Reclaiming My Creative Work from Quora
I’ve recently decided to reclaim and archive a collection of stories and poems that I originally published on Quora during the early 2010s. These pieces represent a significant period of creative output for me, and I wanted to preserve them on my own website where I have full control over their presentation and longevity.
Quora was a great platform for sharing creative writing during that time (with a group called “Three minute Stories” primarily) - a real sense of community for a while, you actually got to hang out with like-minded (and different-minded) people. I can truly say, it was a truly enriching experience. Until, like any of these platforms that really need to turn a profit at some point, it wasn’t so much, and so around 2016 my contributions waned considerably, and I kind of forgot about all that content I put onto the platform.
As with any third-party platform, there’s always the risk of content being lost, changed, or made inaccessible.
By bringing these pieces back to my personal website, I’m making sure they’re preserved - you know, just in case Quora disappears or decides posts are a thing of the past. Still, at least there’s a fair chance portions of it might appear randomly in the story generators of the future in our new world of AI overseers!
The Collection
Here are the 21 pieces I’ve reclaimed and added to my creative section:
Stories (16 pieces)
- An overextended metaphor - A clever double-entendre story about a doorknob
- And Then There Were None - A dark tale about a candy jar and its final piece
- And those rocks in my heart - A sci-fi story about corporate corruption and cybernetic organs
- Cakes and Kittens - A heartbreaking story about child abuse and survival
- Cara’s Lost Kiss - A supernatural tale about lost love and tragedy
- Echoes of Fire - A ghost story set in a cursed hometown
- Love at The End of The World - A romantic apocalypse story
- Mother, Lover and Daughter - A complex family drama with dark secrets
- Our Souls - A psychological thriller about impossible choices
- Pinja lives - A philosophical story about experiencing life through different academic lenses
- Primal Beast - A sci-fi role-reversal story about evolved humans and “primitive” gladiators
- Space Walk - A meditative story about a near-death experience
- The Experiment - A satirical story about aliens experimenting with life on Earth
- Three ships - A philosophical tale about life, aging, and the constants in life
- Zebra Sex - An explicit sci-fi story about shape-shifting and future relationships
- Suzie the Savior - A disturbing poem about troubled youth and influence
Poems (5 pieces)
- Gossamer Lines - A poem about a train journey through English countryside
- In Search of Now - A contemplative poem about time and memory
- Last Night’s Chocolate - A sensual poem with chocolate imagery
- Me, Myself, I. - A dark poem about isolation and breaking point
- Rituals - A melancholic poem about daily life and routine
Why Now?
The decision to reclaim this content came from a desire to:
- Preserve my work - Ensure these pieces remain accessible regardless of platform changes
- Maintain creative control - Present them alongside my other creative works rather than have them hosted in other places on the interweb
- Share with new audiences - Make these older pieces available to current readers
Each piece has been carefully formatted to match the style of my existing creative content, with proper frontmatter, content structure, and attribution. I’ve also added appropriate keywords to help with discoverability while maintaining the original content exactly as it was written.
This collection represents a diverse range of themes, styles, and genres - from romantic and philosophical pieces to dark psychological stories and experimental fiction (I did like the ‘rug pull’ for a little while in my short stories). It’s a snapshot of my creative output during a particularly prolific period, and I’m glad to have it preserved here on my personal website.