Does Anybody Really Care? (About Time)

No one gives writing time.... Each and every one of us has to take it, forcibly if necessary, by wile, bribery, any method that works. You have to take the time, to weigh it against whatever else is happening, to give it up somewhere else, sacrifice time for other people, time for movies, time for television, fun, games, partying, sleep, or something. There is always some time every day to set aside and declare one's own, but it requires a lot of self-discipline to seize it and keep it.

-Kate Wilhelm, STORYTELLER

Damn straight.

No Manners

I'm reading and writing at a café and this stranger comes up to my table. He looked like a nutty professor of the Asperger's sort, the sort who couldn't process the visual cues--the laptop, the books, the papers--that said I'm busy.

"What're you working on?" he asks. I say "Stuff" as I stare in disbelief as he snatches one of the books off my table. "What kind of stuff?" he says. "Personal stuff," I say with a look on my face that says, Who the hell are you, why are you talking to me, and more importantly, why are you touching my fucking stuff?

He shrugs his shoulders and walks off as if I've put HIM off...

About

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I'm Don. I write, work, and live in a nice little college town in upstate New York. And this here is the place where I broadcast my messages of control and obedience to the masses ramble about the two areas of my life: (a) writing and (b) everything else.

Thus far, my greatest triumph has been a piece on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, a feat I've thus far been unable to replicate. That's okay because I've got some fiction online at Fantasy Magazine, Reflection's Edge, Byzarium, Six Sentences, and the occasional non-fiction thing here and there.

Questions, comments, concerns, grunts, moans, miscellaneous sounds, cries of anguish, etc. can be directed to me here:

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Bibliography

This information is now on its own static page, and will be updated there.

Short Fiction

• "Tough Love," Reflection's Edge, July 2009
• "Good for the Gander," Fantasy Magazine, May 2009
• "Threefold Path," Six Sentences, Vol. 1, April 2008
• "Self-Esteem Issues," Six Sentences, January 2008
• "Orange Sherbet and Jessica Rabbit," Six Sentences - Contest #2, September 2007
• "You Were a Champion in Her Eyes," Six Sentences, August 2007
• "Bargains," Six Sentences, July 2007
• "Right to Privacy," Six Sentences, April 2007
• "Thick and Thin," Six Sentences, March 2007
• "Code of Conduct," Six Sentences, January 2007
• "The Evil of the Recidivist," Byzarium, December 2006

Nonfiction (Selected)

• "An American Memoir," Six Sentences, July 2007
• "Es Muy Bueno: The Firefox Scrapbook Extension." American Nerd Magazine, Vol. 2, April, 2006
• "Explosive Decompression." American Nerd Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 10. April, 2006
• "Aquaman Love" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). American Nerd Magazine, Vol. 2, Issues 7-9. March, 2006
• "Over and Over Again." American Nerd Magazine. August 2005
• "The Superhuman Potential Movement," American Nerd Magazine, June 2005
  
• "A Hard Habit to Break." American Nerd Magazine, April 2005
• "Rejected York Peppermint Pattie Commercial Blurbs," McSweeney's Internet Tendency, February 2005

Updated: 1-July-2009

2006 Publications

Fiction

"The Evil of the Recidivist." BYZARIUM. December, 2006.

Essays

"The Grudge (Not the Movie)." RICEBOWLJOURNALS.ORG. October 22, 2006.

"Harsh Toke: The Declaration Regarding Material Assistance/Nonassistance to a Terrorist Organization." AMERICAN NERD MAGAZINE, VOL. 2., ISSUE 20. July, 2006.

"All Too Familiar." RICEBOWLJOURNALS.ORG. May 14, 2006.

"Ties That Bind (Both Ways)." RICEBOWLJOURNALS.ORG. April 29, 2006.

"Es Muy Bueno: The Firefox Scrapbook Extension." AMERICAN NERD MAGAZINE, VOL. 2., Issue 12. April, 2006.

"Explosive Decompression." AMERICAN NERD MAGAZINE, VOL. 2., Issue 10. April, 2006.

"Aquaman Love" (series). AMERICAN NERD MAGAZINE, VOL.2., Issues 7-9. March, 2006.

"Over and Over Again." AMERICAN NERD MAGAZINE. February, 2006 (reprint).

"A Hard Habit to Break." AMERICAN NERD MAGAZINE. February, 2006 (reprint).