Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:29:33 -0400 From: OF FICTION AND POETRY DISCUSSION LIST -Chris Mortell Subject: Filler/intro Welcome to my into. The vital stats: NAME: Chris Mortell AGE: 23 HEIGHT/WEIGHT/DISTCHAR: 5'7" 140 lbs., green eyes a bad haircut and i think i''m getting an ingrown toenail. HOME: haven't found it yet. EDUCATION: U of Illinois-Champaign majored in English, history, and bars GOALS: to have a publisher waste money to print words i didn't necessarily have to write PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS: I swear I never touched her Anyway, I'm a writer or trying to be. I'm a reporter right now for a small paper in central IL (Charleston) and it's getting harder and harder to hammer out images when you're being brainwashed with AP style. So I though checking out this list might help. Then again I thought that sixth shot of SoCo would help last night too. Moving on, there isn't much else to say. I come from a typically tortured minimalist suburban family (look don't touch and why don't you get a job that pays money) I'm in exile here among the corn and couldnt feel more foriegn if I only spoke french (educated, half-hispanic, w/ a chicago accent in farmland) All of which is to say I'm modestly lonely and need to here some good writer-talk and just some good talk. I'm also new online so I'll probably be sending all my commands to the list for the next year or so. Don't hate me because I'm an imbecile.