I imagine some of my audience enjoys the bespoke content so here is a list of my short stories from college ranked from worst to best - no you can't read them, I have no access, they live only in memory and now twitter. But anyway here's the Buzzfeed listicle:
Desymposium - Freshman year
I guess I was trying to do Plato's Symposium around my friend's divorce and a story he told me about characters who he had Thanksgiving with. Meh.
I guess I was trying to do Plato's Symposium around my friend's divorce and a story he told me about characters who he had Thanksgiving with. Meh.
Post-Modern Beowulf - 2nd Semester Sophomore
A school shooting story where there's a cool kid who beats the school shooter to death thus saving people and he is widely lionized. I think I missed an opportunity here climaxing on the fight, should have dwelled on the adulation.
A school shooting story where there's a cool kid who beats the school shooter to death thus saving people and he is widely lionized. I think I missed an opportunity here climaxing on the fight, should have dwelled on the adulation.
Sex Out The Garden -1st 1/2 Soph.
Retelling of garden of eden in anthropological terms with psychedelic fruit and a threesome with Lillith as the denoument.
This should have been better than it was.
Retelling of garden of eden in anthropological terms with psychedelic fruit and a threesome with Lillith as the denoument.
This should have been better than it was.
Absinthe Heterarchy (Jr.) -
Aliester Crowley entertains criminals in a bar in New Orleans while drinking absinthe by telling the story of Shakespeare as Christopher Marlow cross-dressing and telling Faustus to a cross-dressing sex worker, this Faustus knocks up Angelina Jolie.
Aliester Crowley entertains criminals in a bar in New Orleans while drinking absinthe by telling the story of Shakespeare as Christopher Marlow cross-dressing and telling Faustus to a cross-dressing sex worker, this Faustus knocks up Angelina Jolie.
Road Tripping for Crystal - Sophomore Year
This is about a nerdy yet cool teenager boy who falls in love with his waitress from Bob Evans who takes him on a trip into DC to buy wholesale meth because she needs cash for her baby, whose name is... Crystal yes.
This is about a nerdy yet cool teenager boy who falls in love with his waitress from Bob Evans who takes him on a trip into DC to buy wholesale meth because she needs cash for her baby, whose name is... Crystal yes.
Absinthe was too clever for its own good but that would not have been a killer if I had written in a bit more cleanly, I also over did the style. If I had written it clean I think it could have been zany enough to get published.
Crystal I liked for sentimental reasons.
Crystal I liked for sentimental reasons.
The ending to Road Tripping for Crystal was just them watching the sunrise in non-sexual intimacy and I thought it all landed from being sort of like Spun to getting to the innocence of the Anime Con where the protag. is hanging before eating at Bob Evans. That works for me still
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