Mike Underwood

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Excerpt

Deep blue mood lighting fills the room, with gel-sculpted couches, news feeds on the wall-panels, and local rock DJ-ed off one of the flesh artist's rigs.

Our artist is agelessly young, fleshmodded to look like a golden age anime heroine. Her eyes take up a quarter of her face, and her mouth is no wider than my thumb.

-- From "Kachikachi Yama" (Unpublished)

Bio

Michael R. Underwood writes speculative fiction between doing historical fencing, dancing tango, and teaching web design. He holds a M.A. in Folklore Studies, which he uses more in his writing than in his day jobs. Michael graduated from the Clarion West 2007 workshop last summer and proceeded to turn his week three story into a novel, currently in revision.

Writing Description

I cast my writing under the aegis of speculative fiction so I can smash together all the genre bits I like and make something wonderful out of them. My work ranges from post-structural identity theory coming-of-age fantasy to tango space opera. I strive to make my writing thoughtful but playful, energetic and optimistic.

Goals

I intend to revise a short story or novel chapter each week for the Write-a-thon.

Website

Progress on my writing and life can be found at http://ninja_turbo.livejournal.com

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