A User's Guide to Salvageable Works

 There aren't too many ways you could've gotten here. Nevertheless, there are a lot of mitigating factors for what is here and where it might potentially go. 

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I started writing some stories in the form of surrealistic poems about ten years ago. They became, shortly after being drafted as just random ideas, the foundation of something called The Only Bad Thing That Ever Happened. In spite of being composed of about 40+ self-contained and loosely interrelated pieces, arguments can easily be made that their themes centered more around caricatures rather than fully developed characters. 

This continued about two months after completing the first attempts. I wrote more things -- slightly more developed -- that about six months later fit under the heading of The New World & A More Satisfying Futility. They introduced some characters like Cooper Eckert, Mortimer the Burro and Paul Fischer to the mostly ordinary citizens of The Only Bad Thing... The results, again, are debatable. 

I was homeless in Poughkeepsie for about a year after completing The New World... I mostly just goofed around in notepads and hung out with bums and drunks and spent whatever free time I had from collecting empty cans and squeezing the limited value of food stamps for all it was worth at the library, reading, writing, watching videos on the internet. And about a month after posting some new things to a blog that has since fallen to the other side of time, I made and lost a new friend and found myself in Albany. 

I started writing new stories. Some of which are on this page. Over all, progress is predictably slow when it comes to inventing creative situations for practical problems. But personal industry is invaluable, and the least accomplishments can be stacked very, very high if one takes the patience and care to order them sensibly. 

Proof of that can be found here: tobedeleted00.blogspot.com. 

In the meantime, let's take a look at some things that drift between the never has been and the never was. 

Happy Hunting.