Mellow Dramatic Samurai "The flash of silver stung my eyes..." So begins the melancholy tale of the mellow dramatic samurai. This was co-written with AI. The... (more) Art
The Field Guide These music loops follow Seizi's adventure into the living dump as he discovers ever larger and more complex ecologies of trashkin. More... (more) Music
Jade AI: Encounters with an AI Guru Chatbot I can't stop chatting with my new homebrew AI Guru! I've named her Jade AI. At first, it was simply "Jade"—but then, as I kept texting... (more) Artificial Intelligence, Article, Chatbot
Dandruff on the Shoulders of Giants Many of the authors you might think of as wildly original are steeped in the tradition of dissecting and riffing on the work of other... (more) Writing, Lesson, Article
Nowhere Sits the Wind This is the soundtrack I created to listen to while working on a set of distant post-apocalyptic stories. Deep Slide is a window into... (more) Music
Mixing Thank (and other NFTs) Mixing Thank is a digital illustration (png) of one of the teen protagonists of The Half-Life of Trash, weary, wary, watching over the... (more) Nft, Art
Can AI Write My Bio? This is a version of my About page, as written by an AI. Co-written by GPT-3. I ask the questions, it gives some very interesting... (more) Artificial Intelligence, Article
The World According to Michael Coorlim Michael Coorlim is an inventive and prolific writer and game developer whose creative worlds stretch from steampunk to cyberpunk. His... (more) Podcast, Writing, Game Design
The Half-Life of Trash These are music loops I made to get me into the flow of writing the novel-in-progress of the same name. The Half-Life of Trash is a... (more) Music
The World According to Donna Grosvenor Donna Grosvenor took a photograph that was included on the Voyager spacecraft, that envoy to the stars—as she herself was an envoy to... (more) Podcast, Yoga, Photography, Travel
The World According to Alison OK Frost Alison OK Frost is an artist who takes troubling social and environmental images, and transforms them into delicate watercolors and... (more) Podcast, Artifacts, Education, Artificial Intelligence
The World According to Mirza Inayat Khan Mirza Inayat Khan's rich mythological and spiritual insights always leave me feeling good, even when, or perhaps especially when we... (more) Podcast, Education, Religion
The World According to Josh Whitkin Josh Whitkin, a legend of game design, fatherhood, and friendship. We explore dropping out of high school, getting a PhD, unschooling... (more) Podcast, Game Design, Education
The Realm: A Smart Sword Adventure Defend The Realm with a real Smart Sword! Swing a wooden sword in your back yard while you earn points in the mobile game. Electronics... (more) Game, Mobile, Fantasy, Smart Swords
Thanks Kickstarter Backers! In February of 2020 Tony Maligno and I launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund the first batch of a hundred Smart Swords... (more) Blog, Smart Swords, Kickstarter
The Realm (Game Soundtrack) This is a soundtrack I composed for the mobile game The Realm: A Smart Sword Adventure. Most of the 32 tracks feature two dueling... (more) Music, Smart Swords
Smart Swords Support If something goes amiss with your smart sword, consider: is it a feature? If yes, enjoy! If not so much, try these tips: 1) Recharge... (more) Smart Swords
Griefworm Once upon a time there was a long, grey, two-headed worm. It poked out one head in one town and stuck out its other head in the next... (more) Animismo, Fantasy, Story
Kitty Nigiri VR This is a virtual reality game I made with help from Jacob Ellenberg, Sharon Chang, and Joel Davis. It's a gladiatorial laser-puzzle... (more) Vr, Sci Fi, Game
Privacy Policy EFFECTIVE AS OF MARCH 23, 2017 We don't share personal information with third parties. We don't send spam. Your privacy is paramount... (more)
Strong Toad and Cherufe Cherufe, a snake-like fusion of rock and magma, slithers out of the Mapuche mythology of south-central Chile, undulates in the bedrock,... (more) Animismo, Fantasy, Story
Frog Wild Crick, crack. Walliput, weeliput. Hickity-honkity, dew, dew, dew. "Bit early, don’t you think?" "No, not really, not what with the... (more) Animismo, Fantasy, Story
Murder by Breath You’ve never seen a guy molt junk like my buddy Kyle Drange. The husks of his inventions cluttered every corner of the frat house. To... (more) Sci Fi, Mystery, Story
Ex Libris Read on Kindle. Time. While other caretakers set their tomes on the carrousel for repairs and hastened back to the archives, I lingered... (more) Sci Fi, Story
Coalberry Read on Kindle. Dalia's Hope wakes me and I roll into the shower to scrub off the ride while getting my first look at the system. It's a... (more) Sci Fi, Space, Aliens, Story
Tenderwire Read on Kindle. Zella uncorked her brow and drew out her thread with the slow, sure elegance of a spider unspooling silk. Gossamer... (more) Sci Fi, Cyberpunk, Post Apoc, Story
Sway Read on Kindle. Once upon a time, on a cloudless day, a cloud appeared over the pine tree in the yard. It wasn't smoke or steam. It... (more) Slice Of Life, Story
Chrome City Downs Read on Kindle. Kid Carbon's steps rang out as he descended through a vertical maze of neon signage. The anonymous shadows of the Downs... (more) Sci Fi, Cyberpunk, Story
Mirage of Genzite Read on Kindle. The looming of Oasis filled the viewport. Only a thousandth of it could be seen from this approach, but what there was... (more) Sci Fi, Space, Aliens, Story
Shellbreaker Read on Kindle. The spectrum bled. Tomas shifted through indigo into a bloom of vermillion that spread from the void with fractal... (more) Sci Fi, Story
Between ePhemerin Skyads Read on Kindle. When Elm was a boy, the sky was still blue. Now it was any color they chose. Today it was an advertisement for... (more) Sci Fi, Post Apoc, Story
Oro Grande Read on Kindle. A rhino ran me down. That was my first thought as I struggled to stand, brushing street grease off my palms onto my... (more) Slice Of Life, Story
Retrograde Ovens, refridgerators, washers and dryers, dishwashers, microwaves, tvs and cars, computers, phones, stereos, remotes and speakers... (more) Poem
One Zucchini No water, no trail, fat mountain. Dried-up sunset, black bear scat, hidden cliff, saw-toothed scree, twisting boots. No moon. Circle... (more) Slice Of Life, Flash Fiction, Story
Trashkins - Early Comic Penciled by me and inked and watercolored by my wife, Diana, back in the early oughts. The kids here have worked their way through all... (more) Art
Monster Time 1 is the monster under the bed 2 are the monsters inside my head 3 are the pounds of blood I must pay 4 the four-headed Kakklekee to... (more) Animismo, Story
