Hypnogogia
The sleep center doctors tell me about the little deaths that aphnea causes. You have two choices: the fading, choking death resulting from sealed passageways or the electric blink where your brain -- for just a second -- is left in the dark. There are no other choices, and you will have but many of these episodes during the night.
There is hope if you chose the gasping, choking death of your throat closing itself during the night. You can have a tube shoved down into your esophagus and air will be pumped into your body for six hours. When your lungs overinflate and your body panics, it routes the air to your stomach where your turgid acids flail helplessly at the swirling atmospheres, unable to find something material to dissolve. This air passes through your intestines and comes out like black roses from your ass in the morning. You greet the day like a trombone.
The other choice is the silent mystery, the miniscule flatline which interrupts your brain waves for the slightest of seconds. Bip! You've stopped. Bip! You've started again. It is no wonder you never fully sleep when your body simply stops for a second at a time throughout the night. You're halfway off the high shelf all night long, ready to roll into oblivion if that interrupted second never passes.
You are exhausted, fighting these little deaths. Morpheus never visits because you always scare him when he leans over to check if you are breathing. Your only friend is his little cousin, Hypnogogia. She lets you lean against her shoulder during the day. She is your best friend, actually, always there, always ready to catch you when you fall.
writing
This is a reasonably comprehensive list of my published work, both virtual and physical.
THE MISFIT LIBRARY
I am Nine of Thirteen, one of the members of the Misfit Library, a writing collective which puts out a quarterly journal of our respective work. We are scattered across the globe and determined to change the face of the planet one story at a time. The link above will take you to Misfit Central where you can acquire copies of the journal as well as read exclusive online material.
SYMBOLIC
I wrote a column for OPi8.com's Transmit blogs: journals of the new dark underground. SYMBOLIC tracked the novel I was working on, referencing the process and the research materials which mad up the backbone of the work. In addition, SYMBOLIC busied itself with ruminations and considerations on the nature of language and communication. And a wee bit of mythology. The first 100 entries of SYMBOLIC can be found here on this site as well as at OPi8.com.
LITERARY REPRESENTATION
I am represented by Scribe Agency as my literary agents. Please contact these gentleman if you have any queries about my work.