Contemplicity.com

I made a few updates today…

Changes to site in public release (0.95 to 0.962):
Updated to WordPress platform 3.0.
Expanded the Lifestream feed to 20 entries, and changed the title.
Removed Facebook, iTunes, and Raptr feeds from Lifestream feed. Fixed a problem with Pandora’s feed.
Added a couple of pieces to the Paintings, Drawings, and Mixed Media Sections today. (Old stuff which I haven’t made time to scan and upload before now.)
The Music section has been made private for the time being.
Added some stuff to the Essays and Short Stories Sections.
Reorganized Links, and made their font size smaller in the footer of each page.
Added a text Navigation Menu to the footer of every page.
Updated FAQs Page, as well as copyright and licensing information for the site.
Cleaned up miscellaneous code concerning how comments display.
Fixed general page display settings

That’s all for now.

“Renai-shousetsu“
Synopsis ~ A short fairy tale that takes place in fuedal Japan.
Content ~ nothing graphic
Short ~ complete short story
Back-story ~ Short and sweet, no metaphors… a romantic and to the point fairy tale.

“Time Spent“
Synopsis ~ A short story about two people who live hundreds of mile apart, and the one special day they had to spend with each other.
Content ~ nothing graphic
Short ~ complete short story
Back-story ~ It is a story about someone I used to know and someone I want to get to know. It’s a story to warn about falling in love with an idea.

“The List“
Synopsis ~ A story about the lives of two men; one man who achieved a successful life of wealth, and the other who will help him complete the one thing he never managed to do.
Content ~ nothing graphic
Short ~ complete short story
Back-story ~ While writing a list of life goals, I wondered what other, harder working people would have written on their lists.

“Siren’s Song“
Synopsis ~ A young man’s search for a singer he saw only for a moment.
Content ~ nothing graphic
Short ~ complete short story
Back-story ~ While walking through the streets of Sydney, I found a very talented female singer. The bar tender forced me to leave, and when I returned later, the singer was already gone, but for some reason, I could not get her out of my head.

“On The Possibilities Of A Selective Memory“
Synopsis ~ A man who doesn’t remember his past, wakes up under an unfamiliar ceiling, covered in blood.
Content ~ suicide, death, immortality, breaking up
Short ~ complete short story
Back-story ~ Inspired largely by Prototype Chan’s idea, I went through the day in the life of a man who has no memory of killing himself.

“Saving Graces“
Synopsis ~ A boy traveling through a foreign city, meets a collection of odd people.
Content ~ abuse, mild violence
Short ~ complete short story
Back-story ~ Alone in Sydney, this is a true story of events unfolding one night between ‘The Rocks’ and ‘Circular Quay’.

“A Stranger Named Samantha“
Synopsis ~ Two people meet in an electronics store, and share a moment.
Content ~ death
Short ~ complete short story
Back-story ~ Killing time in a Best Buy one afternoon, I saw one of the most magnetic women I had ever seen, which still haunts me to this day.