ECLECTIFICTION – Medium
"A growing collection of sometimes eclectic short fiction and experimental poetry" I'm sharing on the Medium platform from my previously published work.
Fiction, multimedia/electronic literature, & poetry
"Velcro World"
"Rotating the jobs at Velcro World is part of Team Building, which creates Trust. Trust is one of our recently-installed Core Values . . . " In this near-future fiction, a private-equity takeover of a Velcro-themed roadside attraction creates a firestorm for employees and management.
Cover art by Serge Lecomte
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"Step Away from the Pizza"
The dads with a traveling girls softball team engage in a cross-cultural confrontation over a pizza delivery. My story begins on page 44 of the journal: "It was half past nine in the evening and the girls were famished and giddy as we waited . . . ."
"The Winograd Matrix"
"The Winograd Matrix" is a Twine fiction in the form of a choice-based game about a couple confined together in a dystopian world of plagues and roving gangs. It appeared originally in KAIROS, republished here in the interactive journal Voidspace 8.
"Henry Revisited"
Featured in CULT #2, now available at Cult.Mag > Store. "Baba's threatening to maim herself with the IED she made with her Replicator," says Junior. "And you know she can do it! Even if she's faking a schizoid episode. The QuickResponders are surrounding her condo."
"Ham Again and Again"
With apologies to Samuel Beckett, Dr. Seuss, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. A short one-act play composed by erasure/redaction of Beckett's "Endgame."
"Counting"
The Goreman Gelders had been undeterred by the groans that followed every BEEP!, or the shivering of grak-enhanced suppressed laughter, or the tear-streaked cheeks of their audience. They resolutely completed the 33-slide filmstrip and opened the floor for questions, but hearing none, they quietly packed up their projector and screen, smoothed down their skinny ties and rebuttoned their nondescript suit jackets. “Nice tapestries,” said the younger Gelder, somewhat longingly . . .
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"The Winograd Matrix"
In this interactive fiction, a gaming-industry couple are confined together in a near-future, post-pandemic world of Favatars, Syndics, and roving bands of Ferengi thugs. Unlike other Choose-Your-Own-Adventure type stories, the reader navigates the narrative by making grammatical (or meaning-making) choices rather than by choosing different actions. #interactive fiction #elit #pandemic fiction #experimental fiction
"Tunneling"
Weasel is following me, panting, on hands and knees, through a passage we call Route 66, even though it’s only a hundred feet long, the diameter of a barrel hoop, and made of clay. “Do you think I want to die in here?” I say. #experimental fiction #futurism #survival #dystopian
"Chance Meeting Between Cambodian National Amputee Volleyball Team, Stephen Hawking, and Black Mothers Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, 2006"
“The future… of humankind… is in outer space,” Hawking says, grinning obliquely. He tells them he’s been invited to orbit the earth on Sir Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo for free. “It won’t cost me… an arm and a leg.”
"June Swoon, 1994"
Why did Eva “swoon (desmayó?) & run away” at the motel? June Swoon. You might think this is a baseball phrase, something that every team has to hear when they go on a losing streak in June. I say this is a wild dream—but it is this dream I want to realize. Life and literature combined.
Radio Play Adaptation of "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid"
Re-Imagined Radio's first ever radio adaptation of a hypertext novel. Produced by John Barber with audio design by Marc Rose, "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" is performed by The Voices, their ensemble of voice actors.
Four Poems at Poetry Hotel
Three poems ("Knuckleheads!", "September Spam Pantun," and "2034 Q&A"), and a prose-poem ("Waif OD," which first appeared in F(r)iction), have been given a room at YU News's Poetry Hotel.
Figurski at Findhorn on Acid — 20th Anniversary Edition
A mechanical pig, a commune in Scotland, the Holodeck, Spam, psychedelic drugs, a shower stall in a Florida trailer with the image of Jesus, an international spy—all this and more are back for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Richard Holeton’s "cult classic" hypertext novel.
"Postmoderne"
"Postmoderne" est un poème en prose et une saynète multimédia prenant la forme d'un diaporama en ligne, avec un texte constitué uniquement d'anagrammes provenant du mot postmoderne.
MYNEXTDOORS DOT COM
MYNEXTDOORS DOT COM THE PRIVATE LOCAL NETWORK WHERE
YOU CONNECT WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS TO CREATE AND BUILD
BETTER STRONGER SAFER HAPPIER HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
YOU CONNECT WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS TO CREATE AND BUILD
BETTER STRONGER SAFER HAPPIER HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
Art by Julian Mateus
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"Waif OD"
"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.
"Afterword(s): Take a Book/Leave a Book"
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.
Photo by Bill Collins
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LUMBER WORLD: A Novel
"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."
LUMBER WORLD: The Rejection File
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.
LUMBER WORLD: The Audiobook
A group of counterculture workers at a lumber yard battle with capitalism, family life, and modern existence. Read by Phoenix Crockett.
"Afterword(s): Take a Book/Leave a Book" (slideshow)
"The piece is symmetrically structured and frantically inventive." Multimedia slideshow poem, inspired by Joan Retallack's (c. 1990) "Not a Cage," in which she appropriates the first and last lines of books she was discarding.
Transcript: A Further Redaction of the Mueller Report
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.
Image by Flickr user trendingtopics (modified)
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In Denial: A Further Redaction of the Mueller Report
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
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