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Vices

2010-01-31T19:25:23-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 745, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

Well, she supposed she could always start drinking. That would quiet her mind. Or at least make it slur its words." An uneasily perceptive woman decides to become a writer.

Young Woman

2009-08-21T19:38:26-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 129, Reviews: 0, Complete

She hides her youth in intonations.

My Last Protagonist

2009-07-23T05:02:22-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,193, Reviews: 3, Complete

It was quite the coincidence that Julia Laughlin was reading the obituaries that morning; otherwise, she may have never known.

The Atheist's Crucifix

2009-03-07T13:49:46-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: M
Drama/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 545, Reviews: 2, In-Progress

When he undid the last button of her blouse, her ID fell between her breasts.

Hell Hath No Fury

2008-12-23T14:55:58-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 135, Reviews: 2, Complete

Never wrong a poet... Never wrong a painter either.

A Little Night Music

2008-12-23T14:26:19-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 388, Reviews: 1, Complete

I'm sorry you have to believe that, in order to sleep at night.

Extended Metaphor

2008-12-23T14:20:00-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 68, Reviews: 0, Complete

Dreams are middle-aged women in yoga class.

Christmas Card

2008-12-23T13:59:32-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 126, Reviews: 0, Complete

I don't have to ask what you're doing this Christmas, if you're anything like the person that I knew.

The poet discards her eloquence

2008-10-11T10:00:36-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 216, Reviews: 0, Complete

Never again will she make that mistake, now that she’s a serious writer.

The ingenue rejects her role

2008-10-11T09:58:52-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 237, Reviews: 0, Complete

Her bosom has been heaving since its first entrance, and honestly, she is… exhausted.

Pain

2008-10-05T10:11:23-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: M
General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 317, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

A dying man struggles with his attraction to his doctor, for whom pain is not merely a blurry illustration in a medical textbook.

Unrequited Love

2008-09-19T13:10:57-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: K+
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 1, Complete

My love is not a red, red rose.

You're Happy

2008-08-29T11:02:19-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 378, Reviews: 0, Complete

You're happy and you don't know it. They clap their hands.

A Penny for Your Thoughts

2008-08-19T17:57:51-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,036, Reviews: 2, Complete

When a little boy tells a frazzled writer that she has dropped some spare change, she ponders about the world's failure to reward honesty.

Pandora's Jewelry Box

2008-08-19T17:50:04-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 183, Reviews: 2, Complete

Pandora opened the box, but damned if she cared. For Hope was a beautiful bracelet for her to wear.

Regrets Only

2008-08-19T17:44:57-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Drama/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 280, Reviews: 1, Complete

There's a tent. Is it a graduation party or a three-ring circus? You be the judge.

Misery loves company

2008-08-19T17:40:46-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 281, Reviews: 0, Complete

This is how wars start. This is how knees are skinned and feelings are hurt.

Popular Mechanics

2008-08-19T17:34:35-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: T
Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 380, Reviews: 1, Complete

Hey, Mr. Fallible-Vulnerable Human Being Repairman. I’m not working.

All men are made equal

2008-08-18T20:24:23-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 203, Reviews: 0, Complete

Or else.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

2008-08-18T20:14:14-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 127, Reviews: 1, Complete

When I was a little girl, my teacher taught me that the red rim around the sunset was from pollution in the air.

Lines of Communication

2008-08-18T20:05:38-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 114, Reviews: 2, Complete

The cut cord dangles down the telephone pole.

Wasted

2008-08-12T20:24:39-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 340, Reviews: 2, Complete

A person isn't meant to fit in a bottle.

She Contemplates Her Grocery List

2008-06-13T11:04:45-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: T
General/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 183, Reviews: 2, Complete

Don't love me like lettuce...

The Beholder

2008-06-11T15:11:58-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Humor
English, Rated: T
Humor/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,138, Reviews: 4, Complete

An amusement park caricature artist believes he is a crusader of high, yet painful truths until he meets someone he cannot caricature without lying.

Circe

2008-06-10T20:29:19-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: M
Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 5,577, Reviews: 0, Complete

A young actor lost in illusion has a chance encounter with the formidable woman upstairs, who has the curse of seeing men as they are.

In the Bed That She Made

2008-06-10T20:22:50-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: M
Drama/Romance
Chapters: 6, Words: 8,506, Reviews: 14, In-Progress

A prostitute who lost her name somewhere along her descent into degradation commits a violent crime. A client becomes her only, resented hope, a human alibi, the only person alive that knows who she really is and what she has done.

Odysseus's Conquest

2008-06-01T21:36:49-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Mythology
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Humor
Chapters: 4, Words: 5,706, Reviews: 5, Complete

A pregnant Circe curses her unborn child's absent swine of a father.

The Rainbow Fish

2008-02-29T16:24:15-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Angst/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 235, Reviews: 2, Complete

Beautiful, they will not let you be free until they own part of you.

