I’m David and I write stories. Mostly weird or SF&F. Sometimes I try to get them published.
On this page there are no 21st century politics, no hot takes.
I spend a shocking amount of time looking at books and reading scholarly articles across disciplines. On this blog I will point to random ideas, articles, books that catch my attention, books I’ve read or might read, stories I’ve read, and occasional tales of my own efforts to sell stories.
I am a librarian, reader, amateur gardener, lover of naps, abderitic*, and patahistorian**.
If you want to know more, check out the About page.
“Bustling folly is the character of our species: people hastily set off on the path of the good, but do not persevere steadfastly upon it; indeed, in order to avoid being bound to a single goal, even if only for the sake of variety they reverse the plan of progress, build in order to demolish, and impose upon themselves the hopeless effort of rolling the stone of Sisyphus uphill in order to let it roll back down again.” — Immanuel Kant
We build our civilization up/and we shoot it down with wars — Woody Guthrie
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” — Albert Camus
*abderitic – someone who believes the world is getting neither worse nor better, while simultaneously believing the world is getting both better and worse.
**patahistorian – someone who studies the history of imaginary solutions.
