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Anybody's Moon appears in the February 2008 edition of 971 MENU and the story Reality TV was published online in Issue 47 of The Barcelona Review. A couple of reviews of short fiction collections are online at The Short Review. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers and My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro. The website features original reviews of short fiction collections, written by reviewers who are also short story writers. I who...? is a collaboration with the artist Randy Nehila, which appears in Volume 2 of infLect.  Other very short fiction is included at fifty word fiction.
The Blind Tiler's Assistant is a fictional reflection upon the nature of collaborative digital creation. It was published in February 2001 in frAme5:Digital Labour, for Love or Money. Days Out 4Writers Junction are online reports of offline events. The first three include my accounts of a Writing Day in Swindon on 4 May, as part of the Mslexia Ignite The Writer Roadshow, plus Helen Dunmore, Jackie Kay and Ali Smith speaking this year about the short story and a presentation by David Crystal on Language and the Internet at the Bath Literature Festival in 2002.
Claims is a Mutual Web entertainment created by Randy Adams, Everdeen Tree and Pauline Masurel. It set sail in July 2002 at Incubation2 with a demonstration of Claims Version 0.0 and various claims (which may or may not hold water) were made at that time. Then there are various activities in MOOs. These included contributions to areas in and around The Boulevard des Desseins project at Lingua MOO, such as The House of Words events, and the Lost Property Office. Anyone with a MOO character is invited to @create $thing called peace. There was also a Dual Sestina Duel, devised with Bernard Cohen, involving a pair of obsessive bots called clamjam and balagan who could be found in the trAce meeting room at Lingua. ...maze of her... is a regenerating collage of a single day. It was originally written in response to an exercise at the trAce WebBoard and was included in Idiolect 5, edited by Lewis LaCook. A Speedy Solstice Stichomither, written by Maev, appeared in Alan McDonald's The Longest Day: The Shortest Day which was compiled at Summer Solstice 2000. Contract was written with Carrie McMillan, on 24 November 1999 as part of Bernard Cohen's SpeedFactory project at trAce and leads into Contract:Expand, which includes text from most of the participants in SpeedFactory. The task of putting some proper acknowledgements on this piece has the distinguished status of being my most extreme demonstration to date of procrastination in the development of a piece of online writing. Miscellany is a loosely furled batch of fictions, written since around 1995 and made available online in their most recent revisions. I do this simply because I feel like it and because I can. So there they are. The selection and contents are subject to occasional alteration at whim. I have also floated words in an assortment of collaborative projects online over the years, including Michael Szpakowski's project, imagining ourselves, The Plant and Garden Collection of Margaret Penfold, QUICK-SHIFT, the cyber-kitchen, Clean at The Women's Library, the Imaginary Post Office run by PostMaster Randy Adams, Under the Umbrella with other students at Reading University's School of Continuing Education and various trAce projects such as The Eclipse Quilt, Home and Alan Sondheim's Lost project. |
