mDuo13.com - Writings

This page is a home for various writings I've done. Unlike my other hobbies, writing is something I want to eventually make my profession, so I can't post everything I do here... but there's a fair share of things I don't mind giving away, so that's what you'll find here.

TitleLast EditedLengthComments
The Implacable 2009-02-02 1400 words The story of a military rescue worker coping with a near-future world gone awry. Something I threw together for the beginning of a creative writing class.
This is Goodbye 2009-01-25 500 words A piece of flash fiction that sort of served as my introduction to a creative writing class. It's supposed to start off like a fakeout for that awful sort of suicide/breakup/going to college story that creative writing classes tend to generate, but it quickly veers into something more glibly ironic.
KNEW TOO MUCH 2008-11-07 4800 words My entry to the Machine of Death project, though it didn't get in. Story about a reporter who meets a doctor trying to reverse-engineer the death prediction machine, and develops something of an interest in him. I've done a lot more editing (mostly trimming the fat) since the project, so I'm pretty confident the version here reads a lot better than the version I submitted.
Just Friends 2008-11-07 2900 words This is a short story I submitted to my creative writing class a while back. They thought that it was kind of a sophomoric and uninteresting moral, but I thought it was an ambivalent look at growing up and the influences that people can have on one another.
Ocean Surf 2009-02-16 5300 words An meditation on the connections between roller coasters, ocean scenery, finding one's place, and long-lost loves. It might feel somewhat incomplete, but that's all there is to it.
Blue Eyes 2007-10-24 5200 words A story about imaginary friends, ghosts, and mysterious forms of love. May or may not be as cheesey as it sounds.
Rain on East 6th Street 2007-09-30 4300 words This was written pretty much as a joke - it's about a costumed hero who runs around my college campus trying to stop anonymous pranksters from setting off spurious fire alarms. Much of the background and most of the jokes will be - at best - hard to follow for someone who hasn't attended one of the Claremont Colleges... but eh, what the heck, I uploaded it anyway. It's not like it's going to get published elsewhere.
Snow Day 2007-02-27 1700 words A short episode focusing on the relationship between two friends, when climate change brings an abnormal snow to San Jose, California.
The Rose's Testament 2007-01-18 600 words Originally a short piece I created for a class final. It's sort of a mini-thriller involving the image of a bleeding rose. The real experiment here is in the prose, which is much thicker than I usually write. It's really meant to be read aloud, and as such it's about as close as I usually get to writing poetry.
Planar Strife 2005-12-20 32700 words Once upon a time, I started writing a novel, and I decided that it would be a good idea to post it on my website in roughly page-long increments. Of course, I forgot to account for the fact that I wasn't actually a very good writer and I wasn't leaving room for editing/rewriting, so the result was not exactly something amazing. There are some things, however, that I do like about it... and perhaps, someday, if I go back and do a lot of editing, it can be "good". But for now, here's a PDF of the very incomplete story - which hasn't been touched in a long time except to fix some embarassing typos.