stories

All stories are lies, just because they are stories.
- Peter S Beagle, "Lal and Soukyan"

This section of the site is going to have a list of stories written by me (including a play and essay). None of them are recent, but they're at least edited and fun reads.

In The Nick Of Time
(1995?) 341 words
This story was written in five minutes as part of a worshop with the Ottawa Valley Writer's Guild.
The Bliss of Ignorance
(1995?) 255 words
Same as the above, but it's a bit more sardonic.
Doing The Right Thing
(1998) 1234 worlds
A story I wrote for an event at Trent University and spoke in front of a crowd. One person noted that while the idea behind it was easy I kept throwing in odd loops. I think it also ensured few people would want to be my room mate :)
Home Sweet Home
(1998) 4414 worlds
A really odd story begun when I was thinking about how mothers abusing children gets very little media coverage (though this is less true now than when I wrote the story). Despite the topics it covers I find it to be a very optimistic story in the end.
How We Kill The Vampires
(1998) 700 words
A perfectly logical reason for how we kill vampires. It's the only thing that makes sense, really.
The Last Death
(1998) 2491 words
A story written when I should have been doing an essay on Coleridge's The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, which explains the many allusions to that poem in the story. I really should have been reading it for an exam but this was more fun.
True love
(1998) 1743 words
Just a heartwarming tale about a psychiatrist and a patient who is in true love.
Walls
(1998) (1998) 1518 words
This story began while sitting alone in a cafeteria at Trent University and evolved from there.
Alone
(1999) 1441 words
Ways to cure being alone ... well, maybe not.
Creating The Future
(1999) 1452 words
A science fiction story about the future.
Long After The End
(1999) 2674 words
This is more of a dialogue than a story in itself and was quite likely the prologue for something I never finished. The complete lack of information about this culture -- even what the sky looks like -- was entirely intentional.
The Last Coming
(1999) 4797 worlds
My best story to date, this was originally going to be a novel and I might just get back to it one of these years. I love the prologue :)

The following is a skit I wrote and so far the only one I've ever done.

A Standard To Judge Against (1999)I read a book of plays at home one day, thought "I could do that" and this was the result.
That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
- Barry Lopez

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