Mush

I am childish in my deviance;
chaotic, but obvious.
I am all buttons and knobs,
exposed,
to any passing stranger’s whims.
I cannot let you in
or you will play around
and change
these precise adjustments
these delicate proportions
of love and greed,
lust and anger, joy and fear,
that function;
that, if nothing else, survive.
Cupid waits for me at the bottom of the garden.
He is less willful [...]

An Experiment

Transcript:
I lie in bed and try to remember the scent of your skin
as I press up against it oh so greedily
but I can’t;
your face is flickering
and everything else has already faded away
and now I am alone
I should feel free but I feel scared instead;
they tell me that I’m supposed to, that [...]

Journalistic Integrity

This is the story that I wrote for the Shaastra Online Science Fiction Writing contest this year in the Short Sketch category. It got picked first by Cory Doctorow . It’s not very,er, scientific, as you might notice. But that’s not supposed to be the important part, anyway

An asteroid is about [...]

Fever Dreams

Mad dash, a torrent
drenched within and without, tear
clingy clothes, half-breathed.

Unicorn Waltz

Wrote a poem in about 20 minutes on, well, unicorns. I’m too scared to put it up here. It’s on my deviant art page.
I’m not not putting it up here because people will think I’m a bad poet- I don’t write poetry anyway, except for yesterday’s sudden impulse, so I don’t have much ego associated [...]

Creative Writing

For those of you who didn’t know, I’m one of the coordinators for Creative Writing for Saarang, and this is the obligatory “online contest’s started, please send in your entries” post.
Online Creative Writing
There are three categories. Two are up already: Three Phase, and Eliminate a Little Anarchy. Three Phase is where you (possibly as [...]

Just had an Idea

Which I’m sure has been tried before. I want to write a fairly linearly played-out novel-or an outline, more likely- and then start rewriting it in reverse chronological order, trying to keep as many of the surprises or twists or whatever hidden for as long as possible, but without altering the plot/storyline(as far as possible). [...]

Writing

I know I’m far too young for this part, but I want to write a story with a major character “who drifted through high school, went to community college, dropped out and had a kid, then years later matured enough to return to school, got a degree (in physics, gargoyle studies, bootyology, whatever) and then [...]

A Day in the Life of…

I’m sorry, I couldn’t actually write a new chapter/story/whatever- I did something else,though, I came up with a storyline for an entire novel, although its by no means finished, I’m sort of at the three-quarter mark right now. I like it, I think it’s nice-can’t say more than that about my own ideas, of course- [...]

Prologue

He closed his eyes. Why wasn’t it coming? Golden sand, the coral blue sea, food and drink without limit…
“Hey.”
A beautiful woman pressed up against him, whispering sweet nothings in his ear…
“You can’t keep doing this, you know.”
Beautiful woman turning into bulky middle aged man, sweet nothings turning into threats and warnings, shouts and screams, the [...]