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Here are some of the things that Joey has written:

 

Where are you off to now? (Terminus)



This was the first story I sold for over fifty dollars. Man was I excited. It's about this guy who deviates from the preplanned bike tour that it is his job to lead, and instead leads the tourists on a bike tour of his old neighbourhood (and of his ex-girlfriends in particular). What could happen next? The story was based on this Overqualified. Plagiarism!




The Underwear Model (PINE magazine)


I did a public reading of this story for the PINE magazine launch party. There were bands, and it took place in this punk rock bar where I'm always too nervous to hang out. A guy becomes obsessed with an underwear model who has the same scar as him. It's a fairly long story to have to read in front of a bunch of hipsters and punk rockers. But, like standup comedy, fiction goes over better when the audience is drunk. 




1e4 (Eyeshot)


I'm obsessed with the idea of hidden messages. Secret communication. Codes and secret societies. See also, this Overqualified.





Linux Device Drivers (Eyeshot)


I used to program computers, so I have all these manuals lying around. I had, at one point, every book O'Reilly made about perl and regular expressions. Chew on THAT! print "yes"&"no"for(1..3) Secret codes and chess. 




The girl who couldn't come



This is a story I wrote for a magazine tour that Broken Pencil invited both Emily and I to participate in! My mom came to the reading which was pretty awkward, given the content! When I didn't have money for a power bill, I put this story online in order to raise funds. It worked!




The Historian (Strange Horizons)

I am also obsessed with the idea of biography. My two favourite books are Beautiful Shadow: the biography of Patricia Highsmith, and CAPOTE. Becky Cloonan illustrated this, and that is AWESOME.





Historians and Degenerates (Strange Horizons)

 More biography, but not the same sort of story at all. A man's wife vanishes, jumps off the grid, writes a tell all sex biography about their love life. 





The Machine (Strange Horizons)

 A priest and a scientist walk into a bar, looking for a miracle. Ugly little hologram children. A machine that records every instant of every day and people are still arguing about what's what! 





Lockpick Pornography (This one paid my tuition in spring 2005)

You can read the first seven chapters of lockpick pornography online.

You can also buy it for ten bucks! This is about a group of angry and silly and handsome young people who decide to corrupt the youth of today for a good reason.




Patricia(The Coast)


This is a short story that opens another novella that I am working on. The outline of that novella is laid out in the first paragraphs of this story. I am very excited about it. BUT IT'S SECRET, SO DON'T TELL ANYONE.



XXX(The Coast)



This is a story I wrote in New Orleans. I went in the summer of 2005 and I don't know what to say about of it. New Orleans has stayed in my head better than San Francisco, where I had more fun. 




Math stories


These are a few stories that I thought it would be fun to write. They're a bit, uh, dirty! Also, maybe you'll like them!






NON-FICTION:




Halt!





Halt! is an essay I wrote about my short stint as a security guard. I worked for a company called Securitas. They are bucket-fillers.



Email me if you like any of these!