April 2010
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February 2010
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The Fine Line Between Friends and Enemies
Author’s Note 4 February 2010. Written in fulfillment of a HI 18 midterm essay requirement.
Basically the idea was to choose two characters we had discussed so far this semester and create an exchange that was light, witty, and with as much historical accuracy as we could muster.
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January 2010
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Not This Way (5/5)
Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Part 3 here. Part 4 here.
V.
Inside the library, two twelve-year-olds each tipped a stack of dust-covered books onto a desk by the window. Sunlight streamed through, catching the motes of dust dancing in the air.
“So this is how life was, before all this happened,” noted the girl, pointing to pictures of wafer-thin laptops, tiny music players,...
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Not This Way (Part 4/5)
Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Part 3 here.
IV.
“The first batch of scientists have arrived in Moscow, and they’re getting right to work, Mr. President,” an aide informed him.
The president looked up tiredly from his desk and gave the aide a quick smile. “That’s great. I appreciate the update. Anything else?”
“Just a round-up of the day’s happenings, sir. You...
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Not This Way (Part 3/5)
Part 1 here. Part 2 here.
III.
“Sure beats walkin’,” her partner deadpanned, carefully navigating through the trash that littered the street.
She gave him a quick look before shifting her gaze back to the road, unsure of whether to laugh or to chastise him for his remark. A gust of wind sent an empty can skittering across the pothole-ridden blacktop, and she maneuvered her...
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Not This Way (Part 2/5)
Part 1 here.
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II.
If someone plotted out the attendance of churchgoers in recent history – say, the past thirty years – there probably would be a sharp increase early in the graph that more or less stayed nice and steady from that point on.
Still, he feared a decline looming as fear and helplessness beckoned, and in today’s celebration of the Holy Mass, he hoped his words...
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Not This Way (Part 1/5)
Author’s Note 29 December 2009. Written in fulfillment of a SCI 10 individual project requirement.
This story is loosely inspired by the Disney-Pixar film WALL-E. Seeing just how bad things were on Earth got me thinking about how life was like before humans continued living lazy, meaningless lives in space, and the product is this short story.
I divided it up into five parts, with each part...
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December 2009
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The Game of Choice
Author’s Note 3 March 2009. Written in fulfillment of a MA 12 short story requirement.
This was written very quickly, but I kind of like it anyway because of all the references I put into the different stories. A lot of it is television-related - the OB-GYN and his dilemma (Grey’s Anatomy), the detective and her injured partner/lover (name a cop show, any cop show - and my OTP in...