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Short Stories – Table of Contents

Posted by Joshua on Jan.19, 2010, in the Short Stories section.

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.


Essays – Table of Contents

Posted by Joshua on Jan.19, 2010, in the Essays section.

Religious Essays
A Review of the Bhagavad-Gïtä
(A short paper for my Eastern Religions class, 2004.)
Gandhi on Truth
(A short paper for my Eastern Religions class, 2004.)

Philosophical Essays
A Holographic God and the Artificial Soul
(In class writing assignment for my first year Philosophy class, 2005.)
Society and the Omnipresent-self
(Another in class writing assignment for my first year Philosophy class, 2005.)
The Ever Changing History of the Universe
(A shorter version of the paper I wrote for my Philosophical Foundations of Science, 2006.)

Literature Essays
From Caterpillars to Butterflies
(A short essay I wrote for my Writing 102 class in April 2005)

Political Essays
Land of the free?
(A speach I did for my frst year of Academic Decathlon in 1999.)
Fortress Civilization
(A piece I did for my Writing 101 class in November 2004.)
The Hope of Hopelessness
(A medium sized paper I had to write for one of my Anthropology classes, 2005.)

Personal Essays
The Purpose of Love
(Something I spurted out late on night in 2003.)


 

Posted by Joshua on Jan.19, 2010, in the Essays section.