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Posted by Jai Narayan on August 24, 2004, at 20:47:09
You had mentioned that you had written other work.
Are they poems or short stories?
When's the last time you were writing and is it possible to have a taste of it?
Posted by Atticus on August 25, 2004, at 9:39:03
In reply to Atticus, posted by Jai Narayan on August 24, 2004, at 20:47:09
Actually, a lot of my older writing is lost. I didn't back it up, and the hard drive on my old Mac got flash-fried by a power surge (the surge-protector strip didn't do a damn bit of good). There was a short story that I was struggling through in the weeks before the suicide attempt. It's an allegorical horror story that says a lot about how I perceived the city and my relationship to it at that time. Due to its length, I'd have to post it in installments, and with the caveat that I was heading for the suicide attempt with increasing momentum as I put it out. The narrator, my proxy, is not a very nice guy in this piece. I guess from a clinical standpoint, it's an interesting glimpse of just how dark a place I was in at the time. It's called "Hungry Pavement." Let me take another look at it and think on this. :) Atticus
Posted by Jai Narayan on August 25, 2004, at 22:42:27
In reply to Re: Atticus » Jai Narayan, posted by Atticus on August 25, 2004, at 9:39:03
Yes please ponder on that. is this piece as riviting as your current work?
So you are a senior editor....
You have captured my curiosity.
what did Alice say?
to capture my curiosity is to capture me. I am way too curious.
But for you I'd go the distance.
I love the installment idea. It's of course totally up to you.
I will ponder on you.
Posted by Atticus on August 26, 2004, at 4:02:01
In reply to Re: Atticus, posted by Jai Narayan on August 25, 2004, at 22:42:27
Honestly, Jai, given that I wrote it about three weeks before slashing my wrist, I'm not even sure the piece is coherent, given my rapidly deteriorating mental state at the time. It'll be strange to read it again with lucid eyes. :) Atticus
Posted by Atticus on August 26, 2004, at 13:21:26
In reply to Re: Atticus, posted by Jai Narayan on August 25, 2004, at 22:42:27
OK, I decided to take the plunge (I've never had enough brains not to, I guess). "Hungry Pavement, Part 1" has been posted in all its gruesome glory. It's very, very strange to read something I wrote knowing that at the time I wrote it, my out-of-whack brain chemistry would lead me to slit my wrist three weeks later. For me, it adds a level of understanding as to where this thing came from, since I really had given up genre fiction in middle school.
Atticus, who isn't at all sure how this story will go over
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