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A Resolution

2009-11-26T00:44:37-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 162, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-26-09, Published: 11-26-09
Status: Complete

I cannot abide the lack thereof.

Those Who Wrestle With Spirits

2009-11-23T02:10:18-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 3,397, Reviews: 0 Updated: 11-23-09, Published: 11-23-09
Status: In-Progress

A romance of confused youth, narodniks, God and politics in pre-revolutionary Russia. Written for that really silly contest where one tries to puke out a novel in a month.

Again

2009-10-23T23:07:47-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 110, Reviews: 4 Updated: 10-23-09, Published: 10-23-09
Status: Complete

turning, too fearful to go on.

The Watcher

2009-09-30T01:20:42-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Supernatural
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 8, Words: 12,419, Reviews: 8 Updated: 9-30-09, Published: 7-16-08
Status: In-Progress

Throughout her time at high school, Selene Douglass has felt a strange, if not exactly desirable, connection with fellow student Peter Sariel. As she gets to know him better, a surprising, dangerous explanation emerges...

The Terror

2009-09-20T02:26:13-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 203, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-20-09, Published: 9-20-09
Status: Complete

The faithless humanist ruminates.

Sloth

2009-09-09T01:15:41-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 129, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-9-09, Published: 9-9-09
Status: Complete

One of many manifestations.

A Fear

2009-09-03T01:10:19-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 228, Reviews: 0 Updated: 9-3-09, Published: 9-3-09
Status: Complete

...

The Fate of Holy Rus

2009-09-01T01:55:51-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Romance
Chapters: 22, Words: 25,981, Reviews: 57 Updated: 9-1-09, Published: 8-25-05
Status: In-Progress

Alternate history. Nicholas II abdicates in favor of his nephew, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich and his daughter Olga. Will this mismatched marriage be the salvation of Imperial Russia, or merely the damnation of their own souls?

A Reflection

2009-08-02T01:32:01-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 112, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-2-09, Published: 8-2-09
Status: Complete

Somewhat distorted by shame and disgust.

The Horizon of Heaven

2009-06-07T03:11:52-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Supernatural/Drama
Chapters: 7, Words: 10,023, Reviews: 7 Updated: 6-7-09, Published: 11-15-05
Status: In-Progress

The Old Testament's supernatural battle between Good and Evil, Akhenaten's religious revolution, the mystery of the Nephilim, and the Egyptian pantheon all come together in a tale of corruption, devotion, sin and truth...

The Avoidance of Teenage Romantic Attachments:

2009-03-09T01:06:54-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Humor/Angst
Chapters: 2, Words: 2,265, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-9-09, Published: 3-7-09
Status: In-Progress

A retrospective cautionary tale of adolescence in the male second-person, written entirely for the amusement of my Beginning Fiction Writing professor's red marking pen.

Obliteration

2009-02-14T03:17:34-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 181, Reviews: 0 Updated: 2-14-09, Published: 2-14-09
Status: Complete

Self-condemnation/glorification.

Emptied

2009-02-11T17:59:58-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 638, Reviews: 1 Updated: 2-11-09, Published: 2-11-09
Status: In-Progress

Reflections of loss, both personal and political. Berlin, early 1945.

The Greatest Loss of All

2008-02-19T00:06:19-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 195, Reviews: 0 Updated: 2-19-08, Published: 2-19-08
Status: Complete

Routine and social compliance. The silent killers. Thankfully conquered in the end.

The Bigamist

2007-12-26T23:09:39-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 180, Reviews: 0 Updated: 12-26-07, Published: 12-26-07
Status: In-Progress

For Heloise, who took the veil though she could not renounce her first husband, Abelard. 12th century France

Lady of Scarlet

2007-12-19T01:29:07-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 4, Words: 4,551, Reviews: 13 Updated: 12-19-07, Published: 5-25-06
Status: Complete

Rahab, a Canaanite prostitute, is obsessed with the mythos growing around a band of escaped Egyptian slaves, even as she plies her trade among the land's most affluent princes. Will her obsession lead to ruin or salvation?

For My Madeline

2007-11-07T22:27:35-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 135, Reviews: 0 Updated: 11-7-07, Published: 11-7-07
Status: Complete

The joy you bring me by merely being.

