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experiments in obscenity

2007-03-17T09:13:15-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-17-07, Published: 3-17-07
Status: Complete

It's about time you left.

Crack Pipe Philosopher

2006-11-13T14:44:11-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 91, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-13-06, Published: 11-13-06
Status: Complete

Why are we here? he asked the sky, but if God replied it was only to point him in the direction of his dealer. A poem about life, death and the purgatory in between. A prize if you can guess who inspired it. Perhaps.

China

2006-10-03T04:12:12-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 127, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-3-06, Published: 10-3-06
Status: In-Progress

On autumn, and not believing in China. edited 2/3/08

far from perfect

2006-09-16T15:10:19-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 131, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-16-06, Published: 9-16-06
Status: Complete

why is it that even though she was far from perfect, you still gave her everything? (Sorry for the posting spree at the moment, I'll stop spamming the place soon...)

let's pretend

2006-09-16T14:29:20-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 70, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-16-06, Published: 9-16-06
Status: Complete

I know it's late, and you're tired, and I'm not pretty...

for never

2006-09-16T11:00:54-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 22, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-16-06, Published: 9-16-06
Status: Complete

Sadly, not as fictional as I'd like it to be. Excuse the title; I'm fully aware it's pretty dreadful. Poem's alright though...

Slashed Wrists & Scenesters

2006-09-09T10:00:35-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 3, Words: 200, Reviews: 9 Updated: 9-9-06, Published: 7-18-06
Status: Complete

Yes, I -did- promise not to go on any more of these rants. But this new chapter shall be my last. Honest. "We are individual"...

anonymous

2006-08-29T15:28:29-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 107, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-29-06, Published: 8-29-06
Status: Complete

when the sun comes up, it might get a bit warmer. (based in jagged fact; probably not the only piece on the subject you'll be seeing from me)

Porcelain and Cigarettes

2006-07-26T05:50:08-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 8, Words: 6,936, Reviews: 20 Updated: 7-26-06, Published: 6-25-06
Status: Complete

"He tasted like porcelain and cigarettes, sinful and sweet and oh-so-fucking-perfect." Adam and Micah's relationship has never ventured beyond the bounds of just-good-friends, until one half-sober dream threatens to change things forever...[m/m]

superman remembers

2006-07-24T15:04:30-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 117, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-24-06, Published: 7-24-06
Status: Complete

"If I go crazy, then will you still call me Superman" (3 Doors Down - Kryptonite) Superman remembers the good old days, his shiny cape and straight white teeth...

libertining

2006-07-16T15:42:49-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 176, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-16-06, Published: 7-16-06
Status: Complete

"It's Thursday night and I told my parents I was staying at a friends, but we crept out here instead, and no I don't regret a thing..." Con/crit much needed on this one, I think; a short piece about, well, 'libertining'...

Duct Tape and Razorblades

2006-07-10T12:55:23-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,796, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-10-06, Published: 7-10-06
Status: Complete

"The worst weekend of your life, at the mercy of duct tape and razorblades" (Kurt Cobain) He's empty, unhappy, and he doesn't know quite why. Maybe the strange watcher in the club holds the answer? - Edited version.

Not the Dying Type

2006-07-07T03:47:00-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 135, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-7-06, Published: 7-7-06
Status: Complete

It was murder, but he died anyway.

evening, maybe

2006-07-01T15:07:44-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 59, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-1-06, Published: 7-1-06
Status: Complete

although looking back it was more like late afternoon, Sunday... Similar to June in that it is an attempt to create that lazy summer mood, because I adore lazy summer days.

June

2006-06-11T14:03:05-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-11-06, Published: 6-11-06
Status: Complete

"We smelt of lipgloss and flowers." An attempt to capture a mood, rather than an event. Feedback would be much appreciated. Does it conjure up the mood, or does it just fizzle out?

this is modern art

2006-06-06T04:00:48-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 144, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-6-06, Published: 6-6-06
Status: Complete

we've got some serious growing up to do

This is the Way the World Ends

2006-05-24T08:12:56-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 99, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-24-06, Published: 5-24-06
Status: Complete

"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper," - T.S. Eliot.

A Square Inch in the NME

2006-05-22T08:37:31-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 397, Reviews: 8 Updated: 5-22-06, Published: 5-22-06
Status: Complete

Either a cutting satire on the necessity of human psychology to follow a trend...or just something rather silly I wrote at one o'clock in the morning, which references modern music far too much. Which is it? You decide...

Honestly

2006-05-20T15:25:44-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 20, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-20-06, Published: 5-20-06
Status: Complete

Because sometimes, lies are precious. And sometimes, they're necessary.

