luke
 luke t. bergeron is a writer and a techie. He likes eating stir-fry, experimenting with new forms, and is powerfully interested in new forms of media. He is the author of a novel, a novella, a book of poetry, and several short stories. He is currently at work on a second novel and a comic book. |
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 Disappearances tells the story of a young man mentally disconnected. Early one morning he’s awoken from a restless sleep by a plane crash outside his apartment window. Rushing down to the scene, the young man is unable to find anyone – no people, no rescue workers, no survivors. He is alone. Everyone he loves, everyone else on the planet as far as he knows, has disappeared.
The young man sets off on a journey through the deserted landscape of America and his own memories that taxes him both physically and mentally. After months of searching, the young man finally finds one man, a grizzled old guide named Frank. It is with Frank, sitting by a fireside in an Arizona canyon, that the true test begins. Frank’s task is to listen to the young man’s story, help him discover the secrets behind the disappearance of everyone he loves, and most importantly, to reconnect the young man with the rest of the human race. But before the young man can do that, he needs to learn the most important lessons about himself, his father, and how to move forward with his life. |
.tech is a collection of poetry about technology, artificial intelligence, video games, and the digital lifestyle. A few of the poems contain actual computer code, and can be read as poems or run in their appropriate compilers. Download the Poetry Book: The poem “building” also has a stylized audio version:
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Neither a Borrower is a novella set in the near future, where debt in America has skyrocketed and debtor’s prisons have been reinstated. But the prison term isn’t the worst part of the punishment. Neither a Borrower follows the struggles of a young woman named Sacha as she is imprisoned, injected with a virus, and forced to deal with a new life inside a debtor’s prison and her feverish body. Download the novella: |
Madeline’s Children is a science-fiction short story about a scientist named Noah who clones his wife’s DNA to make little girl super-soldiers. his wife is livid. Download the story: |
Venn Diagram is a short story about a guy named Stan who can’t choose between the two most important parts of his life. Download the story: |
The Canoe is a nonfiction story about a group of brothers and their misadventures on a lake one summer in Maine. Download the story: |
Waiting is a story about a guy named Jack who returns to the small town he grew up in, ten years after he left. He’s returning to attend an ex-girlfriend’s wedding, but that’s not the real reason. And he knows it. He’s just sick of waiting. Download the story: My Site (PDF) |
Time to Get Up is about a young man who goes with his mother to bail his kid sister out of jail. Download the story: |
| The Dynamic Conversation Engine is a concept that describes a new type of interaction style between players and Non-player characters in computer games. |
| This is a raid boss encounter concept for World of Warcraft. It’s my design, and not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment in any way. |
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