Cellfic 13: “Egg Salad”

He caught the call from the Chief mid-bite. Egg salad. Slopped on the face of his cellphone. He could just make out the Caller ID between the bits of egg and relish slipping down the screen: Chief Haymen. Ever since the Five Points shooting — that’s what they were calling it even though technically that’s [...]

Posted at 10:32 pm on July 25, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: gerald's | read on

Cellfic 12: “Emperors’ Statues”

Did the Emperors really believe those statues would remain encased and still forever? Were they so arrogant? Did no one warn them? Surely at least one Emperor’s child stared at the suffering giants, worn by water and the burdens of imperial glory. Surely at least one child realized that, where enormous shoulders seemed never to [...]

Posted at 10:00 pm on July 8, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: sara's | read on

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Over on my now-retired main blog – goyablog (reincarnation of goyablog is here) — I recently posted an entry about the so-called keitai shôsetsu or cellphone fiction phenomenon that has swept Japan, setting the literary into a tizzy. I won’t repeat the details here. Suffice it to say that cellfic (as I’ll call it) is super short stories (< 500 words or so) originally born and consumed  on cellphones. Well, Sara and I thought it might be fun to do our own. To read either of ours as a set, click “sara’s” or “gerald’s” under Categories to gather them. Gerald’s kind of have to be read in chronological order because somehow he fell into associating them. Sorry. And by the way, we reserve all copyright on all of these works. Enjoy!

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