My first short story came out today! It's an experimental piece about a golem that's written half in assembly language, and the magazine had to put me in my own category, but it's published! http://bcrossing.org/not-born-but-built/
First Short Story Published!
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I can't say I understand the assembly language, but the English parts are beautiful and sorrowful. A lovely piece. Congratulations. 
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I can't seem to get it to display. I'll try later, 'cause now I'm intrigued by "assembly language," definitely! Congrats, L. O'brien.
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I can't seem to get it to display. I'll try later, 'cause now I'm intrigued by "assembly language," definitely! Congrats, L. O'brien.
And howdy, TAMaxwell!
It's kind of in a weird format. If you see it but are unable to scroll down, for me I had to put my cursor over the bottom of the page and click on the arrow for next page rather than being able to scroll down.
It's really cool and it looks a bit prestigious:
The writing is excellent and the concept intriguing, a cross between poetry and a short story.
I'm not positive if I'm seeing all of it or losing some because my OS is showing code where words should be. Is the epilogue just a couple lines of code or am I missing the words?
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Thanks guys! I really appreciate the support.
The prologue and the epilogue are both just code. In assembly language, those snippets of code are actually referred to as a prologue and an epilogue, and they're used to start initiate and exit a program, respectively.
Thanks for checking it out!
The prologue and the epilogue are both just code. In assembly language, those snippets of code are actually referred to as a prologue and an epilogue, and they're used to start initiate and exit a program, respectively.
Thanks for checking it out!
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