Uh-h-h ... where am I?

Love him though we do, my wife Barbara and I do not fool ourselves about the intelligence of our Himalayan cat, Ratliff, and we suspect the question above often lurks among his tiny little proto-thoughts, along with "What are all these things?" Those questions also, incidentally, seem pertinent to using the Web, so here's where you are now, and what all these things are ...

Who I am ...

Michael Shumate: fiction writer, and an archivist and manuscripts cataloger at Duke's Special Collections Library.

What you can get to from here ...

Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction, my award-winning site for hypertext fiction. This is the main thing in my section of the Web, and can take you all over the place.
My resumé
Some of my publications, fiction and non-fiction.

What you can possibly get to from here ...

... is the one picture of me that exists on the Web. Happy searching.

What you can't get to from here ...

Except by backing out, you can't directly get to a list of links labelled with either a four letter word beginning with "c" and ending with "l" I've seen enough of that word on the Web to do me until, oh, not the next millenium but the one after that. If you haven't read these words in the last five minutes and are beginning to feel withdrawal symptoms, well, sorry.

Last updated
July 27, 1997
by Michael Shumate
mshumate@acpub.duke.edu