The Placebo Effect

2006-05-10T11:04:49-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 161, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-10-06, Published: 5-10-06
Status: Complete

A while ago, I challenged a friend to write something beginning with the lines "Up my dosage, would ya/nothing's right around here..." This is my contribution to said challenge. On the theme of "This town is dead." If of course that is a theme. Should be,

Unformed

2006-05-01T10:22:42-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 12, Words: 898, Reviews: 39 Updated: 5-1-06, Published: 10-14-05
Status: Complete

Twelve poems. (latest two - A Modern Poet? and Not My Shade Of Grey) Experimentation, basically, with different forms (or lack thereof). Feedback iis much appreciated - what works, what doesn't?

happily ever after?

2006-04-26T09:24:54-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 90, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-26-06, Published: 4-26-06
Status: Complete

Same sort of style as my last, but this time it makes more immediate sense. "You stabbed at the heavens with your index finger, showing me dog-dragon-lion in the cloud chameleon."

Untitled

2006-04-23T13:26:06-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 147, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-23-06, Published: 4-23-06
Status: Complete

"A year and a half of small-town nights..." Short, rather experimental piece about living in a small town. It's untitled for a reason, not just because I couldn't think of a name...and it quotes Chumbawamba!

Outward Appearances

2006-04-19T15:42:57-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 307, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-19-06, Published: 4-19-06
Status: Complete

"No-one can tell, but under her false nails, her own are bitten down to the quick with frustration and nerves." Short drabble. You shouldn't set too much store by outward appearances.

The Questionable Adventures of Count Campula

2006-04-19T03:47:20-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Supernatural
Chapters: 3, Words: 4,276, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-19-06, Published: 12-12-05
Status: Complete

Meet Count Campula, the world's gayest vampire, Prince Narcissus, his vain ex-boyfriend, Arnold, the perpetually-embarrassed manservant, and many more weird and wonderful characters...Chapter II Now Up...

She

2006-02-01T12:32:44-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 148, Reviews: 10 Updated: 2-1-06, Published: 2-1-06
Status: Complete

Her name was Andrea, but she liked her friends to call her Andy, because she thought it made her excitingly androgynous. (Redrafted! What fun...)

Oh, Shut Up!

2006-01-26T14:23:07-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 64, Reviews: 29 Updated: 1-26-06, Published: 1-26-06
Status: Complete

Shout it from the rooftops: emo poems are baaaad! Possibly not the subtlest piece of satire, but it adequately expresses my feelings.

Coffee Shop Shorts

2006-01-07T16:14:45-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 349, Reviews: 11 Updated: 1-7-06, Published: 1-7-06
Status: Complete

The sort of thing you write in coffee shops, still wearing your scarf, to try and sound a little bit Bohemian. My attempt at a very poetic form of short prose: let me know what you think, please - is it worth adopting as a style?

Ragged Angel, Faded Rose

2005-12-27T15:47:42-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 3, Words: 1,183, Reviews: 11 Updated: 12-27-05, Published: 6-26-05
Status: Complete

Collection of drabble-length vignettes based around metaphorical looks into city-dwellers lives. There are three: Ragged Angel, Faded Rose and Broken Flame.

Lyrical

2005-11-16T11:16:14-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Song
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 6 Updated: 11-16-05, Published: 11-16-05
Status: Complete

Made up from a collection of song lyrics. Kind of interesting in a highly-experimental sort of way. Feedback would be highly appreciated.

Maths In October

2005-11-11T08:16:19-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Humor/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 242, Reviews: 9 Updated: 11-11-05, Published: 11-11-05
Status: Complete

"Oh, how I loathe Maths in October - it makes me wish I wasn't sober" An ode to all things mathematical. Sort of.

Concrete City

2005-10-15T05:43:31-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 632, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-15-05, Published: 10-15-05
Status: Complete

"It's too early to be awake, but too late to be asleep, as Nick wanders through the down-lighted, deserted streets". He's losing his faith in the concrete city...but he can't find a way out...

Ode To A Potato

2005-09-23T08:47:44-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 12 Updated: 9-23-05, Published: 9-23-05
Status: Complete

A very silly poem about a potato. And how it symbolises the gradual decay of life...or not. Co-written (if that term can be applied to this) with Empty Jigsaw and Eye of the Needle, who are going to kill me for posting this...

Groupie

2005-09-19T14:06:36-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 146, Reviews: 12 Updated: 9-19-05, Published: 9-19-05
Status: Complete

"Just another bathroom-fuck bitch..." One way of incorporating the phrase "What a terrible human thing to have done". Still experimenting with that phrase, so it may pop up somewhere else before I'm finished with it.

Chalk on the Concrete

2005-09-03T03:53:38-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 99, Reviews: 10 Updated: 9-3-05, Published: 9-3-05
Status: Complete

"Hot day melts like chalk on the concrete" True, if nothing else.

