: About Me

"Writer's block during the conceptual phase of an autobiography for a citizen journalism site is a bad, bad start."

My passion is ...

photography.

I know too much about ...

thermodynamics.

My parents always told me ...

"Always do the right thing." No, wait. That was Spike Lee.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be an elegant jewel thief.

Why I write ...

I write because not writing is like not breathing: stupid and painful.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

another rainy night...

My first job ...

was at a Snapps Drive-thru!

My best moment ...

is always yet to come. Shouldn't it be?

My inspiration ...

never ceases to amaze me.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Sensuality

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These halls stretch on forever at night. You would say they were empty, except for the cold fluorescence and the electric hum that falls gracefully from them, almost palpable. Silent wraiths pass one another in the night, a momentary disturbance in the sterile ether. Nothing more. So goes the night shift in this place. Most of the time. As full dark approaches, that most muted of moments before 3 a.m., fatigue threatens to take them; sights and sounds merge nearly to one and are lost in the soft echoes of voices more expected than heard. She sees him at the opposite end of the hall, bathed...

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