JMPerkins

Normal Heights February 9, 2024 Blog & Home For the last ten years, I’ve been living in Normal Heights in a below market 2 bedroom apartment in a sagging, decaying 8 unit

Enlightenment & Reductionism February 9, 2024 Essays I was reading about enlightenment the other day (from a thread on twitter I can no longer find). The basic premise was

AI and Art Making January 16, 2024 Blog In my life, I have seen a cambrian explosion of computational machine capabilities. Machines (or more specifically programmed algorithms, neural

September 26, 2023 J.M. Perkins is a best selling author who designs games, writes stories, and spends far too much time thinking about monsters. To read his digital

Fiction Publications September 26, 2023

I write fiction, short stories, and novels. You find links to buy my novel or short story collections below in addition to links to my full

Gaming Publications September 25, 2023

I write and make games. My most popular project has been the Salt in Wounds Campaign Setting, but you can find links and descriptions to all my

Kid World August 30, 2023 Blog I’m in kid world, that place where my days are driven by the tempo and rhythm of children (usually but not always my kid). I’m in kid world much,

Fatherhood 8 Years In July 19, 2023 Essays Elliott flourishes, and this pleases me. She has friends and family. She has school and her dog. She has more or less good

Archival Quality June 12, 2023 Blog I’ve never been much an editor, much less an archivist. That said, I’ve always bucked against my own leanings and biases; felt like I should be a

A New Moon June 12, 2023 Blog I lost writing, for a time. It was one of a myriad of things I threw on the pyre of trying to keep a failing marriage going, mortgaging

Story Capture June 1, 2023 Essays Human beings live inside stories. Perhaps it is possible -with brain injury or with enlightenment- to live outside them rather than simply take

Meditations April 24, 2023 Essays I started writing this when I was 19. I had less chill then, was prone to imagining that hardness would allow me to be what I wanted

Mona January 4, 2023 Nonfiction I recently performed a story I wrote for So Say We All’s show, VAMP. Here’s a link, possibly embed. And if you prefer the written version, that’s

Time's Garden August 8, 2022 Blog Time used to be different. We used to make time with the animals and plants. Spring was when daffodils bloomed, which varied year to year as we

A Pile of Dead Selves August 2, 2022 Blog Death and rebirth is the name of the game. Rising, only to fall, only to rise again; life and death, victory and defeat, expansion contraction – the

The Grooves June 1, 2022 Blog I used to suffer from optimization sickness. Whatever I was doing, I thought I could do it better. Whatever I accompished, I thought I could do

Things I Never Regret April 12, 2022 Blog I never regret camping. I never regret going out dancing. I never regret writing. I never regret having an adventure with my kid. I never regret

Status Hacking April 2, 2022 Essays Depending on what door you enter a building through, your mannerisms, your _; the same data/information will be interpreted differently as

The Numinous, Trauma, and What Comes After August 2, 2021 Essays Imagine you see a UFO. It doesn’t have to be a UFO, but Something that doesn’t fit in your worldview: light(s) in the sky not following all the

The River October 3, 2020 Blog Growing up, I spent a fair amount of time white water rafting with my family. We traversed most of the rivers available in California and beyond: