Monthly Archives: October 2011
Love, Honor and Velociraptor
It is the night before Hugo’s wedding. We’re sitting in his living room, with almost twenty-four hours before he’s going to be making a lifetime commitment, as he’s starting to write his vows. I have seen Hugo pull off some … Continue reading
Best Men
I mostly know Hugo’s best man, Samir, through stories of their drunken antics from the year that Hugo and Stick were roommates, and I lived in Yantai, China. So I’ve heard secondhand about the time Samir locked himself in the … Continue reading
Disoriented
Most bridal party and out-of-town guests gather at Hugo and Diana’s before we all climb into cars and head to the chapel for the wedding rehearsal. Stick and I pull out of their complex and immediately make a wrong turn. … Continue reading
Security
As my friends begin to have children, I figure their daydreams about future babies involve the part where their child will appears in their living room, at thirty, asking how to get a bridesmaid dress on a flight to Denver … Continue reading
Things I Have Learned About Games
Behind every bright pink videogame promotion is a female game dev headdesking in frustration.
The Age of All-Nighters
The editors of InTheSnake wrote me to let me know they’re taking my flash fiction submission for their October issue! I’m completely thrilled. After I told Twitter, I had to come up with a short summary of the piece for … Continue reading
Play
A crisis of some sort is not uncommon for successful people at midlife, but the age of this midlife meltdown has started coming earlier and earlier. People have started talking about a “thrisis” in the thirties and a “quarter-life crisis” … Continue reading
