| Story Bits |
| These are various scenes I have written at different times
that could
become finished short stories or part of a larger story. All material
on this page and this whole site comes under a
CreativeCommons.org license which allows it to be republished for
non-profit purposes. I would love to include some images in this part of the site. Pictures of the characters as different people see them and illustrations of bits of actions from the scenes would be great. If you are an artist and any of these fragments inspire you please email me and if I like your art I'll include it here. If any links don't work or it looks crappy and unreadable on your browser please let me know so I can try to fix it. |
| The Scenes: Bridge Beer Mac Mute Outranet |
Terrorist Guide The original idea behind this story was that the main character Mewkis is brought up on an unbelievably dangerous and violent planet which offworlders find inexplicably fascinating. He graduates from a college which trains people as guides for these misguided tourists but becomes bored with the life of a terrestrial guide. He discovers the Outranet and retrains as an interspace navigator. He joins the pseudosub 'the Neon' under Caplain Morrison whose is hunting a white dwarf (in pseudospace the vast, cosmic intelligences of intersteller bodies manifest as creatures or characters too) and has travelled far beyond the space he is familiar with. The second two scenes written in the first person are part of an older body of work of which much was lost or destroyed by my pet rats before I had a chance to type it up. The first scene is strongly influenced by the original Time Slice - now Inter(sur)face - scenario in which communication between planets was possible only through virtual reality conduits which needed the combined intelligence of a crew of people to maintain a clear signal - experienced by the crew as a sort of cyberspaceship. The fourth scene is a small fragment which was originally written for Time Slice but has more to do with the Terrorist Guide scenario. |
Music:
Like a lot of people I like to have music on when I write and often get story ideas when I'm listening to music. Some of the artists that have inspired the story fragments above are:
Like a lot of people I like to have music on when I write and often get story ideas when I'm listening to music. Some of the artists that have inspired the story fragments above are:
| From Aotearoa: Avotor - 'Looming' (Syncline, part of Kog Transmissions) Mother Guru - self-titled (self-released - go Nelson rock!) Otautahi Allstars (Central Records) Asphalt (big ups to my friends Clare and Darcy!) and Emu Super Sausage (Welly funk/ ska band - awesome live!) TrinityRoots Black Seeds Salmonella Dub Pitch Black Fat Freddy's Drop Concorde Dawn - "Morning Light" WBC - skanking Auckland ska band |
From Further Afield: Scorn (Earache) Regurgitator - 'Tu Plang' Dirty Three Citizen Fish Fishbone Reel Big Fish Orbital - 'Snivelization' and 'In Sides' Against All Authority Bad Brains - 'Rise' (from the excellent "Insanity" compilation) |
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"Anarchism's great project is to
dissolve the asymmetry of power. How? There are thousands of
alternatives and there is not only one solution. To advance 'one'
solution would be a doctrine of power, a manifestation of power." - Venezuelan University Academic Alfredo Vallota quoted from El Libertario |
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