The short story

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short story, story telling

A few weeks ago, I took on Steadycat‘s challenge to submit a short story by the end of the month. Obviously, I missed that deadline, but I have two good reasons. One, I thought it was a leap year and had given myself another day – OK, that’s really not a good reason. Second, while many out there are suddenly without a job, I have been working two – not voluntarily, trust me. With work keeping me until 10 PM for most of the month, I have been in no mood to write.

But, I wanted to keep up my end of the bargain and started digging through old stories I always intended to finish, but never did. As I started perusing the graveyard of short stories in my files, I exhumed one that immediately made me break out in incredulous laughter. A story from 1998, about how the Ferret and I met and said goodbye. We had no idea back then that ten years later we’d be engaged.

Although it’s a very short story and I have honestly made little effort to edit it, I hope you enjoy it anyway.

Winter (2004-2007)

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Poetry

This time was a creative dry spell for me. I wrote some stories and some poetry, but most of it unfinished or very poor at least. This is all that remains of the poems I attempted during that time. It spans another long term relationship that started on very weak foundations and very strong persistence. It was a long struggle with an undercoat of deep affection. When the struggle ended, I felt like someone had opened a window and let in fresh air. I could think again, breathe again and mostly feel myself again.

Equinox (1999-2003)

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Poetry

These poems were written when I was in university. They span the second semester of my freshman year all through my exchange year as a student in Taiwan and up to graduation. At that age, finding yourself gets a whole new meaning. It’s less about who you are as a person, and more about what you want to become. Faced with the challenges of making choices that would set my future, these poems reflect the different corners my mind went to in trying to pin down what was right for me.