Someday I'll actually write something.
And I don't mean the soap scum that is this public record.
I mean actually 'write' something worth reading.
I've decided that one of these months I'm just going to spend
it writing down stories and fleshing out essays.
My stash of seedling thoughts number in the hundreds as I have
collected notes on various thoughts and ideas into various
folders on my desktop.

It's about time I planted a few.
I'm consider collecting short stories and essays together
into a book form. And what would I call this book of essays?

Short Forms

-- by Chris Stones
A book of essays.

"By 2009 words would be slugged out by electronic machines.
Not by the metal and gears of yester years. Text is instantly
published at will. And clutter has become the norm while good
works of writing have become the exception.
The hassle we find while we walk amongst the web is the
slow rotting of our perceptions as hastily written words bleed us
of our patients to intake new works of worth.
There is just too much waste to not consider using an AI."

--(excerpt from: The Other Reading Machines by Chris B Stones)

"When I was little, I had written a few short stories.
I stopped doing that a long time ago. And I could never
pick it up again for I could not find the right theory of
writing to deploy. I balk at the English Literature folk for
I am not convinced by their arguments of metaphors and
symboligies. I still don't know what good writing is. If I
could theorize on the nature of good writing and write down
exactly what I thought it was. If I had the right theory
and I can answer this question explicitly I would write
a program that would go on writing.
I write in Code and English
and maybe my code would write English someday."

--(excerpt from: The Mathematics of Plot by Chris B Stones)

"I make no distinction between math and art. The rules of
physics set the stage for the artistic mediums. But living trapped
with the ancient arts is hardly a place to live out one's creative
life. To bolt free is to accept that the full range of physics offers
a canvas more detailed and more grand than any one thing that can be bought
at an art store. To write a short code and have it etch on
the desert for eternity, manifesting as changes to pieces of reality long
after you are gone. Such is the power of this new art form.
The one that deploys the full might of physics to brush with equations
and place reality back in a frame."

--(Excerpt from: The Art of Math by Chris B Stones)

"The game changed so fast. First it was fire and now it's these
monsters that have our wrists shackled to our desks. And the change
has not subsided nor will it. While the mind took a good while to
get here, it isn't going anywhere but while we wait for the change
to overtake us let us consider societies present course. Is this a world
in which we still can understand well enough to live in? Can the average
person make a mark and remain solvent while living in insoluble times?"

--(Excerpt from: The Civil Mind by Chris B Stones)

"How big can a democracy be? What factors affect the efficiency
of the system? And will the wisdom of the crowds ever break down?"

--(Excerpt from: The Democratic Schematic by Chris B Stones)

And oh so much more....

Someday I'll be a writer.
An actual writer...
but I still won't give a damn about the English language.