(There are so few of these simply because I rarely finish them. I usually only finish works longer than poems when forced to for a class, and this limits their content and size to the constraints imposed by my teachers. This is also why all the stories here are so academic. I have so many more creative, half-finished things that I'd really like to finish. Maybe I'll just stick some of them up as they are some time.)
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Stories and Fables
(sadly, all derivative at the moment)
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Windchasers - a fictional essay
(Really a short story and an essay in one. One of my longer and less clumsy attempts to integrate philosophy into a readable story.)
More or Less of Happiness
(Inspired by Thomas More's "Utopia," this is a story about a man who visits that land and finds it to be less than ideal. The story in this case runs away with the philosophy, and it gets pretty bizarre both in imagery and meaning by the end.)
the Book on the Need For a New City
(inspired by Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies. Applies the same story format to tackle anti-gay sentiments in the Bible.)
Clarion's Call
(A fairy tale about the terrible state of modern education and why homeschooling can be better. I had to write the intro explaining it for a class, but I'm not sure it needs it.)
the Squirrel and the Monkey
(A textbook fable, including the obligatory heavy-handed moral message, though I refuse to state it explicitly at the end.)
The Robber Bridegroom: The Bridegroom's Tale
(A retelling of what was a simple horror story about a bunch of cannibals from the "bad guy" perspective. A common but fun twist for any excessively polarized tale.)
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