Empty Gardens
Originally published in The New Quarterly,
1999
I think it’s a good idea to venerate your idols,
even the ones with feet of Demerol. Here are some essays about people who
helped shape my thinking, my writing, and at times my life. Other idols
and early influences include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Angela B. Davis, Glenn
Gould, Janis Joplin, Mother Theresa, Marcel Proust and the Hardy Boys,
Frank and Joe.
Writers write a lot of things that go nowhere in
their efforts to be successful writers. (Of course they become fodder for
other things, but that’s another story -- literally.) Along with two
unpublished novels, I’ve also got a handful of scripts written for
television and film. Here’s one of my faves.
Click here to read an excerpt from the teleplay script to Purge
Due to size and for easier
reading, this script is in PDF format, which requires the
Acrobat
Reader.
Published Shorter Fiction:
Nashwaak (upcoming 2007) Cup and Saucer Bent on Writing (Canadian Scholars Press, Elizabeth Ruth, editor)
2002 Queen for a Day Bend Sinister (GMP-UK, Peter Burton, editor) 2002 A Perfect Time to Be in Paris Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly Vol. 3, no. 2, 2001 A Perfect Time to Be in Paris Suspect Thoughts – A Journal of Subversive Writing 2001 (web) Adventures in Paradise (Parts I & II) The New Quarterly, Vol. XIX, no. 1, Spring 1999 Empty Gardens Instinct, Summer Fiction Issue, 1998 This Is Not Your Country Skunk Premiere Issue, Aug 1992 Ten Resolutions of an Art Fag; My Great Weekend in the Pits –
(parts 1&2 of a triptych) Xtra! The Church Wellesley Review, Sept. 1990
Jerry Falwell Goes To The Promised Land Dalhousie Gazette, 1977 Truth And Beauty: A Fairy Story in the Tradition of Oscar Wilde
Published Poetry:
Canadian Literature, No. 182, Autumn 2004 Small Furies (EX)CITE Journal of Contemporary Writing, Premiere Issue, Spring
2001 Burning, remembering – 6 Dec ’91 Paperplates, Vol. 4 no. 1 Spring 2000 (web) Arrangements The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, Issue No. 34 Autumn Lessons The New Quarterly, Vol. XVII, no. 3, Fall 1997 Friends; Father The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, Issue No. 20 Aria Ariel, Vol. 24, No. 3, July 1993 winter garden LiNQ , Vol. 19, no. 2, 1992 Wednesday Morning Launderette The White Rose, Issue 24 Barque of Metaphor Ammonite, Issue 5, March 1992 new song/old rag and bone Nexus, Vol. 5, no.1, Spring 1992 time and the nature of being; vacation incident The Antigonish Review, No. 85-85, 1991 Turn The New Quarterly, Vol. X, no. 4, Winter 1991 for our mothers
