Websafe Studio

Text: Short fiction

Writer Statement

I agree with John Gardner that the writing of fiction is the "creation of a vivid and continuous dream." To write, one enters this dream state and allows one's characters to inhabit one's being and to speak through one.

My fiction influences are diverse and range from 19th-century traditionalists like Henry James, Edith Wharton and George Gissing to 20th-century modernists like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and postmodernists like Donald Barthelme.

Short Fiction

• Christmas in July The human family has many points of view, as does any single human psyche.
• The Decryption of Floriform X This short, illustrated fiction was written on Twitter circa 2008, each tweet numbered to keep track.
• The God of Wind and Air Unfinished sequel to Decryption, written collaboratively on Twitter.
• In That Case Answers all the questions it contains, plus includes a sestina.
• The Love-Debts of Pallas Athena A song about Florida.
• The Manuscript of Jacob Hall Why write fiction? What is it "for"?
• The Suicide Bug Organic malware brings a message of mortality.