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Born jaundiced, I spent my first days of life in an incubator; at six months old, no longer yellow, I contracted bronchitis; rather than returning me to the hospital, my parents opted to convert my crib into a humidification tent,—for which reasons are my earliest memories, of life in a dark containment, the meaning of which was only much later revealed to me.
At the age of five, while sitting in a bathtub, I realized, as a result of looking at a rubber duckie, that I and all things would one day die; this was shortly thereafter confirmed by my parents.

I'm the editor-in-chief, maker-of-images and minister-of-spam for (the) Squawk Back, an online journal of transgressive literature (monthly circulation: 1,400¹);
short fiction of my authorship appears in Metazen, is forthcoming in Paper Darts;
for roughly two years I've been working on a 'novel in public development,' meaning: I've published excerpts of its early drafts—able to be viewed here: thesquawkback.com/p/fngrlsdtb.html#block—to the end of pre-promoting and studying potential demographics for, and obtaining criticism of, which, both from readers and other writers; as well, to the end of networking, with both latter and former.

Favorite, not all, books I've read in the last six months: The Portrait of a Lady, How German is It, The Libera Me Domine, Pride and Prejudice, Fiskadoro, The Deerslayer, Frankenstein, If Not Now, When?, Heat and Dust, Oscar and Lucinda, The Immortal Bartfuss;
favorite films: Clueless, The Fugitive, JFK, L.A. Confidential, Quiz Show;
sole television series that was ever good: Seinfeld;
..music: climputh.bandcamp.com;
..food: xiaolongbao.

you read books; are interested in botanical gardens, ruins, historical societies, disused mines, animal sanctuaries, historic buildings and sites; libraries, colonies of various kinds, nature reserves, conservatories, hiking, the dollar bin at the strand, squats, tenements, outsider art, parks, observatories, cemeteries, government buildings, big bellied oaks, repertory movie theaters, landfills, the theatre, excavations, the mysteries of the backyard, other kinds of trees, aimlessly walking around, numismatics, scrabble.