Beyond the CloudCloaked Stars

2007-05-27T20:54:48-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 177, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-27-07, Published: 5-27-07
Status: Complete

One can only hope that the end of naivety will breed something better. A modified villanelle.

Passion and Redemption

2007-02-20T15:19:57-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,811, Reviews: 0 Updated: 2-20-07, Published: 2-20-07
Status: Complete

An essay on the historical, spiritual and personal signifance of the letters exchanged between the logicianturnedmonk Peter Abelard and his wifeturnednun Heloise.

Bunmeikaika

2006-10-03T19:02:19-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Romance
Chapters: 3, Words: 3,324, Reviews: 7 Updated: 10-3-06, Published: 9-4-06
Status: Complete

Nagasaki, 1877. Konishi Takehito, a clandestinely Catholic, dispossessed samurai leaves his job as a lowly Meiji official to fight in the Satsuma rebellion-but not before forming an unlikely friendship with Johanna Bergmann, sister of a Dutch trader.

Absolution

2006-09-15T19:18:02-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 209, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-15-06, Published: 9-15-06
Status: Complete

I have nothing to plead but guilty.

Martyr's Death

2005-08-11T01:10:01-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 706, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-11-05, Published: 8-11-05
Status: Complete

The execution of one damned by men, though not by Heaven.

Te Quiero

2005-08-01T01:10:59-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 84, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-1-05, Published: 8-1-05
Status: Complete

An admission made harder by years of being unable to say it-

The Bondage of Liberation

2005-07-21T12:43:58-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 221, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-21-05, Published: 7-21-05
Status: Complete

Taking a part of you as you take a part of me, and I just try to remember to keep a hold on myself, too.

Stronger Than Our Selves

2005-06-29T00:48:21-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 158, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-29-05, Published: 6-29-05
Status: Complete

Scared of getting sidetracked by desire-but I know it's just an extension of what first brought us together-the idealism we'll never lose...

Para Siempre

2005-06-25T13:51:13-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 176, Reviews: 0 Updated: 6-25-05, Published: 6-25-05
Status: Complete

Balancing the possibility of heartbreak/remorse with the likelihood that this perfect moment will somehow last forever...

Catharsis

2005-06-22T19:30:45-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 112, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-22-05, Published: 6-22-05
Status: Complete

Simultaneously accepting both the dark despair of times past, and the brilliant new hopes of present and future(villanelle).

The Only Way

2005-06-09T15:32:36-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 269, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-9-05, Published: 6-9-05
Status: Complete

Questioning what I should not-yet, I cannot help being obsessed with destruction and loss...

Lost Futures

2005-05-03T01:09:05-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 841, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-3-05, Published: 5-3-05
Status: Complete

circa 1920s-an anarchist exiled beneath Nicholas II returns to a changed Russia, but one thing remains the same...

No Warranties

2005-04-22T23:49:54-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 39, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-22-05, Published: 4-22-05
Status: Complete

But for you, the risk will be worthwhile.

Forsaken

2005-04-19T19:05:45-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 865, Reviews: 0 Updated: 4-19-05, Published: 4-19-05
Status: Complete

The Rapture took you...and all the hopes of a salvation I cannot seem to accept...

Worn

2005-04-13T01:21:42-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 109, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-13-05, Published: 4-13-05
Status: Complete

Thoughts consumed by what I cannot (rationally) explain

Give Up

2005-04-06T19:36:37-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 79, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-6-05, Published: 4-6-05
Status: Complete

Wait patiently-for what? The reaffirmation of what I already know-that you'll never love me.

Awkward Silence

2005-04-06T00:35:40-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 701, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-6-05, Published: 4-6-05
Status: Complete

The things I could not say when you asked.

Haunted by the Inevitable

2005-04-04T00:12:24-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 162, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-4-05, Published: 4-4-05
Status: Complete

Fear haunts every word, every moment and all I really want is to stay in the present, with you forever.

Doublethink

2005-04-03T23:48:23-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 172, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-3-05, Published: 4-3-05
Status: Complete

Dreading the future that may make you lost to me.

