[The Writing Desk - Short Stories]
All stories © 1998 Maurice Dekker


Hey ho! We have an avid reader here, or someone who is lost. Well, whoever you are, have a look at these little pieces of writing. The ones marked with the Dutch flag () are in Dutch.

The Elusive One. Two Star Wars characters almost meet a third.

The Fallible One. A follow-up to The Elusive One. What happens when Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn finds himself tested to the limits of his patience when he is stranded on a deep space platform.

The Infallible One. A follow-up to The Fallible One. Qui-Gon Jinn arrives at Ord Mantell to find himself wrestling with assassin droids and a lot of unanswered questions.

The Rejected One. A follow-up to The Infallible One, this story reveals the truth behind Qui-Gon's rejection of Obi-Wan and the matchmaking role Yoda played in getting them together.

My Generation is about my generation and as yet unfinished...

Also The Clippings is not yet finished, but it's there.

ENEMIES is about everything that's hostile towards everything, if you know what I mean.

A Night Out is a short autobiographical story about a trip to a concert on Valentine's Day.

The Lighter. Don't try this at home!

His Whereabouts Were Unknown To All But A Few is a tragic William Burroughs-esque story.

The English Patient, Changes in the Representation of Character in the Transformation from Novel to Film. Yep, it's finished, it's huge, it's all my own, it's my graduate dissertation!

[Is Alm·sy a despairing saint, or just a fan of Cary Grant?]Longing for Love and Light is an essay about saints in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (the book, that is) in relation to Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers.

I'm Not Missing You Yet is an essay about 'translating' a scene from the book into a scene for the film The English Patient.

Deconstructing Deconstruction is an attack disguised as an essay on the mode of criticism called Deconstruction.

Mijn Kunstleven handelt over het eeuwige dilemma tussen 1 en 2, man en vrouw en wat dies meer zij.

De Kunst van het Schrijven is precies dat wat het zegt te zijn.

Het Relaas is het begin van mijn autobiografie welke horizontaal geschreven wordt, maar nog niet af is.

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