The thing that finally got him wasn’t the cancer,
nor was it the heartbreak or the cross-town bus,
it wasn’t never finishing the crossword in the Sunday Times
nor was it never having finished his novel.
It wasn’t the way his mom looked in that dress
or the way his dad looked in it three years later.
It wasn’t the empty bottle she left behind
or the way the cat looked at him when he came home.
It wasn’t genetics, it wasn’t environmental.
It wasn’t reasonable, it wasn’t eventual.
It wasn’t a coffee stain or hpster glasses.
It wasn’t the promise and it wasn’t the blood.
There was something else –
but he never found out what it was.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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