Higher Education

2008-02-19T14:07:20-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 438, Reviews: 0, In-Progress

We want answers, the high school graduating class demands of its prospective majors.

The Fourth Wall

2007-12-08T17:11:14-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Drama/General
Chapters: 2, Words: 3,753, Reviews: 10, In-Progress

A young actress finds she cannot suspend her disbelief anymore, after she incidentally discovers her drama teacher's affair with a student. However, smoke and mirrors and stagecraft are designed specially to manipulate the truth. [Reviews Returned.]

To Break My Heart

2007-11-11T13:07:36-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 323, Reviews: 2, Complete

It is a fair and heartrending exchange, my love, half for you and half for me.

The Things I Would Like on My Bedside Table

2007-11-10T19:13:21-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 343, Reviews: 0, Complete

...when I wake up and it is not tomorrow.

Red Paper Heart

2007-11-10T14:43:46-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 363, Reviews: 0, Complete

My heart is a box, in a box, in a heart shaped box, wrapped in a thing called love, which is really string.

Placebo

2007-11-10T14:23:20-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 418, Reviews: 0, Complete

Little Miss Ivy League School Prospective Freshman is going to be someone.

Satire

2007-10-20T18:24:49-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Humor
English, Rated: T
Humor/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 489, Reviews: 2, Complete

Of course, none of us should create, should innovate. Our sole purpose in life and as writers is to ensure that we are understood. We are to write for the comprehension of the dullest, most common man. That is greatness. Am I understood?

Polemical Ragbag

2007-09-15T19:47:02-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General/Poetry
Chapters: 4, Words: 193, Reviews: 1, Complete

An intellectual laundry basket of frayed, mismatched thoughts of multicolored fabrics.

Dear Happiness, do you remember me?

2007-08-27T12:31:58-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 378, Reviews: 3, Complete

Like an inadvertently lighted match, like an impromptu trumpet benediction, like an unannounced angel, like an accident, Happiness will come [?]

Jet Lag

2007-08-27T12:27:42-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 241, Reviews: 0, Complete

How much time can I borrow?

Clichés

2007-08-27T12:08:56-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 256, Reviews: 2, Complete

If ignorance is bliss, she accepts that she will never be happy.

Pretty

2007-08-27T11:46:42-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 430, Reviews: 1, Complete

She regrets that she has grown up to be pretty: sixteen and colorless, colorless as pretty.

A Lesson In Acting

2007-08-25T14:44:34-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Humor
English, Rated: T
Humor/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 536, Reviews: 1, Complete

A satirical portrayal of a drama professor as he instructs a student in an improvisational exercise involving moving a nonexistent couch.

let us

2007-08-25T14:29:17-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: K+
Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 151, Reviews: 1, Complete

Smother pieces of it with mustard on your sandwich, of your salad and its dressings, eat and partake of love and slice away until there is nothing left.

The Limit

2007-08-25T14:24:11-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Nature
English, Rated: T
Humor/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 237, Reviews: 1, Complete

Over the years, the cloud shapes shift from firebreathing dragons to landlords coming to collect the rent.

rapid i movement

2007-08-24T20:01:04-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 254, Reviews: 0, Complete

Never do I want to see another morning of waking up to find that my dreams are gone and replaced in the middle of the night with a dime by the reality fairy.

Step With Care

2007-08-24T19:56:23-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Angst/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 150, Reviews: 0, Complete

For no fairy godmother alive will wave her wand for a maiden who refuses to slide her heel [gently] into the illusion and keep it from breaking.

Wishful Thinking

2007-08-24T19:49:40-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 1, Complete

...is within us, is our thirsting lips and starving stomachs and dying flowers and hopeful laughter.

Burning Bridges

2007-08-24T19:43:20-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: T
Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 395, Reviews: 0, Complete

I'm burning my bridges but feel no sense of loss. I'm burning my bridges so ne'er again may you cross.

i who have died

2007-08-24T19:24:06-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 463, Reviews: 0, Complete

While singing a piece based on an e.e. cummings poem, a choir finds that now the ears of their ears awake and now the eyes of their eyes are opened.

I need them for distance

2007-08-21T16:47:57-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: T
Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 299, Reviews: 0, Complete

“Objects in mirror are closer than they appear…“ your car, the sage, warns.

I am not

2007-08-20T15:27:27-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: T
Angst/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 355, Reviews: 2, Complete

I will not be potential. I will not be anticlimax. I will not be at all.

Suspend me and my disbelief, please

2007-08-20T15:15:47-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 568, Reviews: 1, Complete

I'm only waiting for my cue... and for you.

Psychosomatic

2007-08-20T15:05:44-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: T
Angst/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 730, Reviews: 2, Complete

There’s a bruise on my arm, and I don’t know how it got there.