Somewhere Beyond Good and Evil

2005-03-23T18:30:40-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 4, Words: 5,280, Reviews: 12 Updated: 3-23-05, Published: 11-28-04
Status: Complete

Antediluvian (before the Flood) society...a tortured tale of love, sin, angst and, of course, the Nephilim.

Numb Desperation

2005-03-18T02:13:42-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 57, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-18-05, Published: 3-18-05
Status: Complete

The future's unknown for a reason-yet, I wish i knew-

Illusory

2005-03-04T23:46:27-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 55, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-4-05, Published: 3-4-05
Status: Complete

I guess the unhappy ending was inevitable.

Inexplicable Pain

2005-02-21T18:03:49-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 96, Reviews: 2 Updated: 2-21-05, Published: 2-21-05
Status: Complete

...after all, I've known for years...that given a choice...you'd make none at all. And stay with her.

Only in Memory

2005-02-13T23:23:53-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,437, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-13-05, Published: 2-13-05
Status: Complete

Adolescent angst...Valentine's Day decisions, eternally lost true love and those idiotic high school dances...

Hunting Aleksandr Rozhdestvensky

2005-01-31T00:57:11-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Humor/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,061, Reviews: 3 Updated: 1-31-05, Published: 1-31-05
Status: Complete

Does anyone REALLY go on an overnight field trip to the State Capitol just to, er, learn about politics?

How Much More?

2005-01-19T21:15:13-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 149, Reviews: 3 Updated: 1-19-05, Published: 1-19-05
Status: Complete

"If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.-Meister Eckhart

Damned Dreamers

2004-12-25T01:25:48-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-25-04, Published: 12-25-04
Status: Complete

Believe in Him, believe in me-lets leave this world behind and be truly free...

As Scarlet

2004-12-23T01:40:38-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-23-04, Published: 12-23-04
Status: Complete

My love for you eats at my soul like a sin-just tell me I'm forgiven for it-that you love me, too...

Painful Paradox

2004-12-21T02:03:18-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-21-04, Published: 12-21-04
Status: Complete

How can I ever hope to find love...when I compare all to you, the incomparable...?

Go With My Blessing

2004-11-28T17:41:32-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 175, Reviews: 6 Updated: 11-28-04, Published: 11-28-04
Status: Complete

A bitter farewell to my father as he leaves for the War on Terror. Not my most patriotic poem.

Nephilim

2004-11-18T15:59:42-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 235, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-18-04, Published: 11-18-04
Status: Complete

-The angels who fell from heaven, not for their rebellion against God, but for their lust for human women...

Acquitted

2004-11-03T15:19:31-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Horror/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 56, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-3-04, Published: 11-3-04
Status: Complete

Don't think for a moment that you've been forgiven-just because you've been reelected...

Aleksii

2004-11-03T01:03:52-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 41, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-3-04, Published: 11-3-04
Status: Complete

I would sell you my soul if it would buy me your love.

Alone at the End

2004-10-24T01:14:39-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,273, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-24-04, Published: 10-24-04
Status: Complete

Seven years of tribulation-and a glimpse of heaven just before I realize that I'm damned.

Newspeak Works Well Enough for Most Voters

2004-10-08T01:23:02-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,336, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-8-04, Published: 10-8-04
Status: Complete

Really rough (meaning snarky, unprofessional, and rather amusing) draft of a paper analyzing the vice-presidential debate according to the principles of Orwell as put forth in the essay 'Politics and the English Language.

Nanashi

2004-10-07T01:22:34-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Angst
Chapters: 8, Words: 11,763, Reviews: 35 Updated: 10-7-04, Published: 10-4-03
Status: Complete

Nanashi, a caucasian orphan found by a geisha on the streets of 1870 Kyoto, grows up with the goal of becoming a geisha herself.

Beautiful Agony

2004-10-04T01:08:23-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 256, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-4-04, Published: 10-4-04
Status: Complete

Seeing you again...when I thought I'd have to spend eternity itself without you-: the perfect mix of pain and ecstasy.

No Hope, Yet I Tried Anyway

2004-09-29T23:53:24-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 240, Reviews: 0 Updated: 9-29-04, Published: 9-29-04
Status: Complete

Why bother hoping that something will come of seeing you again? I know you don't want me.

