This page was getting long and disorganized, so I decided to sort things into categories, fiction, rants & raves, and true stories. . Fiction I don't write very much fiction. Usually the things I do write down come from dreams. My Dream of the City. Spring 1999 The Fog Spring 2002 Rants and Raves Two rambles written when I first got a website. On Being Different On Not Being Different Two posts I made to Usenet in the fall of 2000. I'd had a really rough summer and these were an attempt to articulate how I was feeling about my life. The response to them was so positive I decided to preserve them here. Fly Away Fire in the Belly I just posted this to my LiveJournal on New Year's Eve. Thinking about the year just passed and being just about to turn 40 made me wax verbose about my life. The most painful part is the number of people who recognized it. Desert of the heart More noodlings from my Livejournal. Mostly because I kind of like it, and that way I have it archinved if LJ goes tits-up or eaten by MSN or suspends my account or something. Work Styles of the Rich and Famous For some reason the topic came up (as it frequently does) of how Siobhan Does Not Think Like Most People. And in the course of the conversation I had to explain why I call such incidents,"The Cheese File". The Cheese Shop A rant I wrote on a mailing list to some friends a couple of years back. I was clearing out some old files and I found it. OK, so who did I piss off exactly? I define myself as a feminist. For some reason a bunch of things happened all around the same time that caught my attention - so I wrote Scenes From the Gender Wars. Part I: Radical Breasts Part II Pimpslap Part III: Offense and Defense True Stories Daytonas Don't Float House of Horrors Ancient History Holiday in Cambodia White Rain Don't read it if you are freaked out by maggots. The Invaders Ditto on the maggots. The Tough Kid How I Didn't Get Married Why I Only Have One Tongue Piercing Another one with a squick warning. Why I Wear Glasses Ghost Stories Running On Fury A Story of Coincidence & Chance How I Met Hillard House Of Girls Food Fight More bugs. Wrong Time, Wrong Place I started doing this exercise, the object of which was to tell ten stories in three sentances or less. I ended up being able to pull this off a few times before I ran out of steam. I tend to go back and mine them occasionally when I'm looking for something new to write about. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Last Updated January 1 2006. Back to my home page