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Folio

Consider this my collected works. My anthology. This is all I have to offer to the modern world. The Folio is created from three distinct sections of this Web site. Two represent my published work. The last is what I'd like to get published one day.

Only time can reveal whether I will feed myself with fruits of my writing. However, if the past is instrumental in deciding the future: I will remain a hungry lad.

Clipsheet

Herein lie the most important part of this Web site. This is it folks. This truly is all that I've contributed to the great beyond. My contribution to the human race. It's slim pickings, I know.

This section is the repository of all work, generally non-fiction work, I've been fortunate enough to be published in the mainstream media. In periodicals. Newspapers. It helps to adjust your expectation of “mainstream" before entering.

Fiction

My passion, my life, is devoted to self-loathing. A bubbling hatred and anxiety of myself, and packaged for myself. You should try it. It's fun. But when I need to get away for a while, you know, take a break, I like to spend time writing about my my self-loathing. Included here are the sporadic pieces that have come from such sessions. Most are not finished, or polished, or published. Most will never be. Just another thing to learn to love about me.

Fish Wrapper

A fish wrapper is what those in the newspaper business call yesterday's news. Breaking news today lines tomorrow's bird cages. It's a tough, tough world out there.

It is in this light that I use the endearing term to place above my personal journal writings. Sensitive topics have been censored, but most are left “as is." It's the only place on this Web site that my statements may be unequivocally interpreted as my opinion at the time of the writing. Beyond that, it's a buyer beware situation, let me tell you.

Roy Schardin. Harrisburg, Pa., November 2004. Roy Schardin. Harrisburg, Pa., November 2004.