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T r a v e l R e p o r t s
The categories are loosely defined.
The pieces are arranged somewhat chronologically,
with newest ones at the top.
Long Fiction
- Novel
- 28,000 words, and my first attempt at a novel
Poems
- Central Nevada Haiku
- RANGE basin highway basin RANGE
- Places
- She is the beekeeper, she is the mapmaker.
- Driving
- Desire whips red screaming down a hard street, gets picked up for speeding
- Diagram of a girl
- Dream of a Dinner Party. See diagram, left.
- Male, Female, Accidental
- It is tool-based and toy-based; supply-dependent, yet determined to win.
- Blue
- She drinks images like milk. The process nearly kills her, every time.
- Wolf-girl
- In seeking the roots of her talents, she figured it was something
that happened when she was five.
- German Phase
- Disdain for the American bourgeoisie floods her countenance.
She clutches a wallet photo of a German officer.
- Ink
- ...cans of diced peaches, unwashed feet, the chaconne.
- Spider
- It whispers...
- Color
- Her favorite weapon was color. Color, adhering to no anatomy, bleeds,
stains, and obscures.
- Confrontation
- She would tell it like it is
She, young, With a Future, romps down the aisle naked but not realizing it.
- Coffee
- THE TEA LOVE SOCIETY has been carrying on an illicit
counter-education program.
- Artist
- The man in the shroud found His place in time:
it was an institution of the mental variety, 1950's America.
Short Short Stories
- Dream Envy
- Decadence has a look, born by fabrics of different colors.
- Words
- In the sunburnt space of her grandma's porch, she read the
collected fairy tales of Grimm. Thus began her battle with
words.
- Haw Flakes
- Mom notices haw flakes on the kitchen table and mistakes them for
something else.
- Fitzgerald
- Judging by her colored-water, weather-driven ways,
there were two places you might have found her that season.
- Swimming
- The acrid odor of an entire four ounces wafts to her nostrils and
rests on her lips. She swallows several times, forces back a shudder,
and rushes down the glass of water.
- The Plan
- Her thoughts danced along the edge of another fine fantasy.
Grab him, pay his way; teach him to beg, to behave, to please.
His teeth were intact.
Trip Reports and Journal Entries
"BOB" is an acryonym referring to the real-life gatherings of the
virtual community and Usenet newsgroup
known as talk.bizarre.
Rumor has it that BOBs are named along the lines of "Something
Something Talk.Bizarre Outrageous Blowout".
Reading the newsgroup may explain more,
if you can see beyond the spam and bad posts that flood it daily.
- Hott.bob Report
- Seven days in New Mexico, August 1995. Tent action. Big sky.
- Burning Man Report
- In honor of all that is strange, beautiful, and flammable.
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Updated 11/4/2002.
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