innovative fiction as liquid architecture

by Lance Olsen

Originally published on July 30, 2007

“Perhaps an equally important question is how might we bring such amphibious notions out of the realm of abstraction and into the praxis of the creative-writing workshop, thereby inviting students to explore such possibility spaces themselves.”

Twenty Digressions Toward the Californication of History

by Lance Olsen

Originally published on June 13, 2006

Back in Nam, I was one of those guys they called the Tunnel Rats – the ones
small and thin enough to shinny down the camouflaged holes in the Cu Chi
jungle and crawl on their bellies through the marshy-hot burrows twisting
in near faultless darkness in a seventy-five-mile-long maze, rattle and
pop of automatic fire above them, millipedes skittering over their arms.