“THE GILDED AGE”: STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME. Next section of current short fiction. Um… some notes. 1. I didn’t know the plot of this story when I started. So it’s much too cryptic, and many things will be made clearer in the final draft.
2. This episode, apparently, is my big tribute to envy and resentment. Woohoo!
3. (related) No characters are me. No characters are entirely not-me.
4. I’m still not sure what to think about this story. It may be useless, and I’ll end up junking it as an interesting experiment but nothing more. But I really like a lot of what I’ve written for it, even while mistrusting the basic idea of the story (alternate-history Victoriana, the trial Oscar Wilde never had).

Click here for story so far; here for most recent episode. I think there are one or maybe two more segments in the rough draft, though I’m sure I’ll change that around in the final version. Your comments, questions, howls of execration always welcome.

I grabbed you by the gilded beams–
Oh, that’s what tradition means!