"Our happiness together remains one of my most vivid and fructifying memories; when we are young and literary, we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now. I always placed a high value on friendship, but even I had no way of guessing back then that it was more ( Read more... )

Here is a little story I've written for an informal competition my friends and I are having. I still don't have any ideas for a title, so suggestions are welcome!

( story! )

Below is a section from Blood Meridian. THE WHOLE BOOK IS LIKE THIS. Holy crap.

( The company spot some Apaches in the distance on a playa. )

OK. So here is the first couple of pages of a story I am working on. Comments desired, please.

( Is/Isn't )

I've started a short story. It's about a guy who is a member of a historical re-enactment society. I think I'm going to base it on an attempt to stage a re-enactment of the Battle of Preston (notable English Civil War skirmish). His ex-girlfriend is going to be involved too ( Read more... )

I have a little black book. It's not full of girls' phone numbers, though, it's full of quotations that I pick up from books I read or that I hear mentioned somewhere. I love it, and I love adding to it. Here are some of my favourites from it:

"In the first place, you're way off when you start railing at things and people instead of yourself ( Read more... )