Just passing the time...
"The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God-a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end."
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FranklinBarnes
May 11, 2024 03:40PM
A few more chapters to various things have been published and amended.This site is such a ghost town now. A real shame it's gone this way.View all Conversations
Stories by Franklin Barnes
TGIF
Mike Burbank, fresh out of college, believes that a cheery smile and bottomless drawer of fun socks is enough to keep him going at his new career at Infinitech. While all his friends find the work soul-sucking, Mik...
The Ducks of San Sebastian
There's no such thing as summer vacation at Heller High School, which its students have turned into a Silicon Valley dystopia in the name of self-improvement and maintaining a competitive edge. Marco Aguilar isn't...
The Mechanical Muse
College student Chris Marley agrees to help an enigmatic professor test a cutting-edge AI tool, but discovers he's entered into a Faustian bargain, and must fight to resist the temptation of power and save his soul...