I recently did a publuc reading at The Greenhouse in Show Low, Az. with the Lakeside Writer’s Group. I took the #1 and #11 spots, reading my crowd-pleaser “Self Sucking Strife” and the brand new “Death vs. Deep Blue.” I did edit the pieces for live performance to minimize audience boredom. The stories allowed me to use the full range of my vocal talent, thus insulting the Russians, Effeminate English Generals, Peter Lorre, Bostonian News Reporters, and the Russians again with my impersonations of them. Links to pictures from the reading and the stories are below. ~HD
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Archive for April, 2007
Reading: Death and Strife Strike the White Mountains
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Earthenware Expansion
Thursday, April 5th, 2007After a few months of toil, the Earthenware Expansion is finished. It’s an appropriate length for a book, so we’ll call it my third. It will join my other two manuscripts, “!0 Tales…” and “The Coconut and the Swan” that are currently gathering dust on my shelves.
Earthenware started as a light, happy project, but evolved into a collapsed neutron star of cynicism from which no positivity can escape. For those who don’t know, it’s a “make your own adventure” book, where the vital decisions of the protagonist are made by you, the reader. Using the premise of a simulation Earth created by Martian colonizers, the central themes are iconoclasm and ridicule of the self-important. Despite this, Earthenware still maintains a high level of humor and the themes can be largely ignored.
I added a new, more menacing graphic to the pre-existing, Earthenware online, but I won’t be adding any more content. Consider it a typo-ridden, teaser trailer to book version.
~HD