[I realized that, in challenging someone to do something that I was too afraid to do myself, I was being unfair. So. That said, here's a short story told in the first person.  Critique and ...

I know the Gloam are misunderstood and not evil, but I feel like their outsider status would lend itself to a few colorful misconceptions about their shadowy status on the edge of society...

I started out thinking of all the depressing places a Gloam could spend its time and ended up making this plucky little activist. I'd like to continue her story, but this is all we have for now....

[[I wrote a letter to a friend of mine who was in trouble; just started typing and typing until I said something that I thought might make sense. I ended up with this.]]

Before there was language, there was sound. An endless stream of noise that crashed and bubbled and whispered and sang to us every night before we went to sleep. Without langua...

Twenty-Five Reasons I (seldelaterre) Am a Little Bit of a Dick:

25. I have a speech impediment. It’s a ...

They taught us in school about creatures Jurassic

Such ancient reptilian legends are classic

But while having such k...

I’ve had the idea for these characters in my head for a while and now that the story outline is published, I can see where they can fit in with the various factions outli...

This being an opinion piece about the hows and whys of the feature/heart/rate debate that's been discussed on the site, as well as other issues I have noticed as an artist. I am and only eve...

I’m watching all of the things you do like: tapping out your ashes, thumbing through a yellow book and drinking out of glasses,
Swilling down coffees that I don’t like and makin...

Occupy sounds like a filthy word. It’s half-hiccup, half-oath, leaking history from its double-c cuts and contusions. Heaping, loaded with the weight of iron chains and bullet shells; Occu...