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I have started a few more projects when I should be finishing those that are nearing completion. This list exists partially to motivate me, but is also meant to explain how far I have to go.

A collection of parables and warnings, Under the Frenzy of the Fourteenth Moon, is a set of short stories which outline the difficulty and splendor of imagination when confronting our varied world.

I have been working on a collection of stories about Canada Clouds in the Cultural Desert, in which I build a narrative about specific cities and regions in the country.

I have started another novel project, The Greenhouse Girl, which tells the story of a teenage writer who has picked a classmate as her writing subject, a choice which takes her places she never imagined.

The Long Bloom of the Failed State is a series of essays on politics which is closer to being done all the time.

I am still thinking about an academic examination of Thomas King's "One Good Story, that One." A Savage Indictment: The Mythos of Colonization in Thomas King's "One Good Story, that One" will be a longer project which uses a number of his other texts to interpret the story.

I have been writing a series of essays about Covid-19 and the media, as well as the public reaction to the virus' spread. Although that book is still in its early days, I am working on it between my other projects.

I have recently started to compile a collection of essays about creative projects, writing, editing, and what I think about publishing.

One of my latest projects is Beringia: The Discovery of Two Continents. In this novel I tell the story of a father who runs out of bedtime stories to placate his daughter. Night time is the worst since her mother left, so he distracts her by telling a history of their ancestors and how they crossed the land bridge and found North and South America. I plan for the novel to cover the entire settlement of the Americas as well as give a précis of the archaeological marvels that are found there. As well, since the story is meant to encourage a girl to sleep, the tale of indigenous people's arrival and settlement is told in the broad strokes of grand adventure and awe-inspiring journeying.

Historiography and the Corrupted Archive: The Postmodern Text, Fact and Confabulation is more of an academic work based on a talk that I gave, and undertakes to investigate and metaphorically figure how history, or a story, can be told when the archive has been deliberately corrupted or neglected for political purpose. This will likely be a longer project, and I am barely fifty pages into it. You can expect to hear more about it in a year or two.

I am still thinking about my book length explication of Jacques Lacan's enigmatic and evocative theory about the writteness of the self in my Jacques Lacan and Subjectivity.

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