CONNOR COYNE

Small Projects

NOTE: This list is currently incomplete; check back for updates. More recent years will be the most up-to-date. There are a total of approximately 140 small projects.

2006

The Babysitter
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted February, 2006.
I was still new to Benchworthy, Pennsylvania when I received my first commission. 'New' is a relative term with varying interpretations. Therefore, I'll make mine clear: I was 'new' inasmuch as I hadn't yet mastered the Benchworthian dialect. Though I'm told the form is closely related to English, after taking two months of remedial Benchworth I'd failed the test. My ineptitude might result in my being held back from Junior High. My name is Tina. I'm a babysitter."

Bloody Felchers
Third Family: Short Story
In progress.
"Bloody felchers!"

In Flint
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted May, 2006.
"In Flint, there is no longer any need for power to be bought from Detroit. The city supports itself using methane deposits that have seeped into the groundwater supply of Lakes Michigan, Huron, and St. Clair."

Julie's Set
Third Family: Short short
Drafted January, 2006.
"FIRST, the preamble. Z_n+1 = Z_n² + c"

A List of Places to Live Before I Die
Third Family
Drafted August 2001, revised 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
Consult link for information. Further information here.

Marco Polo's Myspace Page
Third Family
May, 2006.
Consult link for information.

Mr. Mouser and the Land of Dusk
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted March, 2006.
"I first interviewed Mr. Mouser on the 1st of March, in the year that Sisyphus was set free, at the end of the Cretaceous, in a vague fog. For decades, the man had lived in Dusk, that great country surmounting the North Pole, on an orchard just miles outside Violintasic."

Nimbus 24, 28. (including comments)
Third Family: Blue Skies Falling
Drafted February, 2006.
Consult link for information.

Oh,
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted April, 2006.
"Oh, Court, Lapeer, and Lippincott, oh, McPhall and Chelan and Whittlesey and Barks and Seymour. Oh, McAvoy and Burr. Oh, Wayne and Kent and sweet sweet Pingree."

Ooooo
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted February, 2006.
"The mutt yawned so expansively that one could look far down its throat into brown, cavernous depths. Frank sat in his chair by the Space Heater and petted the dog. Across the room, Beatrice applied the cherry flavored lip balm May had given her."

Pretty Penny
Third Family: Short Story
In progress.
CJ has lost the love of his life; he thinks an epic quest of rescue and adventure is in order. But first, he needs a haircut.

Sentimentality (not Preromanticism by Stuart Atkins)
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted 2006.
"Sentimentality -- and perhaps the Nordic atmosphere, and Bardic rhythms, and exotic doctrines could spread (as Shakespeare's England fostered political plays and histories, and the Germany of Goethe favored Lyric meters, of prose and verse, de la Motte, and of Sturm und Drang) the philosophic, (crypto mythic) metaphysical movements with an enthusiasm (and Savage speculation and irrational subjectivism) (from Nature's God to Reason and Virtue to the Gray Enlightenment to Klopstock and Lessing) (Diderot or Gessner) (Rousseau, Klopstock) (comèdie larmoyante) in literature and mythology, song and ballad, forms and motifs, issues and themes; such social revelation was only felt in Human horror and Gothic medievalism."

The Serpent (c/o Chevy Online / The Apprentice)
Third Family
Consult link for information.

Sunsetters
Third Family: Short Story
In progress.
My first project set in New York City, centering on the Inwood Hill Park at the northernmost tip of Manhattan.

Thimblebib, or, Questions and an Emulation for my Literature Seminar
Third Family
Drafted April, 2006
"I have just arrived at work. Relatively speaking; I actually arrived eleven minutes ago but I had to boot up the computer and stop at the bathroom for tissues and write a quick note to my supervisor explaining why I'm forty minutes late."

The Trail was Cold
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted March, 2006.
"I knew it was down there somewhere."

White Swan
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted April, 2006.
"You felt your stomach start to go when we breached the polar low. 'What?' I asked. 'What is wrong?' You blanched, your face bleached like the plains and ice and snow that rolled away across the Antarctic landscape.

The Wild Dogs Attacked (by Antique Olive)
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted February, 2006.
"Up on the State Streets it's not that unusual to encounter dogs roving in packs. One can always tell the wild dogs from the tame dogs because the tame dogs remain on their yards and on the sidewalks. The wild dogs walk on the street."

Your Share
Third Family
Drafted January, 2006.
"The Roosevelt Road bypass was bare as a bone from the Medical Corridor straight out to the lake. At least so it seemed to Tori who, unlike her brother, had excellent vision. She stood on the rung of the shopping cart and leaned into the distance."

2005

Baggage and Raptures
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted September, 2005.
"Crickets ply twilight. The heavens fell; murmured at three, mumbled at four, spoke at five, sang at six, and thundered at seven."

Buick City Blues
Second Family: Performance Art. Second version.
Performed July, 2005.
Each block, each street, each corner has a story.

Burroughs vs. Bergamot Third Family: Short short
Drafted October 2004, revised October 2005. Published in The Saturnine Detractor.
"On weekend mornings, Timothy jogged two miles between the northern rim of Burroughs Park and the southern tip of Woodlawn Park."

A Clockwork Vision
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted October, 2005.
"Today is tedious. But tomorrow could be calamity, cataclysms, earthquakes, comets, and degenerations!"

