Category: Fiction
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Poem: A Bit of Surveillance
Berlin’s most sympathetic journal, Reality Scratch, published my UML poem “A Bit of Surveillance”. Thanks to editors Melissa Frost and Thomas McDonald and all the other authors for this great issue! This poem was constructed using UML (Unified Modeling Language), a modeling tool for software systems. To create the diagram and try and capture the current precarious moment in tech affairs, I used PlantText (the expert’s design…
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A Dutch short story with a girls’ name
Yesterday I published my short story Jantine on the Dutch blog Hard//Hoofd. The illustration was made by Dutch artist Lune van der Meulen, and I think it captures the awkwardness of the story perfectly! The introduction reads: ‘The first high school love affair, the first kiss, de first break-up: everybody has vivid memories of these…
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Newborn in print
A few months ago my short story Mister Hobson’s Mustache got selected by Writer’s Digest for publication in their 16th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection and today I got the book. My very first publication in English! Isn’t it beautiful? And, coincidentally, also my very first publication in print. Two milestones all…