A Collage

2007-08-20T14:49:12-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
School
English, Rated: T
Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 501, Reviews: 0, Complete

Picture this… fire and brimstone and not enough AP classes, just like the counselors tell us. And there are a few things I'd like to do before I go off to burn eternally at a university. It's kind of like that.

To the Girl Without Hands

2007-08-09T15:25:02-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: T
Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 411, Reviews: 0, Complete

I want to keep in touch with someone who understands what it is not to be able to touch.

Inspiration is an unlisted address

2007-08-09T15:16:38-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Play
English, Rated: K+
Humor/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 360, Reviews: 3, Complete

So, I asked the postman to take this letter to my muse...

Dear Woman In the Moon

2007-08-09T13:55:59-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Nature
English, Rated: K+
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 324, Reviews: 1, Complete

I figured since you never hide your face, since every night you look down so serenely on the world, since you always look so regal, as if you were sitting on a throne, not trapped into a sphere, since you follow me everywhere, you might be able to help.

Weather Report

2007-08-09T13:36:31-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Biography
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 954, Reviews: 0, Complete

When her eyes laugh like the frothy foam of the sea on a clear day, he will laugh along like the breeze. And when the weather report on her face is promising storms, he will order in a pizza and a movie and never once ask, “Are you okay?”

This is your incentive for having integrity…

2007-08-01T08:05:50-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: T
Tragedy/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,199, Reviews: 0, Complete

The smooth, mysterious oval clasped in her right hand burns a tattoo on her palm, so she cannot take yours and she cannot let go. This is who you are, it says.

A Writer Divided Against Herself

2007-08-01T07:38:46-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Humor
English, Rated: K+
Humor/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,249, Reviews: 7, Complete

My left and right brains do not always see exactly eye to eye. A brief, silly argument between the two as they struggle to work together to create a story.

Everything Must Go!

2007-07-28T10:05:08-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: T
Angst/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,034, Reviews: 0, Complete

And you had me at 99.9 percent off the ticketed price, one time, one offer, only.

Storm for Sixteen

2007-07-27T18:34:17-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: T
Angst/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 523, Reviews: 0, Complete

Can’t you see that I am turned inside out so that all you can see is the silver lining and the afterglow? You cannot know.

Charades

2007-07-27T11:07:10-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Play
English, Rated: T
Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 138, Reviews: 2, Complete

Please tell her what she is, untangle her from the tongue twister of life.

Antidepressed

2007-07-27T10:49:40-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Friendship
English, Rated: K+
Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 59, Reviews: 2, Complete

Forget the weatherman with his dubious predictions. For you always know.

Fill in the blank

2007-07-27T10:40:13-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 109, Reviews: 0, Complete

...with what you want to see.

Casting Call for Lost Cause

2007-07-27T10:32:28-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 502, Reviews: 0, Complete

Even the actress cannot pretend she does not know how much she needs you to love her.

Your Name Here

2007-07-20T12:48:34-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 114, Reviews: 1, Complete

I hereby grant you my consent to make me feel inferior.

Caricature

2007-07-20T12:41:51-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 158, Reviews: 1, Complete

She flinches when she smiles and embellishes when she lies.

As if, she reminisces

2007-07-20T12:39:11-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 177, Reviews: 1, Complete

I remember the winter that buried the fall, my fall, ours. As if it had never been there at all.

Can you caffeinate my reveries

2007-07-19T17:39:14-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 101, Reviews: 0, Complete

If you inhale the aroma of fancy coffee and beans that spill caffeine, can you breathe an exhaustion of the soul into vague memory?

The Wrong Portrait

2007-07-19T17:29:04-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: K+
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 149, Reviews: 1, Complete

The poet paints the wrongs she cannot write.

When glass slippers go out of style

2007-06-26T19:55:30-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 700, Reviews: 2, Complete

I cannot write a happy ending, but the merciless mirror, mirror on the wall still reflects once upon a broken time.

Word Limit

2007-06-26T19:46:58-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
School
English, Rated: K+
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 58, Reviews: 2, Complete

What's in a number?

Apathy

2007-06-26T19:37:04-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 144, Reviews: 2, Complete

She remembers herself, Apathy does, before she changed her name.

Artistic License

2007-06-25T18:39:01-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 4,260, Reviews: 0, Complete

Art imitates life, and the line between fiction and truth is distorted in a high school composition class, causing one student to uncover a horrible secret that makes her question the responsibility of the writer.

Characterization in Two Acts

2007-02-02T16:18:34-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: T
General/Drama
Chapters: 2, Words: 5,301, Reviews: 1, Complete

A writer in pursuit of her perfect story auditions characters as they stroll into the stage of her consciousness.

An Analytical Argument

2006-11-25T16:45:32-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 190, Reviews: 0, Complete

There is no hidden meaning in this text. It says only what it means, nothing else. Don’t you dare analyze it. However, if you can see something beneath the surface...

