I write weird fiction. I maintain a Substack site, The Immersible: Dispatches from Tallahassee Beach, and have started using it to publish (and re-publish) my work. Here are a few samples published earlier:
- and certain stars shot madly from their spheres, published in the Apalachee Review. It's probably my best effort so far, and I hope you'll fall in love with Nadia (or whoever she is) like I did.
- 1539, which speaks from three unfortunate points of view: Spanish, Apalachee, and--something else.
- Pleistocene, wherein the subgenres of alien abduction and time travel collide with excessive beer drinking.
- Wisteria Blue, a performance piece inspired by yardwork and H.P. Lovecraft (see also the Performance page).
- The Freon Jones, a chilling tale of chemical addiction.
Not everything I write is fiction, though some of it is still weird. Academic publications include a journal article, book chapters, and invited talks (detailed in the curriculum vitae). Two personal faves:
- A fictional autoethnography about gender performance in virtual worlds called Virtually Queer, which delights me by continuing to get more attention than just about anything else I've published in academia.
- Remediating the Stars: Rob Wright’s ‘Watch the World(s)’ Machinima, on hypermediation, MUVEs, and Vincent Van Gogh, won a Top Paper award at a convention of the National Communication Association.
As one did back then, I blogged and tweeted pretty regularly between 2005-2015 when I was up to my eyeballs in what was grandly called New Media. Much of that deathless prose is archived at my old blog Virtually Natural, which provides an often unintentionally amusing look at all the things that were emerging then.
I've written and edited a wide variety of technical, academic, and educational materials over the years. Some of my essays--formal and otherwise--can be found on the weblog What've I Done?