Here are some stories I have written. These are meant to be longer pieces which tell a complete story or at least set a complete scene; I also have a variety of shorter pieces on a separate page, linked to below. There is nothing new here not because I have stopped writing, but because I have been working on things to publish, and if I put it on the Internet first, I can't sell the first printing rights. If you care, email me and I can send you some more stuff.

Note: none of these stories are furry porn (I get a lot of people here looking for porn due to the hostname). My mother reads this website! Come on! Go back to Google.



answering machine html pdf txt May 2002 This is a story about a woman who is also an answering machine. Written as much as an exercise for myself as anything else, I think it does a lot of things right. Anita Desai liked it. She said it was like a painting.
art school html pdf txt Spring 2002 This story won a prize. It was written a couple years ago. I still really like what it is doing but think it needs some work. Maybe I will get to that work someday.
charm school html pdf txt Spring 2002 I still really like the idea for this story. Especially the main character. I don't think it says what I meant it to though. Still, you can read it and find out for yourself.
fedora html pdf txt October 2003 Revised March 2004, with a richer ending! Woo. This inspired the Simon novel but has since been entirely cut out of it. "Get your magic realism out of my book, Simon."
glimpse html pdf txt September 2001 This was the first story I wrote at MIT. I hadn't written fiction in a couple of years. It kind of shows. Maybe someday I will dig out stories from high school, which were much worse. This one is actually still kind of neat.
marian html pdf txt November 2001 I really like this one. It is written from a very different perspective. Also, an incident in the story started the meme "harsh flakes."
mongrel html pdf txt December 2001 I seem to like writing things about cars. Cars are cool.
night school html pdf txt Spring 2003 An interesting set of interactions between two characters. I wrote this one pretty recently and am fond of it, though it does not have that much depth.
resonant html pdf txt Spring 2003 Susan really likes this story. I do too, though the cell phone is still kind of awkward. Not sure if I should take it out or not.
turning eleven html pdf txt December 2003 This will probably be changed significantly. There is a lot under the surface I would like to bring out.
simony html pdf txt July 2004 This story has changed a lot since this version, and is ending up a chapter in a longer work. I haven't posted that because I might want to actually try to sell it.
umbrella html pdf txt Spring 2003 This story is entirely carried by the first and last sentences. Entirely. Well, some of it is OK. I even like some of it. but those two sentences, man, they are great.
vending machine html pdf txt September 2003 Now revised as of December 1 2003! And again as of March 2004! I really really like how I see this story in my head, but I'm not sure if I've got it all on the page yet. 
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