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Pitman’s Sampler
The various pieces I’ve written are somewhat scattered, and not just in terms of their
conceptual organization. The texts physically reside here and there about the net. Some of them are web-accessible but
I don't know that search engines are up to searching for poems yet and I've written way too much stuff on the net, so
I can't just call up all
of my writings and expect to do manual sifting.
What you'll find here is a subset of what I've done—a sampler.
Short Stories
- “That’s How I Operate”
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Written in January, 2009, in response to a contest
run by Gary Justis at Open Salon. This entry tied (3 ways)
for “first runner up” in the contest.
- 101 Words: Late-Night Discovery, 1975
- Written in November, 2008, in response to a challenge at Open Salon to write a short story of exactly 101 words.
As it happens, this story is non-fiction.
Comics
Note that the Gray Matters series is humor or political commentary probably primarily of interest
to Open Salon members, since it comments specifically on practices of that forum. The characters are “gray heads,” the default avatar assigned to members who have
not taken the trouble to give themselves a real avatar. They are, as such, both anonymous and a kind of EveryMan.
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Gray Matters: We've Got That Covered
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Written in November, 2009 as part of a collaborative blog post,
Reaching for the Open Sky.
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Gray Matters: Let OS Be Your Last Battlefield
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Written in May, 2009 in response to
a post by Rob St. Amant.
Poetry
- To write a poem
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Written December 21, 2009
in response to a comment on a related poem.
- Mom watches over me
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Written in May, 2009 for Mother's Day.
- Nudity (now with Haiku)
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Written in April, 2009 in response to something
o'stephanie
(a fellow blogger at Open Salon) had said.
- What Love Endures
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Written in years before its eventual February 2009 publication,
addressing the aftermath of sexual abuse.
- Happy Birthday, Karen
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Written in February, 2009, to celebrate the continued life
of my friend Karen Novak.
- A Christmas Peril
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Written originally in December, 2008, this is seasonal poetry with a somewhat heavy-handed
environmental twist that you can probably see even in the title. I updated the
piece in 2009 to improve the meter of certain lines. The updated piece was also featured at
PalTalk News Network.
- Life’s Scattered Moments
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Written in October, 2008, looking back at old photos of places I’ve visited.
- Haiku Challenge: Kent’s Life
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Written in November, 2008, as part of a challenge to write a haiku summarizing one’s life.
- The URLs of the Mind
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Written in October, 2008, reflecting on the texture of memory.
- Political Haiku
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Written in September, 2008 for the US Presidential Election of 2008.
- What Love Endures
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Written perhaps around 2002 or 2003, this
very short story (146 characters long)
was not published until February, 2009, when I
repackaged it as a Valentine’s Day poem.
The subject matter is mature, but I hope not offensive.
- The Tragedy of Billy and Mac
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Written in June, 1999 as part of my Another Way Out series of parodies of CBS's The Young and the Restless.
This may only make sense if you're a long-time viewer of that show. It's a synthesis of one of their
plotlines with Romeo and Juliet—in iambic pentameter, of course!
Parody
- AnotherWayOut.com
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A few years back, I used to write parodies of The Young and the Restless
on a more-or-less weekly basis. Highlights:
Other
See also my publications page,
which mentions a number of non-fiction writing categories—politics, programming, etc.
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