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Breathe That Fire

2009-09-19T22:38:06-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,182, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-19-09, Published: 9-19-09
Status: Complete

He doesn't really remember being a teenager, just an unresolved discussion with his two best friends about how it feels to die, just a funeral, just a few too many shots of Absolut and a pack of cigarettes.

Locusts

2009-08-25T22:43:09-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 971, Reviews: 0 Updated: 8-25-09, Published: 8-25-09
Status: Complete

I'm not always like this, it's something I become. A terrible weakness in my nature, in my blood. Save me, save me, oh, save me from myself. // You become intimate with the taste of salt and lies.

Dawn

2009-01-29T13:42:00-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Family/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,955, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-29-09, Published: 1-29-09
Status: Complete

It happens so suddenly. One day, you just... You make this split-second decision, maybe in the shower, or in the bed staring at the ceiling. You decide, consciously decide, that something else is worth more to you than, well, you.

Footprints on the Other Side

2008-12-14T14:50:35-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 715, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: In-Progress

It's like I'm drowning in my own mind.

Evolution

2008-03-25T19:32:00-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,784, Reviews: 3 Updated: 3-25-08, Published: 3-25-08
Status: Complete

Metamorphosis is for the pretty things in this world, she says, for the fragile and ephemeral. Breaking free and flying away - this isn't the life for humans.

Fractal Trees

2008-03-24T17:33:02-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Young Adult
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Humor/General
Chapters: 2, Words: 2,994, Reviews: 6 Updated: 3-24-08, Published: 3-4-08
Status: In-Progress

Welcome to my life, circa the teenage years, at a place we'll fondly call "Hell." Watch out for gnomes and drug-sniffing dogs.

Might As Well

2007-10-08T17:37:21-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 419, Reviews: 7 Updated: 10-8-07, Published: 10-8-07
Status: Complete

She's lying. [See me, she whispers, dry eyed. See through me.]

Ashes, Ashes

2007-09-01T13:36:04-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,639, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-1-07, Published: 9-1-07
Status: Complete

[Maybe people need to believe in something.] One shot, second person, an Atheist thinks about Christianity.

Somebody Told Me

2007-07-11T22:06:56-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 863, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-11-07, Published: 7-11-07
Status: In-Progress

When did we get so obsessed with romance that we forgot how to love? [The plot didn't happen, but the monologue did. Fragments of the stories that weren't.]

Sell My Soul

2007-05-25T13:43:16-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Supernatural
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Horror
Chapters: 3, Words: 2,935, Reviews: 8 Updated: 5-25-07, Published: 2-3-07
Status: In-Progress

For what does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? [a demon, on how it came to be that way. WiP.]

Psychophobia

2007-04-19T21:10:20-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,536, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-19-07, Published: 4-19-07
Status: Complete

It's scary, you know, looking into your own mind. Like running headfirst into a whirlpool or sticking your arm into the lion exhibit at the zoo. You don't know if you can really get in, but worse, you don't know if you can really get out. [one shot]

How to Save a Life

2007-02-10T17:18:37-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 433, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-10-07, Published: 2-10-07
Status: Complete

Sometimes, the only thing to do is give up.

Someone Swears

2007-01-19T17:55:58-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 921, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-19-07, Published: 1-19-07
Status: Complete

I think, right now, at this instant, I’d rather die in a flaming ball of car off a bridge somewhere in Louisiana, than face the next three days.

makeshift wings

2006-12-02T20:49:22-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 3, Words: 384, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-2-06, Published: 2-8-06
Status: Complete

because you're dying to become forever unknown

c a s c a d e

2006-11-04T17:41:15-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 538, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-4-06, Published: 11-4-06
Status: Complete

Life doesn’t flow, it doesn’t walk, it doesn’t do anything until you set it in motion, and then it cascades. Zero to infinity in three seconds flat. [a little odder than usual.]

Nova

2006-10-21T16:00:00-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 688, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-21-06, Published: 10-21-06
Status: Complete

At 6:00, Monday morning, someone found Orion's belt in a ditch. [Oneshot, kind of odd]

Ribbon

2006-10-12T20:34:24-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,160, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-12-06, Published: 10-12-06
Status: Complete

A talk about life with a homeless man in the park. "It's funny, isn't it, everyone's here and none of us know why."

Innocent

2006-08-19T21:51:35-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,272, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-19-06, Published: 8-19-06
Status: Complete

I guess I have nothing without my lost causes.

Snow Angels

2006-06-23T13:34:47-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,063, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-23-06, Published: 6-23-06
Status: Complete

He expected sudden understanding to come with trumpets blaring and lights flashing, but it’s sort of come quietly and before he knows it he’s got his realization and it doesn’t really make him feel anything. A disappointing epiphany. How very appropriate.

Damsel

2006-06-12T18:18:56-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 375, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-12-06, Published: 6-12-06
Status: Complete

I never was one for dreams.

Moment

2006-06-12T18:14:41-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 404, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-12-06, Published: 6-12-06
Status: Complete

"for the first time in a long time, she gets the feeling that it’s all going to work out, and that time isn’t going to pass, and, for the first time in a long time, the world feels like a pretty good place to be."

