impoverished artifices

The Site

Impoverished Artifices is host for collaborative storytelling, digital narratives and experimental writing of any kind that the community wishes to publish.

The name is from Jorge Luis Borges' essay on Aflredo Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel, in which Borges refers to the tenants of Realism.

Me
I (Jay Johnson, jjohnson, @dr_morel, etc.) am a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, focusing on creative writing (fiction).