Grayson Bray Morris

Prowling the meanings of a word… all those little kidnaps in the dark.

Anne Carson

Selected Translations

From 2002 through 2019 I worked as a freelance translator from Dutch into American English. This is a tiny sample of that work. All links are external. All works are protected by copyright and not subject to the license I use elsewhere on this site. Excerpts shown here in accordance with fair use law.

Novels

Planet Paradroid: A psychedelic dark comedy about friendship, love, and the meaning of death

by PJ Pancras

Tex had fallen asleep. A dreamlike, euphoric sleep, in which snowflakes gently floated, one by one, to the ground. Dancing alone in the dusky twilight, like tiny enchanting creatures, until they vanished into the white layer of ice that covered the concrete as if they had never existed. Finally. Together. At least they had that.

The Eagleton Seal

by Arjen Terpstra

The current slowly nudged long waves around craggy Fastnet Rock toward Ireland’s southwest coast. Closer to shore, the shallow water hastened the waves along, and like a giant, snorting animal, the mass of black water rose up suddenly, twisting until the mighty wave crashed in white froth against the gray cliffs, chasing innumerable seagulls into the air, then sank back into the sea as a fine crystalline mist.

Non-Fiction Books

ASML’s Architects: The story of the engineers who shaped the world’s most powerful chip machines

by René Raaijmakers

At the start of the sixties, the Philips Physics Laboratory—Natlab for short—is a superuniversity where only the best and brightest are welcome. At its facility on Philips’ industrial campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, these whiz kids are free to conduct research under ideal conditions: they don’t have to teach class, and Natlab’s budgets are virtually unlimited.

The Road to Integration: A Guide to Applying the ISA-95 Standard in Manufacturing

by Bianca Scholten

ERP systems are only valuable if you supply them with current data, and these data originate largely from the PCS layer […] Users of ERP systems think, “Boy, the system really produces terrific reports,” but they don’t realize that their colleagues at the “bottom” are busy entering all these data by hand.

Defusing Destructive Relationships: How to recognize psychopathy and contain its damage

by Jan Storms

The psychopath’s mental illness has all the outward signs of mental health. It’s this misleading ordinariness that reassures us, flatters us, draws us close as a friend or a lover, with the single goal of draining us dry and destroying us. Psychopathy is parasitism disguised as human kindness, innocence, fairness and reason, goodness, superiority, help, and needing help.

Articles