Hunger

Sandwiches, in my opinion, are the perfect food. They are unnecessarily extravagant to anyone but the modern humans; as they are the combination of lang hours spent gathering wheat, grinding flour, and baking bread; killing and roasting meat; collecting fresh milk and turning it into cheese over several months; planting, growing, and then harvesting vegetables like lettuce and tomatoes; and then collecting a variety of herbs, spices, fats and vinegars all together  into a variety of sauces all for something that can be wolfed down in a half-hearted school or office lunch break.

Sometimes, though, you just want to feed something a little more feral.

Here’s Hunger.

Taking Care of Yourself

I like to imagine, that in the wider multiverse, there is a universe just to the left of my own. A place so similar that every breath is tinged with the familiar yet so  different as to be practically unimaginable. The vast majority of my stories take place there.

I also like to write stories to capture an indescribable emotion. Just to describe it in an impossible event, pull out the strings of its influence and attempt to bottle my own moments. I suppose it helps.

I also like pandan flavored snack cakes. Have you ever had a pandan flavoured snack cake. reader?

They’re good.

Here’s Taking Care of Yourself.

Note: An explanation for the complete lack of writings in the last few months. I have been writing but it’s been…jumbled. And all non-essential tasks have been put off because I just started college. Enjoy the story.

There Will Be No Dawn

I listened to the soundtrack from Hamilton the day that I wrote this. And then I was sad. And the sad just gurgled up through my system into this. What would you do on the last day? After all, it would be a day, just like any other.

I’m doing really great, actually. Something about graduating from high school gives you a glimpse of all kinds of endings, and that’s been something I’ve been wanting to put in a story for a while.

Here’s There Will Be No Dawn.

Another Excerpt From Go To Hell

I’m sorry, but I lied to you.

Go To Hell will never be funny.

However, it will be a book, and it might even be good. I’m doing Camp NaNoWriMo this July, and I’m expanding and fleshing out Go To Hell. I wrote this section and immediately thought that this was a book that deserved to be written. Which is good, because I’ve nearly abandoned this story so many times because I couldn’t quite figure out what to write about in its vast world.

So, those two parts of Go To Hell that were posted on my blog here were two thirds of the perspectives on the story, and are being edited, rearranged, and fleshed out. Here’s something completely different in the same universe, which will be about a third of the book.

If you love Go To Hell, I might try to self-publish it in a way that makes it as easy as possible for me to distribute books to readers. If you hate Go To Hell, that will still happen, but you’ll only be seeing excerpts from it one more time on my blog, so, just deal with it.

Here’s Go To Hell Excerpts, Chapter 2.

Order and Chaos

You could call this an experimental draft. It’s a draft because I think that it needs a lot of rewriting. It’s experimental because I experimented with it, because the style and the plot is unusual. It’s thirty-one pages long. And if you want to see some very good writing mixed in with some problems, I would recommend reading it. That being said, this is another one of the summer projects. I am going to work on it, fix it, make edits and changes. If you cannot wait, please, read it! And if you are a writer or reader who want to read this and give me some pointers on how to make it better, I would be very, very thankful.

Here you’ll meet Susan, a woman trapped in her city in a crisis, at the point when the world ends, and the personifications of Order and Chaos finally decide to fight. Because Order is not just organized, but restrictive and cold, and Chaos is not just rebellion but also a loss of control, and a feverish madness. My only goal here is for you to feel things.

Here’s Order and Chaos.

Go To Hell Preveiw

There was just a point in the middle of this year when I decided, “Screw making sense, I’m just going to write what I want to write.” Was this a good decision? Only time will tell.

This is a few excerpts from the little of “Go To Hell” that I finished. It’s a story about David Edwin Blanco, and how he lived his afterlife, and what Hell is. It’s an unfinished story, but I have high hopes for it. I’m going to lengthen it in words and cut out some of the convolutions of plot and give it to you late in the summer, finished.

But most importantly, the next time you see this story it will be much funnier, I promise.

Here’s a preview of Go To Hell.

Wolf

A short story about a girl who is scared and alone and different. This is one of the first finished stories that I wrote in “my style”, or the style that I’ve been using all this year. It’s…a bit strange, but so is everything I write.

I find that people usually have one of three reactions to my writing. They either love it and think that it’s fantastically creative, hate it and refuse to read more than a paragraph or two, or they just don’t really know what’s going on.

But maybe that just means I should stop taking people from their own houses, dragging them into my basement and forcing them to read my writing.

Here’s Wolf.

Utopia: The Story of the Story

So for my senior project I, by myself, made an hour long movie. This isn’t something that is physically possible, so I put a lot of the writing grunt work in during my 3rd period of self-directed writing. This story became this movie. And if you want to see the best possible version of the story, where the ideas and emotions that I was trying to convey are conveyed to the best of my ability, and where the work is the closest to my original vision for the story, then just read the story version. Watch the movie if you want to see what the end product is when a no-budget filmmaker is given a few months and tries (and tries valiantly)  to create an hour-long intellectual sci-fi…thing. You will see the learning on the screen.

So here it is, the story of Utopia.

If you would like to judge me for my screenwriting abilities, here’s a screenplay. Utopia Screenplay (Warning, that screenplay is fifty-one pages long.)

I hope you enjoy Utopia!