A trove of medium-sized writings.
My short stories
A while ago I posted one version of a QML user story. But that term is quite vague, and so here’s the other ‘user story’ which came to mind. Since it uses APIs new in 5.1, it was delayed to allow those APIs to stabilize.
I strongly support gender equality, but it bugs me that sometimes modern gender equality is mis-interpreted as pro-woman. Political correctness also bugs me, particularly when people try to rewrite the English language because some words or expressions might be deemed offensive. Leaving aside for a moment that being offended is a state of mind in the reader, a language is not suitably expressive if it cannot provoke an emotional response (including offending people). I thus will try to provoke an emotional response with this short speech, modeled as being by and for some of the people who bug me in a non-insectoid way.
I just went and did a bit of interviewing in the US, the time on plane flights was enough for me to write a short story on the subject. I had been researching the issue for some time as well in preparation, which ended up more useful for humor writing than for actual interviewing. Thus it’s based on the stereotypes, not on my actual experiences (except that the Zerg were on my mind after one particular interview 😉 ).
Filling out my backlog took an obvious and lengthy pause due to illness. Fortunately the fevered imaginings of a man on his death bed is perfect for creative writing; pity I only had a cold. It still led to some fresh material, and here it is.
Note: This parody assumes a very good knowledge of the actual Miss Saigon story. I wrote it while I was in the ensemble for a performance, so that level of knowledge will assuredly suffice.
This story is taking a stance (albeit one open to interpretation) on “the empire”, which is always evil in Sci-fi.
The following short story was my entry for the Blizzard Writing Contest 2011. It’s set in the Starcraft universe, focusing exclusively on the Zerg. Needless to say, it didn’t win, but Zerg players are used to being unpopular 😉 .
One day I was wondering why I don’t like tweeting, and I think it’s because I don’t like restricting myself to 140 characters. Every time…