"Waif OD" is an "erasure fiction" composed by redaction of the text of Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT. It transforms GODOT's claustrophobic world of five male characters into a flash fiction about an abused woman.

(*Part 4 now available as of August, 2020**) A group of counter-culture workers at a lumber yard battle with capitalism, family life, and modern existence. Read by Phoenix Crockett.

Welcome to the special &NOW issue of the NOTRE DAME REVIEW. Now in its fifteenth year, &NOW is a festival that brings together poets and novelists, fiction authors, artists, critics, musicians, programmers, performers and creators of visual, found, electronic, multimedia and other hybrid forms in a celebration of readings, panels, and other performances of innovative writing.

"Going to the Lumber Yard may never be the same again!" proclaims the fictional book jacket for my unpublished 1984 novel. "Big business and government agents team up, with their banks of computers and surveillance satellites, for an immense top-secret energy project in the Sahara Desert; as they become entangled with a small band of nomads and, halfway around the world, the eccentric crew of a California lumber yard, the results offer both analysis and antidote for modern times."

In addition to my unpublished novel manuscript, The Brautigan Library is making available a volume of historical letters, postcards, and other documents, comprising a record of my extensive attempts to publish the novel during 1984 and 1985—and the results of those efforts in dozens of rejections. I've annotated the correspondence, highlighting the careers of many celebrated (and some notorious) literary agents and editors.

Transmediation involves the translation of content from one sign-system (or mode) to another, and the semioticians remind us that modes have different affordances so "the physical form of the literary artifact always affects what the words (and other semiotic components) mean" (Hayles, "Writing Machines," 2002).

I created this text by erasure or "blackout" of the Tables of Contents, Introductions, and Executive Summaries of the official Department of Justice Mueller Report. As erasure fiction (vs. erasure poetry), it's been edited for punctuation and capitalization, in order to create syntactical prose sentences from the found text. Contains adult and X-rated language.

This is an X-rated erasure text composed from the official Mueller Report. The story consists of the words left unredacted, intended to be read as a continuous narrative. Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction—an artistic adaptation of a public document. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0. #muellerblackout