I write fiction really slowly, and when I get deep into technical writing I tend not to write much fiction at all (my mind only seems to work on one track at a time: technical or creative. Not both at the same time). So this page gets very infrequently updated, alas.
Warning: Many of the writings on this page contain foul language, violent incidents, and content not suitable for children (or some adults for that matter). Send me angry email and I will forward it to all my friends to make fun of. You have been warned.
Transmission (2004)
I wrote this after spending time with my cell phone carrier's tech support when my phone was behaving strangely. They told me to reboot my phone. Given that I work in high tech this should not have surprised me but the notion of rebooting the phone seemed kind of funny. I put this story away after Strange Horizons said that funny futuristic tech support stories are way too much of a cliche and they never want to see any more. But then I dug it out again recently and thought well, it isn't that bad. So my cliche is your gain.
Amanita (2002)
I've been feeling like returning to my roots recently and writing horror-ish stuff, but now in a much more subtle way. This won't take you more than 30 seconds to read.
Rain (2001)
Been taking a lot of fiction workshops recently. This was an exercise from one of those. Yes, I write a lot about driving.
Rush Hour (2001)
I used to get incredibly amped up on espresso, go out driving, listen to really loud fast angry music, and then come home and write this. Its sort of an angry violent science fiction alt-future cyberpunk thingie. It is very raw, and it ends badly, but who knows, maybe there's something here to like if you like this sort of thing. Warning: lots of very bad language in this.
Flame (2000)
A short short. Wrote this in 5 minutes. Sometimes things just work.
The All-Nighter (2000)
#2 in the Silicon Valley social commentary series (see the next story for #1). Less technical. More pointed.
Exit Strategy (1999)
A technical tale of bad behavior in Silicon Valley. From reader comments this appears to be so far the best thing I've written.
Roadkill (1992)
Dark highways and the strange things you find on them. Gory.
The Tattoo (1992)
OK, so I read too much Lovecraft as a teenager. One of my "gothic nightclub" stories. Very gory.
Night Blindness (1992)
Another violent gothic nightclub story. Drugs. Violence. Bad language.
Julian & Me (1991)
A fragment from a short story I never finished. It appeared on the back of a T-shirt for the Usenet newsgroup alt.gothic. I once actually thought of an ending for this story, so maybe I'll finish it someday. No violence, just kind of spooky.
