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Shyness Anonymous

2009-11-27T14:33:27-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,829, Reviews: 0 Updated: 11-27-09, Published: 11-27-09
Status: Complete

Six steps to combating shyness. A personal essay slash creative nonfiction piece discussing the experience of being shy and the slow, impossible to force beginning of overcoming that shyness.

The Work of Psychohistorians

2009-11-27T14:30:15-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Sci-Fi/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,673, Reviews: 0 Updated: 11-27-09, Published: 11-27-09
Status: Complete

To reach the outcome desired by the Seldon Plan, psychohistorians find a balance between the massive, sweeping predictions of psychohistory and the comparatively miniscule events that drive the Seldon Plan forward. An essay on Asimov's Foundation Novels.

Bonds

2009-11-27T14:24:15-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Fantasy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,907, Reviews: 0 Updated: 11-27-09, Published: 11-27-09
Status: Complete

I ran out of paint a few months ago, and no one can find any more—besides the peeling, dying paint on walls like the one behind my back. That’s what the world is like, I think, it’s faded and dying with the skin peeling off.

Shadows Fester in the Cracks of a Soul

2009-07-13T16:27:45-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Horror
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Horror/Supernatural
Chapters: 6, Words: 25,592, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-13-09, Published: 5-29-09
Status: Complete

I wanted to make vampires evil again; they are monsters, not boyfriends. Masaccio is one of the worst, and now he's set his sights on high school junior Kylara Scott.

Daddy Left

2009-07-01T21:12:14-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Family/Hurt/Comfort
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-1-09, Published: 7-1-09
Status: Complete

She doesn't know why Daddy left.

I Want to See You Smile

2008-07-27T01:05:19-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-27-08, Published: 7-27-08
Status: Complete

I want to see you smile, and I want to see you laugh.

Captive

2008-07-21T00:41:33-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Crime
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 0 Updated: 7-21-08, Published: 7-21-08
Status: Complete

A soft reminder at your ear, an escape from the vulgarity of a Gun.

The Door

2008-04-26T00:57:36-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 296, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-26-08, Published: 4-26-08
Status: Complete

First thing, I ran to the door. On the way, I considered opening it to see what waited on the other side, but I decided it was too dangerous. I could look out from my window. So instead, I turned the lock.

Power

2008-04-21T19:01:31-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Horror
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Horror/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 575, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-21-08, Published: 4-21-08
Status: In-Progress

Power was not something Nic was accustomed to, but that didn’t matter, not at all.

Frankenstein Prison Experiment

2007-12-02T23:01:11-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,607, Reviews: 0 Updated: 12-2-07, Published: 12-2-07
Status: Complete

What makes a villain? This essay examines Marry Shelley's Frankenstein and the Stanford Prison Experiment to explain it.

Pursuit of Immortality

2007-10-12T19:28:22-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,570, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-12-07, Published: 10-12-07
Status: Complete

Essay on human life, death, and inability to be something more.

Charcoal Wings

2007-10-01T18:44:10-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 335, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-1-07, Published: 10-1-07
Status: Complete

Her unmarked page hid even from skillful Pegasus’ bright eyes the drawing it was fated to hold.

The Dearly Departed

2007-09-23T12:18:14-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 69, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-23-07, Published: 9-23-07
Status: Complete

…lie rotting in boxes six feet beneath hardpacked earth and a mocking layer of grass.

Bone White

2007-09-04T14:37:23-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 97, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-4-07, Published: 9-4-07
Status: Complete

He reaches for my ankles with bone white fingers and a calm, toothy smile.

Fear

2007-08-17T13:52:26-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 287, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-17-07, Published: 8-17-07
Status: Complete

Mountains of stone weigh on my shoulders, not of responsibly and what I know I must do, but of what I can’t, of fear.

Black Snow

2007-08-06T00:24:35-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 291, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-6-07, Published: 8-6-07
Status: Complete

I remember the first time it happened. My children hid in the house and stared, fear shining brightly in their youthful eyes, from behind the purple window curtains, while they took great gulps of hot chocolate and burned their throats in haste.

Innocence

2007-08-06T00:18:59-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Tragedy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 238, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-6-07, Published: 8-6-07
Status: Complete

Innocence sprouted in brilliant wings from our backs it has faded now, but I remember its shining days before we shattered our souls to create room for adulthood

Bucket

2007-08-01T01:06:11-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Work
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 236, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-1-07, Published: 8-1-07
Status: Complete

Between the blades of a broken fan, the cracked ceiling leaks fat droplets to the floor, deepening the maroon of carpet where it lands. The cook brings a bright green bucket, squarish, plastic, and ugly, to catch the water as it falls.

Ugly

2007-08-01T00:29:39-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 360, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-1-07, Published: 8-1-07
Status: Complete

Giddy children run through rays of sunlight and puffs of grass as I watch, hidden behind musty curtains, green like vomit. I remember once, long ago, I ran through shards of laughing friendship.

freezing

2007-08-01T00:05:57-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-1-07, Published: 8-1-07
Status: Complete

when the cold sets in...

I saw him die

2007-07-31T23:58:30-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 163, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-31-07, Published: 7-31-07
Status: Complete

Waiting, near yet apart, at the crosswalk. A few cautious feet separated us, strangers, while pavement and waiting connected us, stranger still.

