I spent five years residing in the United States, from 1999 to 2004, and was living about 30 minutes away from ground zero in DC on September 11th, 2001. I was lying at home in bed when the planes hit, pretending to be sick and conceptualizing a story about an existentially displaced kid. After making a miraculous recovery later that day, I ended up going downtown, where I rapidly discovered that the entire city was deserted. Years later, in 2009, I wrote a brief novella which parodies some of the more heavily promulgated conspiracy theories of 9/11. It's mostly a series of psychological portraits which coalesce to form a speculative, lucid insight into the ominous mental undertones of that period. One of the minor characters in that story, an unnamed young adult with red and black hair, makes a brief appearance in "The Amygdala Parallel." David Presley is also mentioned in AP, and is a distant relation of Blaine and Axel. The full story is available here: http://www.mediafire.com/?2x870kbkja8i42k
