i am static electricity

Just to give a quick reply and start the ball rolling, your first and third links are malformed and inoperable. I went to fix them but when I searched for the correct URLs the server said it was backing itself up and didn't let me search. Time for that later.

I recall reading your 'pushed down the stairs' story and found it was amusing and interesting as an ILE thread. Since context is important I have no idea how it would read as a contiguous story. The nearest way to replicate the thread context in a more traditional form would be to write it in poem format, with each post given its own line. It might work that way.

I'll have to go back and reread it more closely before I could say anything more. I tend to read ILE threads pretty loosely and undemandingly. If you want feedback regarding these pieces as stories, expect a bit more rigorous reading would be in order.

Make that all three links inoperable.

that is odd. here

i quit my job and bought a boat
i was blindfolded and pushed down a flight of stairs
i made a man redundant

as far as traditional forms go i am more interested in a new form of improvised writing vis a vis short spurt-thoughts, a form encouraged by the structure and style of ile. in the future i would like to make use of the instant feedback available during the writing process, which i currently typically ignore, and would like to work more on returning storytelling to an oral form.

these are essentially traditional oral stories, made up as i go along, but presented in written format. they are imperfect by design but hopefully make up for that with a certain momentum and danger that can be lost with revision and analysis.

Well, as far as traditional forms go, what you are writing are words and so are those other forms. It is possible to do what you've done without the medium of writing, by launching into the story much as a parent telling a spontaneous bedtime story - an oral one-off - but that isn't what you are doing. You're writing the words. So, the form is mainly how you bunch them.

Your methodology of using short spurt-thoughts written without revision is an interesting one, but it is no different in intent than any other self-imposed severe limitation, such as writing in triple roundels or using no words that do not begin with the letter 'a'. The limitation acts as a creative springboard to add energy to your leap and dive. The results are what matter - the words and their order - ultimately. Methods are just pathways and forms are just clothes hangers for the words.

The stories you are telling have a very nice sense of being assembled ab ovo and have the unconstraint of dreams. They end in as desultory a fashion as dreams do, too. It's like stringing beads one at a time. You either run out of beads or run out of string. Being short, this doesn't become so much of a liability as it would in a long story. People are more satisfied with a simple arc if it's brief.

You're doing fine as far as I can see. You've got a good command of the strengths of your format and some nice story elements. Keep it up. I enjoyed them, which is always a good response.

Excuse me for butting in, but how in the world are stories you have made up and written down traditional oral stories?

Isn't that like saying that the meat you have prepared and cooked is a freshly killed boar?

I suspect he doesn't mean "traditional oral stories" so much but rather that other tradition of telling stories on the fly (orally) and adapting them based on the whims of the audience etc. But not in the sense of it being a traditional story that the audience is familiar with before it begins, etc.