This is an archive of stuff that I've written and put on the web, or that I consider unpublishable for one reason or another. A lot of it is pretty bad, especially the early stuff, so read at your own risk. It's interesting to me, at least from a 'morbid curiosity' point of view -- my early writing seems painfully amateurish to me now, which makes me wonder if my current writing will seem that way in the future. Anyway, enjoy. Everything on this page is my original work, except where noted.

• Short Stories
  
  
  • The Changing of the Guard
    1,000 words
    One of the early, early stories, and still actually not bad. It's based on actual people I saw the summer I worked in New York city, which as we all know is filled with weird stuff.
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  • Conversations with Inanimate Objects
    2,700 words
    I wrote this for a fiction workshop class in the spring of '02. It didn't quite become what I wanted to, but I find the tone kind of cute.
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  • Einstein Versus Satan
    2,000 words
    The first story I ever wrote! I must have been all of seventeen at the time. Given that, it's not bad -- the concept actually kind of works. Maybe someday I'll go back and rework the execution. That would be nice and nostalgic.
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  • I Like The Dark
    1,500 words
    A nice depressing story that I wrote in all of 40 minutes, after riding the train home from NYC.
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  • Just Desserts
    500 words
    A joke story/drabble. Moderately clever.
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  • Turnabout
    2,500 words
    A parody/joke story on spy stories and roleplaying. I found it funny, anyway.
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• Novellas
  
  I did a lot of novella-writing when I was younger, usually because I had a novel-sized plot but not yet the courage/inclination to actually write a novel. Some of these have some interesting concepts, which I may steal for future work. Who knows?
  
  
  • Krys
    16,000 words
    This one is a sort of desert-airship world. I think I'd been reading Timothy Zahn and was eager to do some space-opera-like stuff. The bad guys are pretty generic, which is dull. I like the name Krys, though, and I've used it a bunch of times.
    
    Krys, the daughter of a pirate captain, is captured by a young officer. Before they can return to civilization, they find out that a malicious entity called the Dark has returned to the world and must be stopped.
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  • Layers of Reality
    20,000 words
    This was actually the first lengthy piece I ever did, and it's not so bad, considering. I still like the idea of multiple virtual realities 'stacked' on top of each other, inspired somewhat by The Thirteenth Floor. Xyth is very much the typical mercenary hero, and it's narrated in tough-guy first person. I was reading Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett at the time.
    
    Xyth, a mercenary from the upper Layers, accepts a contract for some bodyguard work from a scared angel. Little did he know he would be drawn into a plot involving the greatest wizard of all time and mad computer virus bent on wiping out all of creation.
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  • Mirrorside
    18,000 words
    I love Neil Gaiman, sometimes too much. This basically turned into a (bad) version of Neverwhere in many respects, including my poor parody of Croup and Vandemar. And Dave, our hero, is really dull. Still a few good bits. I wrote the ending specifically because I was disgusted by the ending to Escaflowne.
    
    Dave, alone and bored in New York City, follows a strange girl through a mirror into an alternate fantasy universe, where he finds that he's taken the place of a famous hero. But his entry has allowed something horrible to slip through, as well...
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  • A Touch of Darkness
    28,000 words
    Lani, a vampire girl, starts out looking for a rogue necromancer and ends up getting embroiled with an ancient evil and -- worse -- heroes.
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• Novels
  
  A whole novel, free of charge! Imagine that. ^_^
  
  
  • The Reality Hackers
    100,000 words
    The first novel I actually finished. It seems painfully bad and derivative to me now. Still, finishing it felt like a big accomplishment, and there's some actual character in this. When you read it, it's important to remember I wrote this before the Matrix came out, because they stole a bunch of my ideas. The biggest influence, by far, was Rurouni Kenshin, which I was watching at the rate of about two episodes per day during the time I was writing this.
    
    Mya, high school student and amateur computer hacker, finds out that her exploits have gotten her kicked out of her universe and targeted by the sadistic swordsman Cryos. While on the run, she befriends Kazar, leader of a group called the Knights who struggle against the Cryos and the Black Dragons for survival. Mya swears revenge against Cryos, but stopping him and taking down the Dragons will require the help of the greatest swordsmen of all time, the legendary Sal'yar Tsara -- Grinning Death.
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• Fan Fiction
  
  Yes, I went through a fanfic phase. Ultimately I decided it was kind of a waste of time, but some decent writing came out of it.
  
  ...yes, I wrote in the Sailor Moon fandom. I have no idea why -- I watched the whole series in Japanese, so I figured I might as well do something with it. Something like that, anyway...
  
  This should go without saying, but I lay no claim to the non-original characters in these stories.
  
  
  • Sailor Stars
    2,500 words
    This is an alternate-universe short. It's a cute idea, though I freely admit I'd been reading too much Watchmen at the time.
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  • Sailor Moon: Gray
    81,000 words
    This was my first foray into fanfic, produced mostly during winter '01-'02. The observant will notice that half the characters are from the Unforgiven universe, but they work surprisingly well here. I still consider this piece some of my better writing -- Hotaru and Ami both came out very well.
    
    A brief summary: Two years after the defeat of Galactica, the Sailor Senshi are having trouble adjusting to peacetime. Ami is no longer sure what to do with her life, and Rei has turned her sights on the city's Yakuza and other human criminals. The arrival of the master vampire Alexander Resh throws things into confusion, and matters get even worse when the nearly omnipotent Unforgiven Jahara arrives in pursuit.
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  • Sailor Moon: End of Days
    107,000 words
    This is my sequel to SM: Gray. I got frustrated with the original novel I was writing at the time (sometime in '02) and did this instead. It came out okay, though I personally am not satisfied with the ending. The point of view was an experiment -- three first-persons in strictly rotating chapters. It works in some places, but ended up being overly confining in others.
    
    Three years after SM: Gray, Ami and Hotaru return to Earth to find it occupied by the Sa'an. They face the difficult task of finding their scattered friends and defeating the most succesful empire in the history of the multiverse. Meanwhile, a young girl named Tsunami discovers her own powers.
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  • Cynic
    73,000 words
    This isn't strictly fan-fiction, but rather genre parody -- it takes place in a vaguely Sailor Moon-themed universe. It worked out pretty well, though it's not a happy story, and I feel like the ending is fitting. A bunch of people didn't like the end, though. The story features Youma Unreal Tournament, which was a concept I came up with a long time ago for a comic strip that never happened.
    
    A girl named Mary quietly defends the Earth against the demons, who are getting increasingly desperate. One demon, Kei, decides she'd rather make peace; in the meantime, Mary's best friend Robyn finds herself recruited to defeat an "evil" magical girl.
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  • On The Couch
    1,200 words
    A very short Hellsing fic, done in response to a dare to write a vaguely plausible Alucard/Integra scene. I don't think I quite succeeded, but it's kind of funny.
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