A long time ago, only a few miles away on the other side of town, I started working on an epic story. It was the kind of epic only a six year old could conceive of, with kung fu, cowboys and indians, and maybe even a dinosaur or two. That isn't the story I want to tell on this blog.
I want to use this as a platform to post a lot of the other strange ideas that come spit balling out of my head. A lot of these ideas come out half-baked, some only make it a few pages gasping for air, and I figured an anonymous wall on the internet was as good a place as any to show them off. Don't worry though, my imagination still rampages, and the kung-fu epic is still back flipping around somewhere.
Over the next few days I will post a few random short stories and at least one poem to get started, and maybe I will find an old rant and put it up. I don't know what to tell you to expect. My sensibilities run toward dark humor, mean satire, and exaggerated outrage, while my stories' settings are usually science fiction/fantasy inspired. I like to write in different perspectives, use narrators of varying reliability, and often behave antagonistically towards my protagonists.
As I said before, not everything that comes through here will be quite complete or even decently edited. I will try to update this page frequently, but I'd like to ask for your patience with my creative processes. I encourage commenting, though remind people to maintain decorum. All in all I am excited about this experiment and I hope that we all have a good time.
Please enjoy reading the first stories, including a short story about space, and the first chapter in a serial inspired by a game I played with my friends. Below is some more information about myself, and the things I enjoy.
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To introduce myself. I am Rockit Ship, aka Dar alHarb, an aspiring writer, lawyer, and designer. I have been writing since I was five, active around the internet since 1996 on my free MSN computer as WarpCraft3, and trolled the AOL chat rooms as Devilsseat. I have moved many times, and really enjoy road-trips. I have driven to forty-seven states, traveled to four countries, lived in desert, mountain, and harbor towns. I've delivered pizzas and moon bounces, worked as a stock boy, grant writer, janitor, special needs camp counselor, and political organizer. I love reading, and talking, about books and comics, I play dnd regularly, and over the past three years I have been teaching myself to program in javascript. I am interested in politics, law, and government, and current events.
My favorite books are Lamb, the Talisman, the Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Lord of the Flies, Night Watch, the Gone-Away World, and Dracula. My favorite authors are Stephen King, Jim Butcher, Kevin J. Anderson, Christopher Moore, A. Lee Martinez, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, and G.R.R.M. My other favorites include Mike Carey, Carl Hiaasen, Kevin Smith, Nick Harkaway, Mark Buckingham, Neil Gaiman, Jae Lee, Alan Moore, Hamilcar Barca, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Shelly, Ernest House Sr., Learned Hand, Aldo Leopold, Chinua Achebe, Haruki Murakami, Lew Wallace, Tony Jaa, David Crockett, Rumi, Bruce Lee, Hal Jordan, and Thomas Jefferson.
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