My real name is not michael mcblack, though I do think it sounds cool.

I'm a musician. I write to express what my music can't. Music can do anything, but it can't do everything.

I have no real training in writing, so feel free to laugh when I do something dumb.

I like it when people think, and I'm gonna say that's a goal of my writing here.

I really hope you enjoy my work. Thanks.

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1. Doorman Held Up

Up a tree.

Complete - Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 275 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-22-08 - Published: 7-22-08

2. Bon Voyage

People go on vacation and never come back. Or maybe there was nowhere to go back to in the first place.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-5-08 - Published: 7-5-08

3. Gone In The Streets of NY

Some might call this a folk song.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 210 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-5-08 - Published: 7-5-08

4. Hanged Song

I saw that Bob Dylan documentary "No Direction Home".

Complete - Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-19-08 - Published: 5-19-08

5. One Quiet Night

Try and relax.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-12-08 - Published: 5-12-08

6. Electroshock

Electroshock Therapy is an old procedure mental institutions use in which the patient's brain is subjected to a series of electrocutions. Used to fix things.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-6-08 - Published: 1-6-08

7. False Repository

Memory loss. Open to MUCH interpretation.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-3-08 - Published: 1-3-08

8. You Never Watch The Road When You Drive reviews

Distracted by waste.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

9. World Traveler

Based on a dream.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

10. Wednesday reviews

Every damn day.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

11. Spell's Welcoming

Season's greetings.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

12. Security

Ignorance of the surrounding environment. Or just consequences of ignorance. Something like that.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

13. Searching For A Hole In The Wall

A bad experience at an airport. Or anywhere busy. You're just trying to get away.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: M - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

14. Hail To The Powerless

Driving to and from Hartford, CT, in a little rain. Feeling alienated. A failed attempt to comfort.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 366 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

15. Time Is Passing

The branches that a walk in the woods might stem.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 284 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

16. You Better Head Back, Son

An arrangement of a passage from the book Ordinary People 1980 by Judith Guest.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 183 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

17. Big Deal

Waving your hands in the air.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

18. Jamaican Keychain

I was cooped up in a college dorm in Rochester, NY. I wanted to be somewhere else and I realized I had this keychain with a sail boat and things that said JAMAICA on it.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 163 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

19. Into The Sun

The revelation that the religion you were brought up to believe in doesn't really appeal to you.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 430 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

20. Secret Meeting

You never know.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

21. Room

Things just go so fast.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

22. Streets

I was in Boston and thought of New York.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

23. Solstice

A comfortable daydream.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

24. River Run

Sometimes it's too late to remember the fragility of human life.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

25. Like Fish Upstream

Song lyrics.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

26. Rumors That Prove True

I was thinking about how people can change very quickly and what would happen if a good friend of mine did.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

27. How Perfect reviews

A note I found on my kitchen table in suburbia. I stared at it for about five minutes. It just kind of freaked me out.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 38 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

28. Hill

Something's bugging me.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

29. Goodbye, Regretful reviews

Cross your heart.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 414 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

30. A Fatal Error

Government machines aren't always good intentioned.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07

31. Annual

There's a lake I drive by.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 224 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-18-07 - Published: 12-18-07