Creative Writing

Neal R. Wagner


Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are guttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
  And leave your friends and go.
 
Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.
  
                    A. E. Houseman

Some of My Own Writing

Mirror Worlds, NEW! A short story. [See: Garden of the Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges]
The Ship Channel, a short story.
Rats in the Attic, Panic, a short story.
Artificial Intelligence, a short story.
Getting Tenure at a University, a pamphlet.
90-word Story, really short.
Parables, two of my own.
The Laws of Cryptography, unpublished book on cryptography.
Trips to Berlin, based on several trips.

Other Stuff

The Power of Parable, by John Dominic Crossan.
The Orthodox Poetic: A Literary Catechism, by Arvid Shulenberger. Human Nature?, excerpt.
Cooper's Theory of Fiction, Schulenberger's book on Cooper. Review.
Ancient Music and Other Poems, by Shulenberger, for sale several places.
Shulenberger's IInfluence and Obituary. He died 50 years ago.
The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight,
A. E. Houseman, complete poems.
Anne versus Emily, complete novels and a review.
Stephen King, suggestions for reading.
Jane Austen on Writing, quotes about writing.
Worst mathematics article ever written, essay.
Pavorati the Barber Fish, by Nate Wagner, when eleven years old.
Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka. (Commentary by Vladimir Nabokov.)
Children's Reactions to Their Therapist's Pregnancy, by Deborah L. Callanan, M.D.
J.R.R. Tolkien Needed a Copy Editor, essay.
Rhetoric terms, definitions, with annoying ads.
Figures, Tropes, and Other Rhetorical Terms, extensive secondary links, annoying ads.
Michelangelo as a poet. In the otherwise execrable movie Spider man (2012),
the character "Lizard man" quotes Michelangelo:
Deaf Culture: Response to Grief, essay.