About

What is this place?

This is the place where I put writing of mine that isn't for publication: poetry, flash fiction, reflections. Bloggish things. Wim Wenders said that "any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes." I think this goes for any work of fiction, philosophy, or theology. 

Why 70,000 fathoms?

Back when I started this blog I was studying theology, Søren Kierkegaard in particular. He wrote, “If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water.” 

Why are you pretending that someone is asking you these questions?

I don't know. I don't... know.

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Fiction

"Dee-mee-tan," Spectrum Literary Journal. 2023.

"I Was Promised a Hotdog," read aloud on Selected Prose, 2022.

"Irrlicht," Not One of Us, 2022.

"The Backdoor Lock," The Dalhousie Review, 2022.

"Raise Me Up an Eastern Mountain," The Society of Misfit Stories Bards and Sages Quarterly, 2021.

"Omnipotent Marble," Mysterion, 2020.

"We Have Your Book!" The Future Fire, 2018.

"Leech," The Journey Prize Stories 29, 2017.

"Notes Towards a New Fairytale," Metaphorosis, 2017.

"Eyelids," Pantheon Magazine, 2017.

“Extracts from a Life of Science Fiction,” Aurealis, 2016.

Poetry, Haiku, Haibun, Tanka...

1 haiku, dust devils: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, 2016.

1 haiku, tiny words, 2016.

“Revelries,” Abyss and Apex, 2016.

1 haiku (Sakura Award winner), Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2015.

“Night and Day,” Contemporary Haibun Online. 2015.

“A Scholar’s Desk,” Haibun Today, 2015.

“The Line,” Frogpond, 2015.

“The Rain Comes”; “The Silence of theLake,” Lyrical Passion, 2015.

“Two Canadian Geese,” Presence, 2015

1 haiku, Behind the Tree Line: An Anthology of Wild Plum Haiku, 2015.

1 haiku. Acorn, October, 2015. 

4 haiku, Under the Basho, 2015.

3 haiku, sonic boom, Issue 3, 2015.

3 concrete haiku, moongarlic, Issue 5, 2015.

1 haiku, bones, Issue 7 2015.

2 tanka, hedgerow, Issue 39, 2015.

1 haiku, Modern  Haiku, Issue 46:3, 2015.

1 senryu, Prune Juice, July Issue, 2015.

1 tanka, Cattails, 2015.

2 haiku, Under the Basho, 2015.

1 haiku, Mayfly, Issue 59, 2015.

1 tanka, A Hundred Gourds, Issue 4:4 2015.

1 haiku, A Hundred Gourds, Issue 4:4, 2015.

2 haiku, bottle rockets, Issue 34, 2015.

1 haiku, Haiku Journal, Issue 37, 2015.

3 concrete haiku, Under the Basho, 2015.

1 haiku, Wild Plum, Issue 1:2, 2015.

1 tanka and 2 haiku, hedgerow, Issue 38, 2015.

5 haiku, Simply Haiku, 2015.

2 haiku, Presence, Issue 52, 2015.

1 haiku, NeverEnding Story, 2015.

1 haiku, Modern  Haiku, Issue 46:2, 2014.

1 haiku, bones, Issue 6, 2014.