Some of my stories, some are fiction, some are real.
Bethany (1989)
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I wrote this story in the first week I lived in Los Angeles. It was before “Ecstasy” hit the masses. I remember drinking about 4 pots of coffee in my crappy room that I was renting at 27th and Normandy in Compton. 1989… yep kind of freaky. Anyway- it needs to be noted that...
The Space Between Numbers (2009)
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This story is based on dreams that I was having at the time. (As most of my stories are). I was lucky enough to have a friend, Ken Ricci, give me a few pointers on what I thought was my final draft. So as a tribute to his insights, I changed the name of the...
Final Days
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The following is a recollection of my thoughts that detail the two years following my father’s cancer diagnosis. I present it in its original, unedited state…. more out of a respect for the integrity of accuracy. But I also feel compelled to point out that my feelings towards my sisters is not what I...
Baseball, Hotdogs, and Assholes Driving Chevrolets (2002)
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This is an open letter to the Asshole Corvette Driver that ran me off the road a few months back. Now before all of the rest of you GOD-Fearing, Self-Respecting-Not-Speeding-AND- Staying-on-Your-Side-of-the-Road-Corvette-Owners get your panties in a bunch…. deep breath. Breathe. Again. Now. Now that we are all calmed down- this letter is to a...
Plurality (2007)
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I first became aware of the “plurality” of dimensions on a walk one night. It came, unbidden, as a sudden rush forward not unlike the comic book depiction of The Flash at full speed. A kind of motion blur tug from the center of my body – very similar to that first moment the rollercoaster...
The Tragically Short Span of the Human Mating and Life Cycles (2006)
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(And the End of Life as We Know It) “Now, as we can see from the data plotted out from the last nearly 4,000 years, we are currently experiencing the lowest population growth in the history of mankind. It is my belief that we have actually passed zero growth for the first time ever and...
To Our Future Selves and Family
To the people that come from us-
Our Sons and Daughters,
Close friends,
Us.
What we will be in ten years
Twenty
The people we become
And the people we will have
Created.
They will consider this day with a
Perspective that can only be
Imagined
But we are here
It is my belief
That we become
That which we most believe
We will become.
To Our Future Selves and Family
On this uncommon day
May this message come to you
At a time when your understanding of
This day
Will be most clear
Uncommon for the uniqueness
Of the occasion
And of the people here
Now
Today two people
Have Chosen to share with us
An affirmation of their acceptance of the other
As an equal
And as a half.
Equals in all ways
Yet, needing the other
To compliment the whole.
Choosing to find the path
Through life
Together
Committing
To always be there for the other
Knowing there will always be one
There
For
Them
And in doing so
They declare
That who they have decided to become
Will be defined
By one another
And their actions
Today
This uncommonly day
When we are brought together from
Our own commitments to share
In this
One
The simple acceptance
That this most uncommon of days
Is the beginning of all we’ll
Become
Brian Oliver
8/23/97