The Living Image of the Sun

2004-09-26T00:39:52-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Angst
Chapters: 2, Words: 2,373, Reviews: 8 Updated: 9-26-04, Published: 7-30-03
Status: Complete

The life of Tutankhaten, the son of Pharoah Akhenaten and Queen Kiya. The continuation of my last story, "Dearly Beloved."

Sueno de Ti

2004-09-24T00:53:59-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 175, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-24-04, Published: 9-24-04
Status: Complete

dreams. don't like to come true. but sometimes they do. is this one, or am i deluding myself?

Natya's Grave

2004-08-20T15:27:15-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 2, Words: 1,536, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-20-04, Published: 8-14-04
Status: Complete

1905, St. Petersburg -The Czar's troops fire on a peaceful demonstration, killing thousands. As Anna, one of the local nuns, surveys the resulting destruction,she finds something that will change several lives, including her own.

Confessional

2004-06-05T00:08:48-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 116, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-5-04, Published: 6-5-04
Status: Complete

Am I worthy even to be forgiven? Or have I lied too many times?

The Endless Cycle

2004-06-04T23:22:26-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 480, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-4-04, Published: 6-4-04
Status: Complete

Comparing the passing of the seasons with the waxing and waning of human love.

One Last Chance

2004-05-29T01:24:37-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 201, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-29-04, Published: 5-29-04
Status: Complete

One last chance to tell you how I felt. And I missed it. Tiene un poco espanol porque es para una persona quien le fascina esta lingua.

Four Years

2004-05-25T14:20:36-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: School
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 200, Reviews: 6 Updated: 5-25-04, Published: 5-25-04
Status: Complete

...and I've gained what, exactly? Nothing I'm proud of.

Tarnished Angels

2004-05-06T22:38:57-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 773, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-6-04, Published: 5-6-04
Status: Complete

Who are our troops, really? Well why don't you ask the men and women detained at Abu Ghurayb?

More Than a Black Hawk Went Down

2004-04-21T10:03:54-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,828, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-21-04, Published: 4-21-04
Status: Complete

The relationship between the United States and Somalia, 1950 to present (not that much of a relationship currently exists).Is there any hope for Somalia? Anything the UN or US can do to help?

Observation

2004-04-10T21:59:47-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 135, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-10-04, Published: 4-10-04
Status: Complete

So alone, so disconnected, so that I'm no longer even human...I watch them

Night Witch

2004-03-18T21:12:34-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 3, Words: 4,118, Reviews: 6 Updated: 3-18-04, Published: 7-2-03
Status: Complete

Nadya Rodchenko, a female Soviet bombardier, fights the Nazis with a passion equaled only by that which she has for Ivan, one of her comrades-in-arms...

Bomb Shelter

2004-02-23T21:54:24-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Mystery
Chapters: 1, Words: 186, Reviews: 1 Updated: 2-23-04, Published: 2-23-04
Status: Complete

Once the war's over, the concrete-reinforced memory of our fear remains for the descendants to gawk at and wonder about...(written after a visit to my local cold-war refuge)

Duty to Freedom

2004-01-03T12:09:05-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Adventure
Chapters: 1, Words: 681, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-3-04, Published: 1-3-04
Status: Complete

Opal Radisson, an American whose husband was killed in a post-WWI military assignment in Siberia, decides to fight in the Abe Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.

A Nation Created

2003-12-23T16:40:04-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Romance
Chapters: 12, Words: 19,738, Reviews: 59 Updated: 12-23-03, Published: 1-4-03
Status: Complete

Lydia, the daughter of a Confederate ambassador, lives in a world like our own--only, in her world, the South won the Civil War..

Crying Forever

2003-12-20T22:01:53-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 231, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-20-03, Published: 12-20-03
Status: Complete

Why must I love and hate you both so strongly?

Prelude to the Apocalypse

2003-11-09T21:38:57-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,231, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-9-03, Published: 11-9-03
Status: Complete

All seemed well after the 'good guys' won Word War I-but the rise of fascism and communism, combined with the blindness of western democracies was setting the stage for another 'war to end all wars.'The testing groundr?Spain's Civil War.

