I recently rediscovered a manuscript documenting what has long been my most prolific year as a writer, 1992. Sjef’s Super Stories are what remains of my output during writing time in that last year of my primary school education. Each story was written out longhand in a long lost exercise book, spell-checked by a classmate, typed up during computer time on the Apple IIe clone in class and then glued into the cardboard storybook we were required to fabricate, finally reaching ‘published’ status.

Re-reading this collection a few weeks ago for the first time since then I laughed. I laughed hard. If these are half as funny to anyone else as they are to me they are worth sharing. My goal as far as writing is concerned is now clear, I must beat my eleven year old self. Hopefully one day I will be as awesome as I was back then.

Over the next month or so I’ll be authoring a story for the final assignment of the ‘Introduction to Cyberpunk‘ course, which will be the first fiction longer than 140 characters I’ve composed in the 18 years since that work in primary school. For entertainment while you wait and to set a benchmark against which to measure my progress (or lack thereof), I will post one of those old tales every so often till I’m done. You can expect the first installment to appear later this week.