STORIES:
Cat Futures. A parody on futures in commodities markets. A
couple of stock traders explore giving market value to the best
things of life. I had the idea while wakening to stock market reports
and having one of my cats jump on my bed. DOCX. PDF.
The Turing test. Are you sure you could tell the difference
between a person and a computer program? It might be harder
than you’d imagine. DOCX. PDF.
Art of darkness. Comparison of how a physicist and a zoologist
would navigate in pitch darkness, in this case a lake-filled cave
they have to cross. Tip: the zoologist beats out the rational
physicist by borrowing ideas from living creatures. DOCX. PDF.
Natural selection as creation. Someone has signed a contract
with God to take over from Him as creator, using natural selection
and mutation. Then they call in an evolutionist to fulfill the contract
them for them. Shouldn't be hard, right? Turns out, he's not
pleased! DOCX. PDF.
Faith in numbers. I wrote this brief story in my teens to help me
come to terms with minus numbers and the square root of minus
one. DOCX. PDF.
POEM:
Creation of Eve: Written when I was 18, my only poem. Now I see
it as an expression of my expectation that present meaning would
lie in an account of our origins. DOCX, PDF.
MY WRITING: I have been a professional medical and science
writer, but the writing included here will be my non-professional
efforts, in fields not covered in the other sections of this site.
I have written and published two novels, under my “Evolved Self
Publishing” imprint. But I read little fiction, and have little familiarity
with its conventions. My writing is primarily about ideas. My stories
are usually mere vehicles for my interest in theories of evolution.
