Lincoln Trudeau's Writing Page

Much of the writing you will find here is stuff I wrote years ago (much of it in the early to mid 90s, with some stuff in the late 90s to present). Sadly, I've been too busy to add much recent stuff to the site but if you're interested in reading any of my more recent writing (stories, screenplays, etc.), feel free to e-mail me and I can send you some stuff that way. If you would like ito know what a Junk Mail Letter is, click on the link and I'm sure that will answer your questions.

This is a selection of the short stories I have written. For the most part, I wrote these several years ago. Just to cover myself here, a couple of these stories contain language/content/etc. that may turn you into a person who would yell things like "What if the CHILDREN see this? The poor, poor CHILDREN!" or "Why wasn't there a warning? This man must be stopped!"

Seems to me that about half of the net is porn and nothing I have in my stories is even remotely as offensive as what you'll find on any porn site. So no big deal. If you want to read the stories, click on them.

Dumb Luck is probably my personal favourite of the bunch and I don't want to spoil it but anyway if you're intrigued, check it out. Overkill is probably the most disturbing one you'll find. The Worst Story is my story about a writer who's going a little nuts (perhaps not so oddly, I've seen many writers do this sort of thing). The Day Stoney Cracked is the shortest story of the lot and that's all I'll say about that. J.C. is a sort of semi-futuristic version of the final days of Jesus Christ. I wrote this in Grade 12 and I'm not 100% impressed with the writing myself but I thought the idea was kind of neat.

Note: Dumb Luck is copyright (c) 1993,1999 Lincoln Trudeau. Overkill is copyright (c) 1994 Lincoln Trudeau. The Worst Story is copyright (c) 1994 Lincoln Trudeau. The Day Stoney Cracked is copyright (c) 1994 Lincoln Trudeau. J.C. is copyright (c) 1992 Lincoln Trudeau. Yep, I haven't written many short stories in a while.

What is a junk mail letter? Well, like most of you, I get junk mail. Most I recycle or throw away. Sometimes though, I get a letter in my junk mail that's so stupid, pointless, ridiculous or just baffling that I decide to write back a sarcastic reply; the end result is (in most cases) the people don't write back.

Occasionally I've written such letters to companies who think I owe them money or who won't leave me alone and usually, in the end, they see things my way (or they pretend they do because I give them headaches).

Note that there are two links for BMG -- the second one is a follow-up to the first one. Also note the junk mail letters are listed in chronological order (from left to right, from top to bottom, from earliest to latest). The more recent ones tend to be shorter (though not necessarily better) in case you're pressed for time.

Over the years I have written various columns, opinion pieces etc. on a number of subjects. Below are some of these columns. Some I wrote for school newspapers or magazines; some I wrote just because I felt like it. If you would like any details regarding a particular column (eg. why I wrote it, when I wrote it, etc.), just move the cursor over one of the buttons below (the part of the button without text works best) and a few details regarding the column will appear. These are listed in chronological order (least recent to most recent).

This section contains any writing that did not fit in any of the above categories. Some of this writing dates back to 1992 (one of the more involved pieces is a 1993 journal of a trip I took from Pickering, Ontario to Pasadena, Newfoundland); some of it is much more recent (including an angry review of the movie Wing Commander). In any case, new content will be added to this section as it becomes available so keep checking back for new links. If you're not certain what any of the buttons below are for, move the mouse cursor over them for a description or just click on a button: the page you go to should have all the info you'll need.