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Category: Writing

  • A crude intrusion into someone else’s fantasies

    Found material might be “evidence” –might even be a direct, indexical sign of a thing that happened–but the thing that happened, the life that contained it, can’t be reassembled, or back-engineered into existence. It’s only what it is now: if you try to glue the fragments together with the sentiments “evoked” in you, all you…

  • Nominations and nominality

    Quoth the redoubtable Nicholas Whyte: This is a very well done and well executed piece of work, and I really enjoyed reading it and can understand why people nominated it. However it is clearly a work of fiction, so I won’t vote for it at all in the Best Non-Fiction category. Well, it’s clearly not a…

  • More dreams, fewer pipes

    I get published, y’know. Now, I announced the release of the Noir anthology from Newcon Press aaaages ago, but the world of reviewing moves pretty slowly when it happens off-line, and only now has this incredibly flattering write-up of my story “A Boardinghouse Heart” made it onto the hallowed pages of Vector, courtesy of the mighty Martin…

  • Poppytar noir

    So, I sold a story a while ago. Not quite as long ago as I wrote the story in question, mind — that was during the second semester of my Masters, which feels like a lifetime ago. Anyway, the sale went to Ian Whates at NewCon Press. Here’s as much as anyone other than Ian…

  • Stuff by me elsewhere

    Haven’t done one of these for a while, but seem to have had a spate of publications since finishing my Masters, and what else is the point of a blog if not for bigging one’s good self right up, as the kids say? What, indeed. So, yeah. That huge essay on Nordic LARP that I…