Home DIY

From Bookcase to Table Base

Here we are at the beginning. And in the beginning, so I am told, the world was created. And only after the mouth of the sea and the teeth of the mountains and the crown of the sky were created–only then, when the setting was set and the fruit was ripe, did little people made of corn and clay toddle around the world’s expanse, exploring and making more things out of other things.

It seems right, then, that before I get into any sewing or crafting or other experiments of a similar scale, I should first will into being a good environment in which such things may be accomplished.

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Short Stories

Fish Out of Water

Written in the fall of 2016, this is still one of my favorites. Just about everything I wrote that autumn and the following spring was a joy to work on.

I thought this might make a good book someday. There’s a partially-developed world that I would love to dig into further: part 18th-century pirate story, part magical post-apocalypse, and lots of potential.

In this strange environment, I was able to explore transitional spaces between land and sea, human and Other, by placing a land-based pseudo-biologist medicine man on a ship in the middle of the ocean.

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