FIRST PUBLICATION
INTERACTIVE STORIES
PUBLISHED STORIES
Ophelia's Breasts
"What use were breasts if they were hard? The world was hard enough, she said, and without this sensation of softness men were doomed: 'When women become hard, there is no hope.'"
Ofelia's Breasts was originally published in Black Ice
The Burning City
"It is only now that the meaning comes to her: knots of angry black people at corners, fires burning, rocks shattering windshields, a body beaten on a street...."
The Burning City was originally published in The Spitting Image (1996).
The Night Dreaming Alms Peddler and his Uncle in the Mirror
"You are never too old to learn, she said. Besides, you can play chess.
I opened with a queen's gambit pawn...."
The Night-Dreaming Alms Peddler, written in about 1967, was published in Degenerate Prose: Writing Beyond Category (FC2/Black Ice Books, 1995)
The Store
"It is true that I am lost and alone,
etc.,
a fatal condition, there
is no escape..."
The Store was originally published in Black Ice #14
The Village
"I
had thought I was alone, the village
deserted...."
The Village was written in 1959, while I worked
on a fishing boat in the south seas. I was twenty years old. It was first published in the Santa Monica Review in 1995, thirty-six years later…
The Man Who Drank the Night
"Near a village in Borneo there lived a man with a tremendous thirst...."
The Man Who Drank the Night was written in 1963, in British North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) where I ran a small mining company. It was puglished in Meanjin, the UCR literary magazine, a few years later.
Apertures
"She is a pretty girl, of course. In the context of this story she must be pretty...."
Apertures was published in Flashpoint #2, in 1998.
Journey to Ethiopia
"The Carnival in Ethiopia began at one in the morning...."
Journey, one of my Ethiopian stories, was published in Flashpoint in 2001.
