Short Stories and other writings
by Shawn Trivette
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Stories - Fiction
The Cult of Mary Poppins -- a Governor's School story
Pardon, Your Highbeams are On -- a dark story (nearly poetic, but not quite) inspired by driving in front of someone's high beams one night on the way home from swim practice during high school
Brothers -- a heartwarming tale of two brothers and a roller coaster
Scrambled Eggs & Bacon -- what happened to all of the fairy tale characters? find out here.
Amateurs -- written with Dan Smith for the SF/F class (kind of long)
The Closet -- a thoughtful piece about closets, and the confines that all of us face from time to time
Stories - Nonfiction
A Trip to South Carolina
Summer Job Experiences
Poems
Bad Magnetic Shakespeare Poetry
Roleplaying related
Dr. Longhorn Character Description
Strength in Weakness -- read Dr. Longhorn's description before reading this
Thoughts, opinions, and such
Send in the Clones -- An op-ed on cloning
Books -- Some of my favorite books
Essays -- Some essays I wrote for family and friends including updates on what was going on in my life
Faith -- A bit about my spiritual path
Pink -- The Pink Pages (a [VERY VERY old] bit on my life as a gay man)
Essays and Term Papers (Note that all are in Microsoft Word (.doc) format; also, revisions may be made for publication purposes or simply my own desires)
Homonegativism -- The culminating paper for an Honors Directed Study on Homonegativism and Sexual Prejudice (Fall 01)
Honors 1010 Revisions -- Another paper from an Honors Directed Study on revising our Introduction to Honors class (Spring 02)
Censorship is Not a Family Value -- My term paper for the Banned Books and Censorship Honors Colloquium (books used were Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite, Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman, and The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene) (Spring 03)
Straight Eye for the Queer Guy -- Two papers from my Introduction to Social Research class (Fall 03)
Drunk on God -- My paper on the Sufi mystic Rumi for Mysticism (Spring 05)
Many Paths, One God -- My paper on my major mystic, Ramakrishana, for Mysticism (Spring 05)
Opening the Door -- My (joint) research project on the stages of adjustment of parents of gays and lesbians (Spring 05; with Sherri Phillips)
Music
Psalm 139 - Piano/Vocal arr.
In the Name of God
Psalm 139 - Choral arr.