In The Chair

Clipped (1/30/04)

These pieces are random excercises, unpolished/unfinished works I've started on and stuff I did during High School and College that I'm not ready to stick elsewhere. If there's enough interest, I may take the kick in the pants and bump one of these to another catergory.

10 Reasons I Should Be Dating More …Than Never *NEW*
is a list I threw together to keep myself entertained while I was frustrated. (Stuy/Sr.)

10 Steps to Heartwrenching Want *NEW*
is one of those get-this-off-my-chest-just-to-do-it kind of things. (Stuy/Sr.)

25 Words *NEW*
is an exercise from my freshman seminar, Leaving Adolescence. We had to write a memoir from first-person, limited third-person omniscient and third-person omniscent perspectives. (UNC/Fr.)

The 2001 AL Cy Young *NEW*
is a rant on why Roger Clemens shouldn't have won this award. (UNC/Fr.)

Airbrush
is an exercise from my Intermediate Fiction Writing class with Dan Wallace, in which I had to write about a loner who constantly brushes his teeth attending a monster truck rally near a lighthouse. (UNC/Jr.)

Alone in the Middle *NEW*
is a paper I wrote on Midnight's Children for my Great Books class with Mr. Grossman. This was the first "Man, I can really relate to this character" paper I wrote for the class. I curtailed that series at two. (Stuy/Sr.)

The Almost-But-Not-Quite Annotated Hamlet *NEW*
is the final paper from Great Books. I got real lazy at the end. Or I just procrastinated hardcore and had no time. Probably both.

Batting 1.000 *NEW*
is the first in a series of two second-person shorts I wrote before entering college. (Kutz/Sum. '01)

Ben Couch, Jack Burden, and a Nice Healthy Dose of Ah Well *NEW*
followed Alone in the Middle in my Great Books MICRRTTC series. (See above for explanation.) (Stuy/Sr.)

Blowin' Smoke *NEW*
was an exercise for Leaving Adolescence. We had to write a monologue and read it in class. North Carolina wasn't quite ready for this one at the time. (UNC/Fr.)

Burn Scars
is raw, and needs more going on to qualify as a "story." It, along with a suggestion from Dan, gave me the inspiration for Tinted Visions. (UNC/Jr.)

Feeling Bored, Will McKay and How to Find a Calling
(An Interview with Richard J. Moore) *NEW*
is the culminating project from Leaving Adolescence, an ethnography that had to be presented in the class. I've fallen out of touch with Richie since, but I hope he's doin' how he do, wherever he's at.

Chillin' Out *NEW*
is a random story starter I never came back to. That might be because it's not so good. (UNC/Fr. or So.)

Country Summer *NEW*
is a clip from my file of "Stuff inspired by Sam Bichler." Other pieces from this series include Playin' Games and Summer Twilight. (Kutz/Sum '01)

The Court *NEW*
is my third "fiction" story from Short Stories with Mrs. Fletcher, the class that kick-started the writing career. Fiction is enclosed with quotes because this is a "thinly-veiled memoir." Really, it all happened except the end, which I made up, which I'm sure is hard to tell. (Stuy/So.)

A Day in the Life *NEW*
is a story devoid of conflict I turned in to Mr. Grossman at some point during the Great Books course. (Stuy/Sr.)

Dreaded
was written after my trip to Copenhagen, when Greg and I went to a reggae club a random Dane named Samuel told us about. I actually danced with this girl, but we didn't talk. I want to finish the story, but need context.

Fantasy Football *NEW*
is a random story exercise in parallelism I wrote for kicks one lazy Saturday. (Stuy/Sr.)

Just Another Fight *NEW*
was an all-dialogue assignment I turned in for Beginning Fiction Writing with Bland Simpson. I was a lil' heated at an ongoing situation and needed to vent. (UNC/Fr.)

How to Buy Your First Porno Mag *NEW*
is a random jag from the second-person series. (Stuy/Sr.)

Generation Y and the Perpetual Nag *NEW*
is an attempt at a short story for Great Books that yet again ended up memoir. I seemed to enjoy writing about myself in that class. (Stuy/Sr.)

My Side of the Tracks *NEW*
is an exercise from Beginning Fiction Writing. We had to describe our hometown/neighborhood by starting from one place. (UNC/Fr.)

The One-Tap Turnaround *NEW*
is the second in my two-part second-person shorts series. (Kutz/Sum. '01)

Playin' Games *NEW*
is a story/memoir I'm pretty sure I wrote for Beginning Fiction Writing, but distinctly recall Ms. Wagner-Martin offering feedback on, meaning it could be from Leaving Adolescence. Really, I got nothin. (As I finish compiling this, I've realized it had to be BFW. For reference.--ed.) (UNC/Fr.)

Points to Ponder *NEW*
is an quickie exercise from Short Stories. We had a bunch of one-page assignments to turn in, in the hope that we'd find a nugget somewhere. (Stuy/So.)

Proof *NEW*
was my writing credo, as of Fiction Writing with Mrs. Fletcher. (Stuy/Jr.)

Prospects [My Sound and the Fury] *NEW*
is a story written between the lines of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, from the perspective of Quentin in the Sound and the Fury. It's like Midrash for the American Canon. This was an assignment for Great Books. (Stuy/Sr.)

Repercussions *NEW*
is a short story from my Fiction Writing class focus on writing as much basketball as possible. Mrs. Fletcher was a trooper. (Stuy/Jr.)

Retroactive Demand *NEW*
is an exercise from Beginning Fiction Writing. We had to write up an event. (UNC/Fr.)

Selling Short [The Short Story] *NEW*
is the short story that kicked off my Fiction Writing basketball binge. All the later ones fit in this universe. (Stuy/Jr.)

Selling Short [The Novel Section] *NEW*
is the culminating novel section of Fiction Writing, as well as the capstone to the basketball binge. (Stuy/Jr.)

Shootin Stars through the Rejuvenation Machine *NEW*
a rant in support of Stephon Marbury I wrote the season after the Jason Kidd trade. I stand by this to this day. (Spr. '02)

Steel Fuses [The Inspiration] *NEW*
is an exercise from Beginning Fiction Writing that layed the groundwork for the play and one-act (Feelin' It) that would later develop from this universe. Looking back, Gerard was probably the dude Blowin' Smoke. (UNC/Fr.)

Subway Mugging *NEW*
is an exercise from Short Stories. We had to write about a moment that scared us.

Tequila Sunrise *NEW*
is a memoir from Leaving Adolescence. If you want to know how my family do, check this out. (UNC/Fr.)

Train-of-Thought Basketball *NEW*
is a starter piece from Short Stories. This developed into The Court. (Stuy/So.)

Turnover *NEW*
is a mini-memoir from Leaving Adolescence on my lil' bro and me getting over the not-talking kick he went on. (UNC/Fr.)

Summer Twilight *NEW*
is a mini-memoir from Leaving Adolscence that peaks waaaay too early. Anna Avery, wherever you are, I miss you, I hope you're well and I hope that poem I sent the next summer wasn't too intense. (UNC/Fr.)

The Way We Are *NEW*
is the second of my three stories from Short Stories. Again, thinly-veiled memoir. My high school teachers must have thought I was the hugest egomaniac of all time. On a sidenote, you might notice the first story of my career, Perspective is Everything, is missing. It's around the house somewhere. I'll dig it up sometime. (Stuy/So.)