Various writings of mine, from the silly to the serious. All material is copyright 2001-2005 Dave Lartigue. Much of this contains adult language, adult humor, and adult situations. Currently they’re kind of here in random order - I’ll sort them better once I get more up.

One of the first stories I remember seriously writing. It was written for my high school creative writing class. I then submitted it to the Writers’ Digest short story contest and got an honorable mention, which weren’t bad for my first story and being a youngun’ at the time. You won’t not know I was in high school at the time I wrote it, however.

Another one from the high school class. An interlude.

I have no idea when I wrote this. I think in high school, or not soon afterwards, but I’m not certain. It’s a fragment - I never figured out where to go with it after where it stops. I really like what’s in it, though. The main character’s name, Jeffrey, is a reference to when I was in grade school and we were asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. He said he wanted to be a hurricane.

Short story written some time in the late 80s to early 90s. I need to figure out an approximate date this was written. It’s the story of a loser, his octopus, and a ouija board. When I took a playwriting class I was going to try to adapt this to a play somehow, but the class ended up being screenwriting instead.

A somewhat experimental (for me) short-short story. Nothing groundbreaking, I was just playing with the form and a few other things. The title and tone were inspired by the album of the same name by The Cure. You might consider that a warning. This was from my creative writing class era, and was fairly well received. It’s the story of a dead relationship.

Another from that late-80s, early-90s period. The events in the main story are pretty much based on a true event, and I like the way they’re done, but the frame isn’t so hot. I read this one (and ‘Disintegration,’ I think) on Phil Simone’s radio show on KLSU, and possibly also at the “Writers’ Bloc” fiction reading at The Art Bar, both when I was at LSU. The title tells you what it’s all about.

In 2000 I got on a mailing list for “Top 5″, which did humorous Letterman-esque “Top Ten” lists. The same group then started the “Daily Probe”, which was an Onion-type satirical newspaper. I submitted a few stories to them and many of them were used. The Daily Probe still exists, but for some reason after a while I stopped writing stories. I won’t deny that I’m pretty much aping The Onion with these. I tried to use the original submitted text here if I had it, because the editor there made changes I wasn’t always thrilled with.

This is a humor piece I wrote for the now-defunct Flavacountry. It’s an article about the 2001 Chicago Comicon. Thanks to Sasquatch! for letting me repost it here. This is a cache of the page, all links on it may not work.

My review of Egyptian Campaign 2003, a gaming convention.

My review of Comicon 2002.

Another Flavacountry article I did that ain’t gonna win me any friends. All I can say in my defense is that if you don’t like it you obviously don’t get it.