All the Stuff

My Collected Medium Stories

Updated irregularly by the writer.

Fiction:

Setting a Werewolf Snare

She is Fierce, this Tiger Trap

Fist Fight in the Sky: A Small Hero’s Last Will and Testament

Music:

Music: The Life of Breath

Less Fictional:

Use this (other) simple trick to become popular.

It has been a year and a day since I made a life-altering decision

When you look like me, you get an odd insight into the average male American psyche.

There’s more to comedy than making people laugh.

We think we’re so cool because we stumbled to the top of the food chain.

Use this trick to become popular.

Have you ever been entitled? I don’t know how that feels

Writing is a kind of magic, and Renee Cheung is my new favorite technomancer.

Patience is Un-American!

I Wrote Something Elsewhere that I’m Proud of and Now I’m Self-Conscious about it

I Don’t Write What I Think about Politics

Editing is More Rewarding than I Expected

Summary of Bone Jack: A Tale of Landlocked Pirates

I Know Less about Algorithms than I’d Like

Unhappy with Your Feed? Ever Thought about How the Algorithm Feels about You?

How I Know that I am Unprepared for the End of the World

Originality: A Soothing Lie

Oliver Blakemore

Avoid Cliche! Improve Your Concen — what was I saying?

I Know No One’s Asking Me, But This Is What I Really Enjoy About Medium

The Reason I Will Never be Wildly Famous

Stop Complaining about Click Bait

Mature Writing is Coffee Flavored

Dear Friends, Writers of Fictions Convenient and Eldritch

Hello, Textured World

I’m trying something new on Monday.

Today, I Age Out of The Twenty-Seven Club

On Cyborg Culture

I Said “Pick a Side” and it Made Me Uncomfortable

These “Many 1s Amount” of Scientifically Tried and Tested Methods for Coping with Medium

Rejection from The Carve Magazine’s Short Fiction Contest

The Most Important Lesson in Poetry I’ve Ever Failed to Learn is…

Civilization, n.: An Organized Panic about Bears.

What are some ways you measure success?

Feeling Overwhelmed by Mastering the Intricacies of Story Structure?

Need change?

Dear Caitlyn, of the North., I Have No Advice for You

Dear glarey woman in the Hummer, thinking…

The Internet Says I’m “Above Average”

A Trivial Game and Social Exercise

ADD: American Dream Design (My Mind is Littered with Detour Signs)

How to Frighten Your Inner Child

McCarthy and le Carre get into a Grudge Match; Meanwhile Tolkien and Hemingway Arm Wrestle to the…

Praise of “She is Fierce, This Tiger Trap”

Eye contact, questions, and tugging at strings

Dear Grandpa, Thank You for the Jungle Gyms and the Psychic Gymnastics Lessons

Imagine an Impending Threat to Your Calm…

Choose Your Nemeses with Care

Here’s a flying bear. Think Fast!

The Cultural Memory Double-Blind: A Magic Trick

“Know what’s good in life? It’s far away from you.”

They need to make that policy absolutely crystalline.

Dearest Pretty People: I gots one of my infamous ideas. Come close, listen quiet…

Fixing a Jacked-up, Unfair, Screwball Publishing Industry: The Coffee Shop Underground

Weaponized Boredom: A Brute Force Approach to So-called “Writer’s Block”

Stephen King Agrees with Me: It’s Time to Hire Assassins

The Dubious Honor of Cheesing off Christopher Moore

To Prepare for Anything from Job Interviews to Club Hopping…

I get mistaken for a woman a lot

Imagining Hamlet: In Text Messages

Introducing: (Slight) Name Change, Monthly Discussion Topics, and Web Presence

Let’s Talk about King Kong (and other morally ambiguous monsters. Like Capitalism.)

New Editor Dude of Sobremesa

Wrangling Writers is Worse than Wrangling Particularly Argumentative Cats

Replace Your Elders

I do it ’cause it’s hard (ooh, ah, missus)

Marilyn Monroe: A Witch

A Letter to Myself from Myself on the Subject of Why Stories Matter

Designing Expectations: Improve Every Interaction You Have

Hello! My name is…not usually your business…

Why is Trump Making Headway in His Campaign?

Today, the Thing I Have in Common with Bilbo Baggins and the Thing he has in Common with Hamlet

Red Pill and/or Blue Pill: Your Mind is Blown or You Live Your Life…or Both. Purple pill!

Discussion topic: Are the Majority of Medium Users Writers?

It’s the Difficult Inquiries Make Me Seize up with Indecisive Trembles

Eight Things I Do before Breakfast

Proposing a Unit of Measurement for “Difficulty”

In the Beginning of Any Campaign of Conquest, Inventory Must Be Made First of Goals and Then of…

What My Friend Who’s Writing a Story about a Fairy Godmother’s Secretary Could Learn from The…

Poesy:

Thieves of Wildness

Singe Song.

The Worst Advice I Ever Got was Also the Best Advice I Ever Got

Religion:

My Conversations with Great Buffalo and Brother Coyote…sort of

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