through my screen door and demanded an [...]

This Is The Before The Beginning

I intended to write the story of a person writing an analysis of a non-existent story. The non-existent story isn’t non-existent in the technical sense, of course - it exists in my head - what’s more, it probably exists in the real world as well: I wrote the story, There once is a room, when [...]

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