On Imagination, Dreams, and Inspiration
Or how my imagination got lost, and a chance performance by the unknown, but wonderful, artist Psyche Corporation sparked inspiration in me to get it back.
Writing
Digital Dream Kids
I am a part of you
I replace you
No need for skin and bone
I can take you further
Wish for strength
Wish for speed
Wish for power
I am your genie
Technology is perfected
Steel sinews
And platinum nerves
You need that rotten fetid flesh no more
Behind My Eyes: A Dark Poem
Webs painted behind my eyes
Sleep is forsaken
Devils dance behind my eyes
Skin draws tighter
Take another shot
Still they refuse to die
Cackling and taunting
I grow weary of fighting
Smoke rises behind my eyes
Dark haze with no escape
Demons grin behind my eyes
Intent on my suffering
Liar’s Smile: a Poem
Retching into the toilet
Bile burning
Searing my throat as it pumps up
Splashing down to join the rest of the night’s festivities
Cleaning up (myself, my apartment, my life)
I wonder what it would be like
Thoughts stir and brew
Like the coffee I’ll have to bring my head around
Ascendance: A Cyberpunk Short Story
A cyberpunk short story, written in 1998 for a Summer writing class.
The luminescence of the net faded. Pure white noise flooded his senses, a slight spasm running through his body as the crackling feedback subsided. Jade tugged the trode out of his skull plug and took a deep breath. Reality, the place outside of the net… it felt so artificial, so empty compared to the gleaming electronic highways of the net.
