Written by DC Palter
Thank you for visiting my Web Page. I have put my short stories here for you to read. The stories are divided into three groups, a collection of stories about life in Japan entitled "Japan Still Life", a collection of stories about obsessed people entitled "Palteresque", and a few other stories that don't fit into either of the two collections, which I have listed under Miscellaneous.
Some of these stories have already been published in print form, mostly in literary magazines. Others are in search of a publisher, while some still need work.
This is a collection of short stories about obsessions and how they take over their owners. Many of these stories are as bizarre as the characters they focus on, but are among my personal favorites.
This is a collection of short stories about life in Japan. The central focus is three friends, J.D., an American, George, a Canadian, and Yoshi, a Japanese. They meet at a Gaijin House in Tokyo and experience both the good and bad of Japan together. My name, DC, derives from the character J.D., not the other way around. These stories vary in style from the very silly to the very serious.
These are stories that don't fit into either Palteresque or Japan Still Life.
I was the fiction editor of the Abiko Quarterly, the leading English language literary magazine in Japan, for many years while I lived in Japan and worked on my own short stories. Many of the stories shown here have been published in a variety of magazines in the U.S. and Japan. At the current time, I'm working on a novel, Compulsion 1.0, about life at a start-up during the dot.com boom. The book is actually finished and in search of a publisher, so if you happen to be out drinking with Rupert Murdock and he asks if you know of any great novels about the tech industry floating around waiting to be published, tell him to give me a call.
In addition to these short stories, I am the author of Colloquial Kansai Japanese, a fun guide to the Osaka-Kansai dialect of Japanese for English speakers, published by Tuttle. It was originally published under the name of"Kinki Japanese," and is still better known by that name. (The name change was Tuttle's choice, not mine, but I'm thrilled that they've kept it in print for more than ten years.)
On a completely separate note, I also wrote the not-as-fun but very useful "Satellties and the Internet: Challenges and Solutions", a textbook on TCP/IP over satellite. It is unfortunately out of print now, but if anyone is looking for a copy, I have boxes and boxes of them sitting in my closet. E-mail me at dc@dcpalter.com for details. Along the same lines, I've written plenty of articles on WAN acceleration, satellite communications, IPv6, and similar topics for many trade publications.
When I am not writing, I'm busy at Apposite Technologies, where we develop the Linktropy WAN emulators, some really useful computer network test equipment.
If you have anything nice you'd like to say, shoot me an e-mail to dc@dcpalter.com. If you have useful, constructive criticism, that's always welcome, too.