Erik's Writings

I've been creating things in my head since I was extremely young. I've been writing them down for a slightly shorter period of time. I have lost a lot of it to hard drive crashes, mysterious vanishings of files from web servers, overzealous friends cleaning my room, poor housekeeping ability, and plain old carelessness. But despite the vast quantity of material that I've lost, I've hung on to a lot of stuff too. Some of it is here. If it isn't, it's because of one of two reasons. The first is that it was lost somehow, in which case you'll just have to deal with the loss. The second is that it sucked, and the only way you'll see it back here is if you convince me that it didn't. I thrive on feedback (which I prefer to receive at: hc(at)qrivy(dot)net), of which I get almost none. Please, please, tell me what you do or don't like about what you see here. I'd rather get rabid insults than silence. Besides, I think most of this stuff is crap these days anyway.

Prose

  • Quick and Dirty Stories
    The most recent (a relative term, to be sure) writings are here. All of these stories were written in only a few hours, with no previous planning, and with titles as suggested by friends of mine.
  • Where Your Eyes Don't Go
    I wrote ten chapters in this science fiction/fantasy novel and then stopped, hung up with writer's block. I mourn many failed projects, but this one is the most painful. It was going strong for awhile, but it will probably stay on hold for a good while longer. Pardon the bad formatting. It'd be a chore to fix it, but I may do that sometime.
  • Laundry Day
    I originally wrote this as part of my journal. I like it, but I think it needs some cleaning up.
  • What is Yellow?
    This is an essay I wrote my freshman year in college. Not bad.
  • How to Survive a Movie
    This comes almost verbatim from my first editorial as editor of T.H.E.M.'s fanzine Entropy. Everyone has heard how to survive a horror flick, but only I have addressed the issue of surviving movies in general.
  • Metacolumn
    Another editorial. After having read this column, a friend commented "This column gives me a headache."
  • The BSS
    October's editorial column. Proposition on what to do about the recent rash of supernatural crimes.
  • A Letter to Santa
    December's editorial. A most unusual "Dear Santa" letter.

Poetry

  • The Color of the Flame
    I wrote a lot of poetry when I was younger. Reading it today, I feel that most of it is crap. This poem is one of the few that I feel still holds up.