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• New!  Book Project (Novel) (password protected)
  
  Note: the system should prompt you for a "User Name" and a "Password". The username should be "novel", without the quote marks. If I have given you the password, just type it in, and you should get access to the novel. If the system somehow is not letting you in, please send me an email at my gmail account, given on my main web page. If you wish to get access, you can also ask for the password using my gmail account.

• New!  The Orthodox Poetic: A Literary Catechism, by Arvid Shulenberger, 1963.
  An outline of literary theory. (I am posting a copy of this special work because it is no longer readily available.)
  Human Nature?, a short reformatted excerpt.

• The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  Two versions illustrate revision by a master poet.

• Jane Austen on Writing
  Austen gave criticism to her niece, Anna Austen.

• Worst mathematics article ever written
  An example of terrible mathematics (no content, terrible exposition).

• The Ship Channel, a short story
  Written before the first bombing of the World Trade Center.

• Rats in the Attic, Panic, a short story.

• Artificial Intelligence, a short story.

• Getting Tenure at a University, a pamphlet (PDF).

• Pavorati the Barber Fish, by John Wagner
  Written when he was eleven years old, using the name "Nate".

• 90-word Story: really short.

• Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.

• Parables (two of my own).

• Children's Reactions to Their Therapist's Pregnancy, by Deborah L. Callanan, M.D..
  Published in Child Psychology and Human Development, Vol. 16(2), Winter 1985, pages 113-119.

• J.R.R. Tolkien Needed a Copy Editor

• 100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English