This is a page for pieces of fiction. Most of it is unfinished, in progress, or quite raw.



I am also serializing some of my novels Movellas.com.





About me, what's to say? I write. I play the bamboo flute. I do Zen. I mistrust words but I love clean, direct sentences.





I live in the majestic Pacific Northwest. Today there was a hailstorm. After that the sky cleared, and I sat out under the blue sky amid shattered hailstones playing "Mukaiji" on my Tozan shakuhachi.





It's always been hard as hell for writers to survive. I've been through it all. I am the original starving beggar-artist, incapable of doing a thing in life but seeking out beauty and being destroyed by it. So, if you like what you read here, please consider buying one of two of my e-books on Amazon. If I sold a mere 20 Kindle books per day, I could make a living at this. Not likely! I know.





Note that I will soon also have printed editions for sale.





But I am fascinated by the brilliant prospects for digital literature -- ketai shosetsu (cell-phone novels, like my spare and minimal novel-in-verse THE LUZHANG BRIDGES).





Digital literature, I believe, offers a possible return to the direct starkness and spareness of some of the earliest forms of storytelling.





-Ku/Okamoto/Andrew Wilson



