Category: Fiction
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American Akira: whitewashing, identification and appropriation.
The following is cross-posted from my Race, Gender and the Media class blog. I’m having a great time in that class. I tend to dominate in-class discussion, usually to answer misconceptions brought on by privelidge deniers, A few people in the class must think I’m a jerk. I blame the great coffee across the street, […]
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Return Of the Hadi
Here is a short story I started a few years ago, put off and finished for a writing class last semester. I had uploaded it to the net before, but apparently it didn’t make the transfer to Mindqila. Worse, my original blog at livejournal didn’t seem to have it (Clever bastards. I’m glad I left […]
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2046½, Chapter 4
Sorry for making you all wait for the next installment, been busy volunteering at Mom’s office.-SR My eyes open at 1:01pm. I don’t get off the couch until 1:05. I spent most of the morning writing after I got home from closing the bar. I walk to the window and press it. As I incline […]
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2046½, Chapter 3
A long and arduous rappel climb later, Huojin is leaning against the gray wall near his client’s window with his feet resting on a conveniently placed row of bricks. He notices somebody stepping outside of the apartment from the front entrance below him. A small flicker of red light flashes near the antlike figure, and […]
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Untitled Short Story
I woke up from a dream. Just spent the last couple hours thinking up a short story based on it. Here it is. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas.-SR I’ve been shot. That old hag tried to silence me with bullets. That’s what I get for calling Jeanne Chavanoz out on my blog for smearing my allies […]
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2046½, Chapter 2
Still want some feedback on this. Anybody there? -SR My watch beeps at midnight. Break is over. I get up from the closed toilet seat and stash my notebook behind me under my shirt. It’s time once again to serve drinks for Jamaica Night patrons at Curitiba-R in Wan Chai. I could write in the […]
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2046½, Chapter 1
This is a work in progress. Feedback is encouraged. Nope. Feedback is desperately needed. Chapter 1 Huojin Tan’s watch beeps at midnight. He is trying to study a blueprint of a client’s apartment. This is a redundant model of apartment in a section of town where tenants can’t afford to buy the upgrades that come […]