Fathoms
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted December, 2005.
"'You've got to hold still, Emma,' mother says. 'If you don't, then your hand will blur. You will have a ghost hand.'"

Kane'apua
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted December, 2005.
"I go. I go. I take blood above. I go to the top. I take blood."

A Party
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted September, 2005.
"Desiree climbs the stairs. She's entered the vestibule. Snow flies on the floor and the door shuts."

"You are the Hole in the Wall"
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted November, 2005.
"So you told us. You told us so. You sang it so on our last tour."

2004

Absolute Ascension
Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1997. Revised 1998, 2004.
"I've aspired to lift off leaves, tousle with breeze,
and I am forever tempted.
It is hard when the air is free, and the light weaves
zigzag mazes in its descent.

The Flag of Bangladesh
Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1996. Revised December, 2004.
"We will cast out over the world
someday,"

Fruitcake
Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1995. Revised 1996, 1997, 2004.
"Late-night order
  and the humdrum soul runs the new trial
  of passage through the pink wasteland
     (hollow because the wheels ground to a halt)."

Gothic Funk Mystery #1: Three Families. A Rivalry.
Second Family: Performance Art
Performed November, 2004.

Gothic Funk Mystery #2: Appletrack Manor
Second Family: Performance Art
Performed December, 2004.
"APPLETRACK MANOR is ceveral centuries old, and has an illustrious history. One of the oldest estates in Wessex, it is known most recently for it’s delicious distilled spirits, splendid orchards and their succulent fruits, the austere and noble Ambrose clan, that makes their abode their, but above all, the lush beauty of its sprawling grounds."

July 2003 in Flint, Michigan
Third Family: Poem Drafted July, 2003. Revised October, 2004.
"Never ten dollars. Rarely one.
Build another church. Build another church.
How many hours under the sun?
Build another church."

Maps and Television
Third Family: Poem
Drafted, revised December, 2004.
"Serrated spoons were dipped in small cups and lifted wedges of peach,
while on the TV screen, beneath the grain that grins upon
the oldest color TVs, Jimmy Stewart laughed and cajoled
his invisible rabbit friend."

Not a Suicide Poem
Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1997. Revised December, 2004.
"How great a distance is eighty feet?
Ask the High Flier at the Fair downtown,
from which eighty feet is measured straight down."

Points Scored for Home
Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1998. Revised December, 2004.
"'I live in the past and future; she lives in the present.'
-- a friend
If the past is a breath and the future a promise
then the present is promise and breath."

The Principles of Mathematics in Urbantasm
Third Family: Essay
Drafted 2002. Revised 2004.

The Rumor
Third Family: Short Short
Drafted February, 2004.
"'Have you forgotten?' she says, her breath casting cooling waves across her Earl Gray.

Thorn Sojourn Campaign
Second Family: Role-playing
From January, 2002 to September, 2004.

Toy's Escape, Pastoral
Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1996. Revised 1997, 1998, December, 2004.
"teddy bear run
far far away"

2003

My Fat Little Buddha
Third Family: Short Short.
Drafted 2003.

Nocturnal website
Third Family: Web Design, html
In collaboration with Sam Perkins-Harbin.
Created 2002. Updated 2003.

Saturn's Stepchild
Third Family: Fan Fiction (Harry Potter)
Drafted 2003.

Sestina for Ginny
Third Family: Fan Fiction (Harry Potter)

Drafted 2003.

2002

Forget Me Not
Third Family: Fan Fiction (Harry Potter)
Drafted, revised 2001, 2002.

Mary Sue and the Bombastic Booty
Third Family: Fan Fiction (Harry Potter)
Drafted 2002.

Urbantasm website
Third Family: Web Design, html
Created 2002.

2001

Andy Thought; Pauses for Breath
Second Family: "Beat Shift" Play
Drafted 2001.

Review of Lolita (by Max Zempfski-Shannon)
Third Family: Review
Drafted 2001.
"Lolita was a very Baa, Baa blacksheep movie. As I sit at my typewryter, my dog, Archie(1), yapping “Fast!” and my maid, Sweet Quim(2), yelling “Hush!” I reflect on a movie that, maybe, after all these years, must have been better to society in polluted ashes flitting up discountenanced skies."

Shadows Over the Ceahlau massif
Third Family: Fan Fiction (Harry Potter)
Drafted, revised 2001.

2000

1999

Afflicted by the Vice!
Second Family: Ten-minute Play.
Drafted 1999.

Boots
Third Family: Poem
Drafted, revised 1999.
"A figure oft paces,
and not till he sleeps,
and he rarely sleeps,
will his feet be relieved"

Love Sonnet in Blue Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1999.
"I asked my girl, 'My dear, what would you do
to save me from my sorrow and my blue?'
She said, 'I'd give it all and give it true.'
'But you just say what I would want you to.'"

Their Ascension
Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1999.
"'How much is 100,000
and how much is it worth?'
I’m only asking for the first time, this time,
Again and again, why I wasn’t told,
When the decision was made, and why nobody heard my opinion."

1998

The Tragedy of Luna and Spectra
Second Family: Ten-minute Play.
Drafted and revised, 1998.

1997

The Engine Sweeps
Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1996. Revised 1997.
"Ooooooooh."

Fly High
Third Family: Poem
Drafted 1997.
"How big of a distance could 78 feet really be?
Ask the High Flier at the Carnival,
For which 78 feet is a distance straight down,"

1996

1995

1994

1993 and before

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