One_Time_Pad

Bio:
My name isn't one_time_pad, but it works well enough. I've been writing for about 22 years, and writing on Brigits' Flame since June of 2008. Signed up, was nearly voted out, turned around and won the month. I never quite recovered.

As someone with a Bachelor's degree in Word-Stuff, I read semi-voraciously. Browning and Danielewski were both formative writers for me; Emerson, Shakespeare and Gaiman are ready stand-byes; and Zafon is a recent discovery. After I enjoy a story, I rip sentences apart, digesting the good bits and adding techniques to my repertoire. And if I can turn that around and use it while editing someone else, so much the better!

In my spare time, I'm not a bad chef. I'm getting better at gardening and worse at mowing my lawn. I lecture at colleges. I've paid taxes on my band earnings. And I have four musty novel drafts and an out-of-date horror-fiction-website which need a lot of attention. In short, I have a hard time maintaining focus.

The Chosen Piece:

"[Y]ou have so many subtleties, nuances, etc. that I feel like I'm editing clockwork."
-- lacombe , in editing the featured submission.

While I think my haiku was pretty funny, and my June '08 winning entry was technically flawless, I like this story the most out of anything I've submitted. When presented with the topic "Trash," I knew the Obvious Choice would be some dystopian hell where people are rooting through the remnants of our current society.

I hate the Obvious Choice.

So I knew I had to spin it in the opposite direction: something immaculately clean. What keeps this world clean? Why, a trash colLECTOR ...

The end result, I feel, captures a complex set of vibes ... presents a lot of different questions ... and turns a few ideas on their heads without mucking about too much with formatting and typesetting.
--but what do you think?

The Link:
http://one_time_pad.livejournal.com/1522.html

 

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