In lieu of a new post this week, I've dredged up some old short stories I wrote. This is the first time I'm posting them on the web. I wrote them for a Fiction Writing course I took Senior year at Wash U.

I just read them myself for the first time in almost three years. It's interesting to see which themes still resonate with me today. My favorite of these three is Time-Sickness. It's pretty a pretty odd assortment of scenes and ramblings on the nature of time. I think it capture the unease I felt at the pace time was passing back then. I still feel a little time-sickness every so often...

The other two stories are a bit goofier. Acapulco was in response to a constrained writing assignment and my buddy Brad found the story very amusing. Alchmey was a throwback to the choose your own adventure genre in which I attempted a bit of satire; the choices had extremely odd ramifications. I don't think it worked as a satire or choose your own adventure but it has some interesting conceits.

For completeness here are a few short stories I had written around the same time. They've been on my site for ages but I never posted them to this blog. I think Upload is the most interesting of the lot...