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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Hi, I'm a writer.

I wrote a long reported essay about MetaFilter in which I interviewed mathowie and jessamyn and cortex and many other people and tell the story of the Russian girls who were seemingly in danger of being trafficked, and saved by the community: The Internet's First Family. It was discussed on MetaTalk here.

A few crowd favorites:
- The Legion Lonely -- about lonely men -- discussed on MetaFilter here
- my most widely shared short story: "The Life You Want".
- Miss Misery, a web series I made about open relationships
- The Jokes, a book of short stories

Many more things I wrote: http://stephenthomaswriter.com/.