Total Recall

2003-10-13T21:28:54-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 606, Reviews: 10 Updated: 10-13-03, Published: 10-13-03
Status: Complete

Reasons why an Austrian-born former bodybuilder with a history of sexual assualt, orgies, drug use, and other questionable character flaws was elected as the Republican governor of California last week.

Dissent Isn't Fashionable Anymore

2003-09-29T18:14:50-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,006, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-29-03, Published: 9-29-03
Status: Complete

You thought the Patriot Act was bad...it will only get worse.

Persephone

2003-09-25T10:29:41-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 227, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-25-03, Published: 9-25-03
Status: Complete

I left you Hades, but I am now doomed to wander the the earth as a lost soul. Why can't I be truly free of you and your memory?

The Phoenix of Democracy

2003-09-08T15:07:37-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 107, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-8-03, Published: 9-8-03
Status: Complete

I was born in this world, under this corrupt government-but now, reborn, I choose to stand apart.

Like A Cancer

2003-09-08T14:48:24-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 181, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-8-03, Published: 9-8-03
Status: In-Progress

Why I hate abortion.

One Nation Under God and Man

2003-08-24T21:41:27-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 781, Reviews: 11 Updated: 8-24-03, Published: 8-24-03
Status: Complete

Should Chief Justice Moore of Alabama be allowed to keep a monument of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama state judicial building? the

No Excuses for You!

2003-07-27T23:13:56-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 226, Reviews: 9 Updated: 7-27-03, Published: 7-27-03
Status: Complete

OK, so we didn't pre-emptively attack Iraq for good anti-WMD reasons so much as humanitarian reasons(yeah right)...so why the hesitation for Liberia?

Fractured Heart

2003-07-21T16:36:00-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 39, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-21-03, Published: 7-21-03
Status: Complete

A short little declaration of painfully true, as of then unrequited, love.

Blinded Lemmings

2003-07-21T16:31:18-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 131, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-21-03, Published: 7-21-03
Status: Complete

For all of the people who abuse their lives, this earth, and their ability to induce conflict...for those who are too blind to see the effects of their mistakes on the world.

Hell is Earth and Earth is Hell

2003-07-21T14:41:36-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 241, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-21-03, Published: 7-21-03
Status: Complete

Every day I live in dread of the Apocalypse...fearing the too-soon end to my unfulfilled life...

Christian Ignorance

2003-07-16T11:34:27-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,154, Reviews: 16 Updated: 7-16-03, Published: 7-16-03
Status: Complete

Creation Science and its many flaws show just how sexist, ignorant, and intolerant my fellow Christians can be...

Deliberate Mistake

2003-07-10T23:07:28-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 256, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-10-03, Published: 7-10-03
Status: Complete

"I was never an angel/Just a broken toy/That caught the eye/Of a little boy"...love is a guilt-inducing pain. curse my fickle heart.

Ending It All

2003-07-10T23:01:38-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 294, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-10-03, Published: 7-10-03
Status: Complete

The scales of love and hate have finally balanced-I can take no more, so I will run away in the only way I have left...

More Than Mindless SciFi Entertainment?

2003-07-10T22:56:16-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 533, Reviews: 6 Updated: 7-10-03, Published: 7-10-03
Status: Complete

Old corny Sci-fi movies with horrifically cheesy special effects and over-acting acatually had some good points...at least, some of them did. Case in Point: The original "Planet of the Apes"

The Hoppenheimer Revolution

2003-06-30T16:56:19-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Humor/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,068, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-30-03, Published: 6-30-03
Status: Complete

All the darkness of the Victorian era crammed into a hopeless little alternate universe replete with barbaric barbers, horrendous headmistresses and angsty adolescents.

A BandAid on an Amputation

2003-06-23T22:46:09-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 208, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-23-03, Published: 6-23-03
Status: Complete

Everything seems healed over now-no more love, lust, hate, only a half-rejuvenated friendship. But history repeats itself-and I know that this truce won't last.

Dearly Beloved

2003-06-20T22:51:02-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 20, Words: 31,079, Reviews: 104 Updated: 6-20-03, Published: 10-28-02
Status: Complete

Epilogue posted!Kiya, an artistic, 17-year old country girl in Ancient Egypt has been chosen to join the harem of the iconoclastic pharaoh Akhenaten, whose principal wife is the famed Nefertiti.

