Bird of Prey: First draft finished

Just a little status update. My forthcoming short story "Bird of Prey" has finally taken a shape and form. After a pretty lengthy writing process that started before "Lena" was released on this blog, all the pieces have been stitched together into what is looking much more like a finished text. This said, there will be inevitably plenty of tinkering that the text will undergo before it's released on here, but I do anticipate to have that done fairly shortly. The current mark puts it at about 4,000 words, so it's somewhere between "End Dream" and "Lena" in size. Almost entirely made out of dialog, it meditates on our interactions, aspirations, and fantasies. Stay tuned! :-)

Sci-fi drama- the new mainsteam?

"Lost". Need I say more? "Battlestar Galactica". The resurgence of vampire chic mixed up with teenage hormonal imbalance. "Twilight", "True Blood", "The Vampire Diaries"... "Avatar", of course. Can't really skip that one, it became the highest grossing film of all time. A tree hugger film at that, which makes it all the more poignant. Even snooty high literature is bowing down. Yann Martel, David Mitchell- two of my favorite young writers more than dabble with sci-fi in such showstoppers as "Life of Pi" and "Cloud Atlas". Cunnigham's "Specimen Days"- another example of the permeation of the genre. And I love it, needless to say. Sci-fi is very dear to my generation, and it only follows that it will be catered to. Of course there is the larger trend of eclecticism in art, the blending of genres, media, styles. But that's a whole different topic. So get your sci-fi on. I know I'm doing it. :-)