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Short Stories
Not related to any larger work
Though I like stories that are supplements to a larger work, I also write one-off stories sometimes, and these are a few of them. In some ways, these are my weaker works. However, they're also a chance to experiment, which I really appreciate and benefit from, I think. I could never write about the world I created for "The Divorce", which is set about fifty years in the future in East London, within the world I've created for my novels, which is focused around the 7th of June, 2002, in Baltimore, Washington, and Northern Virginia.
| brains | "A Tale of Two Brains": A short story about love, sex, and mental illness. |
| divorce | "The Divorce": In the near future, a little girl escapes from the reality of her parents' divorce. The least punk cyberpunk ever written. |
| amanuensis | "Pharmaceuticamanuensis": A stenographer and a famously reclusive genius conspire to create the Great American Novel. |
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| symposium | "The Symposium": In which twelve fictional characters from all over my bookshelf sit down to discuss the definition of love. |
characters | Dramatis Personae. |
| interlude | First Interlude. |
| fenchurch | Fenchurch, from Douglas Adams's So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, on love and madness. |
| interlude | Second Interlude. |
| deltoid | P.R. Deltoid, from Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, on tough love. |
| interlude | Third Interlude. |
| panther | Anthea, from E. Nesbit's Five Children and It, on love of family. |
| interlude | Fourth Interlude. |
| finn | Finn MacCool, a character from Irish legend, on love of nation. |
| interlude | Fifth Interlude. |
| franny | Franny Berry, from John Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire, on loving bears and brothers. |
| interlude | Sixth Interlude. |
| robin | Robin Goodfellow, a character from English myth, on love and foolishness. |
| interlude | Seventh Interlude. |
| lotaria | Lotaria, from Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler, on love after the revolution. |
| interlude | Eighth Interlude. |
| haroun | Haroun Khalifa, from Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, on love of stories. |
| interlude | Ninth Interlude. |
| baba yaga | Baba Yaga, a character from Russian folklore, on hating love. |
| interlude | Tenth Interlude. |
| major major | Major Major Major Major, from Joseph Heller's Catch-22, on love of conformity. |
| interlude | Eleventh Interlude. |
| daisy | Daisy Buchanan, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, on the limits of love. |
| interlude | Twelfth Interlude. |
| rudy | Rudy Walsh, of Kurt Vonnegut's Deadeye Dick, on love amongst the neuters. |
| conclusion | Conclusion. | | |
| istanbul | "Istanbul: Not at all Constantinople": A series of essays on the city of Istanbul... and its wildlife. |
dogs | "The Wild Pack of Family Dogs": Want to know what it's like to be attacked by Turkish dogs? | | |
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