Waiting

2007-07-31T13:10:57-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 217, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-31-07, Published: 7-31-07
Status: Complete

He said he’d call when he went on break, after noon, so I’d be awake. It’s after two now I’m still waiting.

Human

2007-07-31T00:12:55-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Horror/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 123, Reviews: 5 Updated: 7-31-07, Published: 7-31-07
Status: Complete

Blood pours from the sky, staining every soul bound to this sunless field of murder.

Video Games and Violence: Mario Made Me Do It

2007-07-30T12:21:45-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,562, Reviews: 5 Updated: 7-30-07, Published: 7-30-07
Status: Complete

A research paper on the effect of video games on the violent nature of society, or lack there of.

iSermon

2007-07-26T12:56:23-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Humor/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 604, Reviews: 5 Updated: 7-26-07, Published: 7-26-07
Status: Complete

A satire on religion and technology. If you'll be offended, don't bother looking at it. It's meant for humor, not to insult anyone. It's an Apple centric parody of a sermon.

My Hands

2007-07-26T12:15:34-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 136, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-26-07, Published: 7-26-07
Status: Complete

I don’t have pretty hands. my palms resemble lumpy squares, squashed and deformed into flesh.

Haunting Memory

2007-07-26T01:36:22-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-26-07, Published: 7-26-07
Status: Complete

I’ve shattered my soul, torn it to shreds like you did my heart. I'm broken entirely now.

Found

2007-07-25T13:42:59-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Fantasy/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,369, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-25-07, Published: 7-25-07
Status: Complete

The stories say the ring is beautiful, and that any who looks upon it will be destroyed by lust for it.

Final Victory

2007-07-25T01:24:18-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Adventure
Chapters: 1, Words: 453, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-25-07, Published: 7-25-07
Status: Complete

I raise my heavy fist, the tattered crimson cloth clutched tight in my bloody and bandaged fingers. Cheers fill the air to bursting and carry the men to heaven on the greatest and simplest high: victory.

The World Beyond My Own

2007-07-22T23:51:20-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-22-07, Published: 7-22-07
Status: Complete

I reach above me, desperately, to grasp a world brighter than my own.

Never Ending

2007-07-22T23:49:41-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 60, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-22-07, Published: 7-22-07
Status: Complete

I’ll never tell You’ll never know. My thoughts, my thoughts, I’ll never show.

Leaf

2007-07-22T23:48:01-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 77, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-22-07, Published: 7-22-07
Status: Complete

The leaves fell brittle to the ground, in red, orange, yellow, and brown.

His Own Hand

2007-07-22T23:13:53-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 116, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-22-07, Published: 7-22-07
Status: Complete

They reach for sunlight, but it burns. Blind to their blight, they refuse to learn.

The Star Fell

2007-07-21T21:39:47-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-21-07, Published: 7-21-07
Status: Complete

The star fell, and the wing snapped. I clung to shattered shards of glass, my life.

Pennies

2007-07-21T21:14:37-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Horror
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Supernatural/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 531, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-21-07, Published: 7-21-07
Status: Complete

It tastes like a penny, metallic and dirty.

Silence

2007-06-14T13:42:00-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 79, Reviews: 0 Updated: 6-14-07, Published: 6-14-07
Status: Complete

I’m no good with words. When I need to use them: I avoid it, or I say “I don’t know,” But most often, I say nothing.

Reflection

2007-06-14T13:40:40-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 0 Updated: 6-14-07, Published: 6-14-07
Status: Complete

Crying, sighing, am I dieing? Defeat has finally come. Lying, trying, now I’m flying, and my body has gone numb.

Fire

2007-06-14T13:38:08-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-14-07, Published: 6-14-07
Status: Complete

The hunger I feel can never cease. The unquenchable thirst will never leave. Searching, tearing, finding, stealing Make it all go away.

Escape

2007-06-14T13:36:42-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 87, Reviews: 0 Updated: 6-14-07, Published: 6-14-07
Status: Complete

Die, all of you, with your life spans and searches for intelligence and expectations that there are answers out there somewhere.

Shadow

2007-06-14T13:34:29-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 87, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-14-07, Published: 6-14-07
Status: Complete

I see the bloody shadow, spreading in a pool, beautiful and terrible.

Lonliness

2007-06-14T13:29:05-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 95, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-14-07, Published: 6-14-07
Status: Complete

Wandering, lost, throughout this world the pain of loneliness unfurled.

Death

2007-06-14T13:25:53-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 22, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-14-07, Published: 6-14-07
Status: Complete

It stalks us, its pace never slowing.

Above All

2007-06-14T11:21:49-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 28, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-14-07, Published: 6-14-07
Status: Complete

Raging, raging waterfall, sitting, sitting above all.

The River

2004-06-02T01:26:05-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 123, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-2-04, Published: 6-2-04
Status: Complete

As I rummage through my books and things, I realize they aren’t really mine. Listening to the melody the wind always sings, I look around, seeking a sign.

Ghost

2004-03-06T22:50:41-08:00

Author: Kindre Turnany
Category: Supernatural
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 286, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-6-04, Published: 3-6-04
Status: Complete

Soft, melancholy notes drift through the slightly cracked door and waft through the open window to float away on the breeze.