Shooting Star

2003-06-18T15:30:08-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Western
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 2, Words: 2,666, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-18-03, Published: 12-26-02
Status: Complete

The story of infamous western outlaw Belle Starr, who grew up in the Confederacy and went on to be an associate of Cole Younger, Jesse James, etc.

Shattered Ideals

2003-06-17T12:22:53-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 179, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-17-03, Published: 6-17-03
Status: Complete

I admire those who are the least human-those able to transcend destructive emotions-particularly love, in all its forms. Why then, have I fallen so far from my lofty ideals?

Soldiers, Politics, and Everything In Between

2003-06-12T16:00:56-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Horror
Chapters: 2, Words: 1,350, Reviews: 14 Updated: 6-12-03, Published: 6-9-03
Status: Complete

My view on the whole 'carrier landing' issue and reelection for dear old Dubya

All Is A Waste

2003-06-09T12:12:10-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 186, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-9-03, Published: 6-9-03
Status: Complete

Is the point of life merely to escape death? Is there any sort of point-any end fulfillment that I can look forward to?Or am I just wasting my time?

The Act Of A Murderer

2003-06-09T12:07:01-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 133, Reviews: 9 Updated: 6-9-03, Published: 6-9-03
Status: Complete

Society has strange standards for determining the moral good of slaughter...

Lonely

2003-06-03T00:27:23-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 158, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-3-03, Published: 6-3-03
Status: Complete

I feel free only when I'm alone...but being alone makes me depressed. So confusing.

Wound

2003-06-01T20:33:44-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-1-03, Published: 6-1-03
Status: Complete

It's not the same thing-I have nothing to fear, no reason to hurt, yet I can't stop being fearful, no matter how irrational it is

Lies

2003-04-28T10:51:08-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 132, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-28-03, Published: 4-28-03
Status: Complete

The memory taunts me and refuses to leave.

Held Back

2003-04-28T09:41:44-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 103, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-28-03, Published: 4-28-03
Status: Complete

Something holds me back from admitting that I'm in love.

I Laugh

2003-04-16T19:09:51-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 155, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-16-03, Published: 4-16-03
Status: Complete

Humanity seems to enjoy the rush to destruction--when I'm in a really morbid mood, it seems almost amusing. Why does anyone on any side care enough to act so stupid? War is idiotic, regardless.

Only As Good As Their Country

2003-04-16T14:08:35-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 166, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-16-03, Published: 4-16-03
Status: Complete

Rated for the people who will find this horrifyingly contrary to their opinions. Political leaders are self-serving war hawks, but most of their subjects (us) are not much better.

The American Nightmare

2003-04-04T19:34:52-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 245, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-4-03, Published: 4-4-03
Status: Complete

I imgine that assimilation into American society might feel a bit like a bad dream...then, as an un American social outcast, how would I know?

Pure Anarchy

2003-03-31T21:14:27-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 193, Reviews: 6 Updated: 3-31-03, Published: 3-31-03
Status: Complete

Exalts anarchy as the perfect form of government--in other words, the moral superiority of self-government--and laments the fact that it is such a perfectly impossible dream in today's world.

To All

2003-03-28T23:15:12-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 156, Reviews: 5 Updated: 3-28-03, Published: 3-28-03
Status: Complete

to everyone who's ever opposed my war--or should i say anti-war views--particularly a few on this site. the recommended links within didn't copy-so, readers, go to www.romm.org/Pol_links1. html if you disagree about one of my points...

Broken Angel

2003-03-26T21:46:18-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 260, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-26-03, Published: 3-26-03
Status: Complete

The wonderful feelings of hatred and inadequate self-loathing that love brings

Flawed and Fallen

2003-03-24T20:49:08-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 109, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-24-03, Published: 3-24-03
Status: Complete

Afraid of falling in your love's eyes--of them finding your flaw and having them think less of you for it.

