How science fiction helped me understand my mental disorder.

One of my Clarion classmates, who literally chopped up the scenes of the story and tried to physically re-construct in temporal order. I took this photo just before she attacked me with her scissors for making her read this confusing clusterfuck of a story.

My first week at the Clarion Writer’s Workshop, I decided to kick things off with a bang: an 8,000-word short story that never ended.

Clarion is a highly-renowned training ground for sci-fi/fantasy writers, so naturally, I wanted to make an impression. Hence, I introduced…