About Me:

"I'm a phallus in pigtails
And there's blood on my nose
And my tissue is rotting
Where the rats chew my bones
And my eye sockets empty
Seeing nothing but pain
I keep having this brainstorm
About twelve times a day"

About My Writing:

These two stories represent my very first attempts at writing. I am not, by trade, a writer nor even a person on the "humanities" side of C. P. Snow's Two Cultures. Though perhaps that is why I have chosen to write "Genre" rather than "Literature." What else needs to be said about me? My gender, race, creed, or nationality should not be a component in what enjoyment you are able to extract from what I have written, so I will not list them here. My words either move you, or they do not, but that's between you and them.

Influences:

I enjoy a degree of "realism" in my stories. For instance, I actually enjoy it when a story eschews a traditional narrative structure in favor of something anticlimactic or otherwise awkward, but only if this is in service of making the events more realistic, more quotidian. I'm a big fan of Literary Realism, Dostoevsky being a favorite author. I particularly like the way in which he writes his character's dialogue. He allows their speech to be realistic, even if they often repeat words or speak in a manner that more polished prose consciously attempts to avoid. A character of his who is plainly wrong may win an argument just because they are simply smarter or a better rhetorician than their correct and flustered opponent.

Nevertheless, I also love the fantastic; I wouldn't be writing science fiction if I didn't. I love the longing for that which is unknown or even unknowable, the lure of the mystery of what is beyond, the things that are utterly alien to our human minds, the things that make us confront our anthropomorphic biases. More precisely, I love the intersection between these two antipodes, between mundanity, the grounding way reality constantly reminds us that it is not like our fictional, storytelling conventions on the one hand, and the ever pregnant and fantastic mysteries that reality shows us, and which sci-fi at its best reminds us of on the other hand.

I enjoy a long, spanning tale, a story where characters and plots and events weave in and out, forming a complex pattern a fictional history. I would cite Babylon 5 as being a great example of this. I can't, by any stretch of the imagination, claim to live up to these influences; I am dabbler, a dilettante. I can only say that this is where my interests lay, and you are bound to find my own crude reflections of these influences in my writing.

In Progress:

Sea of Flame: Follows the story of Rachel Shepard, a Colonist, femShep, Liaramancer, who is neither paragon nor renegade, through the events of the Mass Effect series and beyond. I've taken liberties here and there with the plot of the games. The events are still very recognizable, however, you'll notice some fun differences too. I call it a "reimagining" of the Mass Effect series. And, yes, I've written a whole new ending. This is my "serious" story.

Embrace Eternity: Portrays life after the Reaper war for Spacer, femShep, paragon, Kate Shepard and her bondmate Liara T'Soni. This story is pure uncut fluff. Humorous in places, perhaps mildly sexy, this is my "just for fun" story, an attempt to give Liara and Shepard a sickeningly sweet happy ending. No refunds if you get diabetes while reading it.

My two stories are obviously VERY different from each other in tone, but they are also different in universe. I invented all kinds of facts about the Mass Effect universe to help flesh out aspects and facets that Bioware never explored in detail in any of the games, comics, or books. (e.g. facts about asari culture or biology) The details that I've invented for Embrace Eternity DO NOT necessarily translate to Sea of Flame, and vice versa. They are two completely distinct universes, each unique and standalone.

UPDATE 27/03/2013 (DD/MM/YYYY):

I am a very slow writer. My apologies to those who are waiting with bated breath. SoF remains my primary focus at this time, but I will return to EE at some point and finish it up. As it stands now it hangs at a nice "emotional" resting spot, even if some of the tensions haven't been resolved.

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A word of warning though: I can be fairly snarky and cantankerous on these mediums. I'm much less nice than I might seem. Honestly, I'm a terrible, terrible person that the world would be better off without.