QuestionsAnswerwithabillionlivesinthebalance

2003-03-07T20:46:57-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 400, Reviews: 3 Updated: 3-7-03, Published: 3-7-03
Status: Complete

My answer to the general "war with Iraq" question--with a rather deep look on both pro-and anti-sides

Over

2003-01-02T14:40:18-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 291, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-2-03, Published: 1-2-03
Status: Complete

Why is this idotic passion so hard to leave behind?

I MissHateCry over You

2003-01-02T14:29:02-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 96, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-2-03, Published: 1-2-03
Status: Complete

Missing someone that you can't remember if you love or hate.

One to Seal the Fate of a World

2002-12-22T13:43:53-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 262, Reviews: 4 Updated: 12-22-02, Published: 12-22-02
Status: Complete

anti-American/Bush/War with Iraq, etc...

Aloof

2002-12-20T21:39:53-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 550, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-20-02, Published: 12-20-02
Status: Complete

If a siberian tiger (of which about 150-200 still survive in the wild) could rant intelligently about humans, what would it say? odd idea, good (i think) rant

Hate Eternal

2002-12-01T16:53:23-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 2 Updated: 12-1-02, Published: 12-1-02
Status: Complete

For the demon that won't leave my life alone...

Say Goodbye

2002-11-04T21:40:24-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 332, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-4-02, Published: 11-4-02
Status: Complete

I can't seem to break away from you, my friend, though you've lately caused me so much pain--it should be easy--this is my last, final effort to get away and say goodbye to you.

Afghanistan Still Matters

2002-10-28T20:57:06-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,132, Reviews: 6 Updated: 10-28-02, Published: 10-28-02
Status: Complete

A little slightly sarcastic document (I refuse to write essays for fun) on the importance that Americans don't get too quickly bored with Afghanistan---like we did before (and see how it cost us). Open to debate, but you really should R&R this for much mo

letting loose

2002-10-23T18:22:20-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 154, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-23-02, Published: 10-23-02
Status: Complete

I'm sick of the excuses you're giving me--it's driving me crazy, and I 'm going to have to end our friendship--and everything else we had--if you won't get the courage to tell the truth.

Your Cowardice

2002-10-07T22:03:09-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 173, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-7-02, Published: 10-7-02
Status: Complete

I loved you-you said you loved me too---- but you won't give up your woman for me----and i'm gonna have to run away and leave you her with her-i can't take it anymore

The Village Idiot

2002-09-14T20:12:26-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 210, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-14-02, Published: 9-14-02
Status: Complete

i feel like such a ditz- even though I'm anything but- all the guys mess with me, but they'll never ask me out- that's why I call myself the village idot.

Staredown

2002-07-13T11:44:50-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 424, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-13-02, Published: 7-13-02
Status: Complete

If you've ever had a friend who was so close that you fell in love with him.....only to become the nemsis of his official girlfriend/...etc., then please r&r!

The Lion of Panjshir

2002-06-08T23:20:35-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 614, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-8-02, Published: 6-8-02
Status: Complete

This is intended to be a memorial to Ahmad Shah Massoud-leader of the North Alliance in Afghanistan, until his murder by suicide bombers on September 9, 2001. This poem explains some of the issues surrounding Afghanistan and our incompetent government....

Ready to Die

2002-06-07T23:30:09-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 480, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-7-02, Published: 6-7-02
Status: Complete

A very open poem about what is wrong with the Bush administration...what is wrong with the now-stagnated war in Afghanistan...anthrax...nukes...a lot of stuff. Highly entertaining/amusing. Please r&r.

So Cliche'

2002-05-28T22:45:53-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 520, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-28-02, Published: 5-28-02
Status: Complete

The loss of innocence seems so cliche....and the loss of patriotism seems to be widespread...but both can change your life for worse

They Are the Youth of the Nation

2002-05-28T22:22:47-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Adventure/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,717, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-28-02, Published: 5-28-02
Status: Complete

A story about Indonesian child soldiers...some background knowledge recommended...but really good...sorry about the POD-copying title, but hey, it fit. Please read and review!

A Stacked Deck

2002-05-28T22:15:34-08:00

Author: lili brik
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 391, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-28-02, Published: 5-28-02
Status: Complete

Just a strange little eulogy about one of my relationships...with a *unique friend...not much is completely understandable, but its an interesting class project....supposed to incorporate synesthesia..oh well. :-P