This is a short story I’ve been working out for a contest with McSweeney’s. Derived from one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s notebook entries, it has gone from ‘A Prince goes to Hollywood and is stuck only playing Princes…” to what follows. I am also working on a novel treatment based on this story.
Category Archives: Short Story
A Letter in Regret
This is a story I wrote in a blind flash of inspiration. I had originally written the first paragraph to begin what I imagined as a Zombie road-trip story. Upon revisiting that stanza a year and a half later, this is what poured out of me. This is obviously NOT a true story though, for some reason, people keep giving me their condolences as if it were. I did lose my very dear Uncle to the terrors of ‘the Big C’ and have nothing but compassion and respect for anyone who has lived through it, or watched someone else die. So I guess you could say – inspired by the surreal nightmares induced by the intimate knowledge of a true story that bears no resemblance to the current work – does that work?
Tremulous
Now that you’ve seen the worst I can come up with in that last post, let’s see just how far I’ve come, shall we?
The following is a short story about love, life and other catastrophes. I am calling it TREMULOUS for the time being, until a better title presents itself. Maybe y’all can help me with the title if you have something better…
Anyhoo… Check it out, leave me some notes, help me make it better so that I can feed the Baby and put some new hotpants on the Wife…
The Office Pirate
Here’s another “Short Story”, more of what I’d call a ‘Brautigan’, as it is in the short, poetic-speak style of Richard Brautigan’s short work. This is another one from back in the vaults, so cut me a little slack in the content department – though I will say it was written looong before PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN or the current Pirate Fad making the rounds.
Check it out.
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