Love Letter of the Forsaken Artist

2006-11-25T16:39:45-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 195, Reviews: 3, Complete

I never thought my passion would steal my heart, leave me all alone with its empty, residual art.

Nothing Brilliant

2006-11-25T16:31:28-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 160, Reviews: 2, Complete

She's nothing brilliant. She’s just some girl, who has her words, her rough undyed words that she weaves with no shame or compromise.

listen

2006-11-05T09:31:07-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 227, Reviews: 2, Complete

I don't want to write of pen and paper, of point and purpose, of thorough thesis, and of words that turn like gears. [This is my voice.]

Seen and Unseeing

2006-10-20T16:25:53-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 114, Reviews: 3, Complete

One does not look if she does not wish to see.

Some Distant Today

2006-10-20T16:19:44-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 260, Reviews: 2, Complete

Some day. Take me away to that somewhere where tomorrow meets today.

Inflammation

2006-09-29T20:17:59-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 305, Reviews: 5, In-Progress

You hold the matches, but the fire is mine.

A Niente

2006-09-21T17:41:04-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 185, Reviews: 4, In-Progress

a niente: music diminishing to nothing, usually at the end of a piece.

The Opening Night Opus

2006-07-20T19:11:13-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K
General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 171, Reviews: 3, In-Progress

The chaotic emotions of an opening night are a song in themselves.

The Girl Behind the Curtain

2006-06-23T16:59:12-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 463, Reviews: 5, In-Progress

Tell the audience the actress refuses to learn the lines they want to hear.

Questions I Can't Answer, Answers I Can't Question

2006-05-05T17:38:23-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 316, Reviews: 5, Complete

Why must there be the difference between what you want to be and what you're going to be?

More Than Just a Grain of Salt

2006-05-05T17:16:42-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 199, Reviews: 9, Complete

People like their truths with a lot of seasoning.

Had a Great Fall

2006-05-05T17:04:05-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 233, Reviews: 3, Complete

With all the pressure, everyone has to break sometime.

Define Artist

2005-12-19T12:47:45-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 377, Reviews: 5, Complete

Words are not meant to just make pretty poems. They have to mean something, too.

Cliff Notes

2005-10-24T12:58:09-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K
General/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 461, Reviews: 3, Complete

The only difference between people and books is that people will not sit still and patiently on the page for you to analyze at leisure. And perhaps when it comes to people, we're not meant to read between the lines.

Absent Minded Song

2004-11-30T11:59:14-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: K+
General/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 53, Reviews: 7, Complete

Ditty for a dull, gray day.

Smart Brunette

2004-11-24T12:35:59-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Song
English, Rated: K+
Tragedy/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 585, Reviews: 5, Complete

She thought was too smart for love. Or was she just not smart enough to see it?

I'm Not Who You Think I Am

2004-11-24T12:33:20-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Song
English, Rated: K+
Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 391, Reviews: 3, Complete

Why is it the people you know best are the slowest to accept it when you've changed?

To Prove You Wrong

2004-11-24T12:31:46-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Spiritual
English, Rated: K+
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 934, Reviews: 4, Complete

She was plain. They were beautiful. She was different. They were all the same. She stood on the stage. They were her audience.

Dancing On Parallels

2004-11-24T12:29:32-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 114, Reviews: 2, Complete

A mildly humorous poke at life and its contradictions.

By Any Other Name

2004-11-24T12:26:59-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: K+
Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 4, Complete

Ever been called "perfect" until you just wanted to scream? Because you know you're not perfect. But no one else does.

Driver's Ed and Ringpops

2004-11-24T12:23:57-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Song
English, Rated: T
Humor/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 679, Reviews: 4, Complete

It's not that I don't want to grow up. It's just that I don't want to stop being a kid.

Twins

2004-11-24T12:21:45-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
General/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 943, Reviews: 3, Complete

A summer-boredom inspired piece about a twin girl searching for her identity.

Unusual Artist

2004-11-24T12:19:13-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Love
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 79, Reviews: 6, Complete

Love is a warfare, a gamble, causing grief and broken spirits. But what creates beautiful art if not grief?

Changing the Winds Waking After a Dream

2004-11-24T12:15:53-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 172, Reviews: 3, Complete

Two short poems about life and human emotions, contrasting in tone and nature.

Overlooked Majesty

2004-11-24T11:43:20-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 183, Reviews: 3, Complete

The things we take for granted, the things that will always be. Perhaps if we looked deep enough, we would truly see the overlooked majesty, the beauty of simplicity.

My Wings

2004-11-24T11:11:08-08:00

Author: InkandIntrospection
General
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 215, Reviews: 5, Complete

Singing is not an intangible action. Singing is a place. Open your mouth and grow wings.