Douglas Lucas
Excerpt
"Let go!" I screamed. He did. I slumped my whole body, leaned to one side, and stomped away toward the living room, kicking aside video games and DVDs as I went. It was hard to slump and lean and stomp all at the same time, and I had this slight feeling I was acting, but to hell with that, because everybody's always acting, wearing different hats at different times. What was worse was that everything I sensed seemed like some sort of tissue-paper-thin curtain. At any moment someone was going to tear the curtain back and there I'd be, caught.
Bio
This year I got married! Less amazingly, I work as a writer, tutor, and for the Fort Worth Independent School District, as a substitute teacher. Also I'm studying for a regular school-teaching certificate. In 2008 I attended Clarion West Writers Workshop, and that year I graduated from Texas Christian University with a double major in writing and philosophy. My wife and I live in Texas.
Clarion West unsheltered me and gave me confidence. Please donate to this wonderful organization to promote the training of new literary and para-literary writers!
Publications
"The First Death of 2057," Descant 2007
Writing Description
A friend described my stories as trails left by an intense, slightly chaotic laser beam; I'll add that I prefer writing accessible, well-plotted fiction that incorporates irony, "unreliable" narrators, and philosophical questions. Currently I'm challenging myself to write from the first-person perspective of characters whose backgrounds, occupations, and ways of processing experience differ radically from mine.
Goals
Each of the six weeks I'll either write a complete, good first draft of a new short story, or finish revising an older, in-progress one.
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