Watched

2005-08-29T09:14:26-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 130, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-29-05, Published: 8-29-05
Status: Complete

Nothing to do with my username. Everything to do with Pete Doherty, and a certain campaign suggested by the Gorillaz...

SixString Messiah

2005-08-29T07:40:44-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 144, Reviews: 8 Updated: 8-29-05, Published: 8-29-05
Status: Complete

Your favourite guitarist, the one that means the most to you. The one person who manages to write songs that get you, every time...

The Man With Bloodstained Gloves

2005-08-18T12:31:20-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Horror/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 6 Updated: 8-18-05, Published: 8-18-05
Status: Complete

The man in white with bloodstained gloves smiles at you...

The Wristband Age

2005-08-07T08:32:25-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 14 Updated: 8-7-05, Published: 8-7-05
Status: Complete

We are living in the wristband age, in which our morals are bought and sold and our good causes are thought up in boardrooms.

To Pieces

2005-08-06T15:19:56-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-6-05, Published: 8-6-05
Status: Complete

"You loved me to pieces...I've fallen apart" Very dark, but I'm quite proud of the central metaphor...

The Good Times

2005-08-06T15:18:30-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 139, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-6-05, Published: 8-6-05
Status: Complete

This is my homage to the good times. We never remember the good times; we always seem to dwell on the tears...

The Hereafter

2005-08-06T15:17:11-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 153, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-6-05, Published: 8-6-05
Status: Complete

When you've cried over spilt milk and spilt blood, and laughed over much of the same...When you know there should be a hereafter, and God's nothing more than a name...

What Happened?

2005-08-04T10:26:09-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 148, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-4-05, Published: 8-4-05
Status: Complete

"What happens to you when you work nine-to-five, and by seven you wish you were dead" Questions...What happened?

Little Junky Icon

2005-07-23T15:01:36-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 88, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-23-05, Published: 7-23-05
Status: Complete

"My little junky icon, his eyes are stained with tears...and when he looks into the distance, it's not comfort that he hears"

Cry

2005-07-21T11:56:53-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 93, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-21-05, Published: 7-21-05
Status: Complete

"Glory in an unmarked grave, and how did it come to this" My thoughts on seeing the WW1 trenches and cemeteries near Ypres.

Neon Daydream

2005-06-23T11:09:55-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 134, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-23-05, Published: 6-23-05
Status: Complete

"Fallen for a neon daydream, coalescing time and space" I'm not entirely sure how to describe this. But it's interesting...

My Redemption

2005-06-21T08:32:40-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 69, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-21-05, Published: 6-21-05
Status: Complete

"My salvation, my sin" Being everything isn't always a good thing...

Lipstick Bruises

2005-06-20T14:12:40-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 74, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-20-05, Published: 6-20-05
Status: Complete

You think she's just a slut, but maybe there's something else beneath...This is written in a very different style to anything else I've written, so I'd appreciate feedback...

Dragons and Tourniquets

2005-06-10T15:27:23-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Horror/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 3,924, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-10-05, Published: 6-10-05
Status: Complete

"I caught a bus. I didn't even look at the destination on the front of it; I just had to get out. To where, it didn't matter. Which was how I ended up here." Edited! Oh yes.

Liberty In Chains

2005-06-07T13:47:03-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 87, Reviews: 9 Updated: 6-7-05, Published: 6-7-05
Status: Complete

"You gave me freedom at a price/Another neon sacrifice" This came out a lot darker than I intended. But I'm quite proud of the metaphors...R+R please

My Broken Whore

2005-04-24T12:47:45-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 57, Reviews: 10 Updated: 4-24-05, Published: 4-24-05
Status: Complete

"My broken whore, angel of sin- a dark poem written when I heard a phrase which stuck in my head and depressed me all day. Very dark.

The Masked Ball

2004-11-27T01:29:42-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 79, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-27-04, Published: 11-27-04
Status: Complete

Solemn one-by-one we sweep Into the sombre hall...

Hopeless GloryDream

2004-09-17T08:16:04-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Horror/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 901, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-17-04, Published: 9-17-04
Status: Complete

A short piece from the POV of a soldier during the First World War. Please read, I'm proud of it!

Cold

2004-08-20T14:02:37-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,388, Reviews: 7 Updated: 8-20-04, Published: 8-20-04
Status: Complete

A poem about being ignored by people in charge. Here, it's school. But really it could be anywhere. Read and review, please.

The Beach

2003-06-30T07:01:11-08:00

Author: The Watched
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,155, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-30-03, Published: 6-30-03
Status: Complete

Just a little poem about walking along the beach in the evening and seeing what the day has left behind.