From the Woods to the Red Clay Hills

2006-06-05T15:46:12-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 5, Words: 6,287, Reviews: 9 Updated: 6-5-06, Published: 3-2-06
Status: Complete

...And everything in between. Growing up as the impressionable younger sister of two totally opposite, pyrotechnic, and reckless brothers is a roller coaster ride of bottle rockets, life lessons hidden in the lilypads on a lake, and utter mayhem.

Ramen and Wine

2006-06-04T21:54:54-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Humor/Romance
Chapters: 2, Words: 3,404, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-4-06, Published: 6-3-06
Status: Complete

Elise is a perpetually unlucky starving artist living in Seattle, trying not to be killed by karma, her ex-fiancé, the Hell’s Angels, her demonic stove, or the creepy guys she works with… Maybe she should have tried this before breaking that mirror.

Hurricane

2006-06-02T16:39:33-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 977, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-2-06, Published: 6-2-06
Status: Complete

A somewhat bitter account of a certain hurricane. "The political storm was worse than the real storm and the anticipation was worse than the actual catalyst, so the only thing I remember about the storm is how disappointed I was by it all"

Seasons

2006-05-21T22:53:42-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 700, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-21-06, Published: 5-21-06
Status: Complete

Three times I fell in love. One time I didn't.

Stained Glass

2006-04-05T21:40:37-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,023, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-5-06, Published: 4-5-06
Status: Complete

I've never been given much to believe in.

Dignity

2006-03-06T18:06:00-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 417, Reviews: 4 Updated: 3-6-06, Published: 3-6-06
Status: Complete

You asked me once why I bother fighting for couldn't care less what happens to me. You asked me once why I fight for people with no dignity, people who would sell their souls for a dimebag or a whore. Because I can. There's no other answer.

Flying with the Sun

2006-03-01T18:12:50-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,737, Reviews: 4 Updated: 3-1-06, Published: 3-1-06
Status: Complete

I remember the grin on his face, and I know that she was thinking that every second of those three hours she spent at the biggest dance of her lifetime with a retarded child was worth it just to that kid smile.

Alarm Clock Red

2006-02-23T16:51:53-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 520, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-23-06, Published: 2-23-06
Status: Complete

But pretend is for children and she's no child.

Final Fantasy

2006-02-18T12:23:51-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 722, Reviews: 1 Updated: 2-18-06, Published: 2-18-06
Status: Complete

[oneshot, sort of a two for one story] A boy tries to beat a game and a man learns just how painful nostalgia can be.

Twentyone

2006-01-30T20:01:05-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 474, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-30-06, Published: 1-30-06
Status: Complete

He’s twenty-one and he claims to be an adult, even though he’s scared of it and he isn’t even sure he can grasp what adulthood is. He’s twenty-one today.

Celestial

2006-01-18T18:47:02-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 289, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-18-06, Published: 1-18-06
Status: Complete

With icy cold hands she touches the moon.

Orion's Belt

2006-01-08T18:13:11-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 506, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-8-06, Published: 1-8-06
Status: Complete

[Christian themes] I wonder if Orion was handsome, and whatever possessed him to hang out with the stars, nearly faded because of the moon, and why he stands at such an odd angle to the ground from here, like he’s shooting the edge of the world.

12:14 and Happy New Year, again

2006-01-01T23:31:26-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 436, Reviews: 3 Updated: 1-1-06, Published: 1-1-06
Status: Complete

It’s past midnight, 12:14 actually, and everyone’s still drinking beer and no one bothered to open the champagne because no one could find the stupid corkscrew and I’m sitting in my room, nowhere near asleep, wondering how a new year can feel so old.

Elegy

2006-01-01T22:58:56-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 931, Reviews: 4 Updated: 1-1-06, Published: 1-1-06
Status: Complete

And you'd give anything, just to know that joy of life, just to feel it all and see it all and taste it all one more time. But it's been too long and those days have faded into the grainy ink inside a history book that no one reads because it's boring.

Shakespearean

2005-12-27T00:13:21-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 704, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-27-05, Published: 12-27-05
Status: Complete

[rating for language and slight, uh, morbidness] It’s a bit Shakespearean, actually.

Colors of Insanity

2005-12-22T11:05:26-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Horror/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 663, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-22-05, Published: 12-22-05
Status: Complete

Picture into the mind of an insane person. This came out wierd. "It’s like seeing a world through a drop of water; nothing is really what it seems."

Every Silver Lining

2005-12-21T21:37:05-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 819, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-21-05, Published: 12-21-05
Status: Complete

"You live life on cloud nine, bordered by silver and fluffy and warm and cozy and rich. But behind every silver lining is a grey base if you look hard enough"

Freefall

2005-12-03T23:52:10-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 780, Reviews: 4 Updated: 12-3-05, Published: 12-3-05
Status: Complete

Close your eyes and jump. Either you win or you lose. Once you've jumped, there's no point in worrying. [written spontaneously and without sleep, so forgive me]

Rain, Rain

2005-11-26T18:42:49-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 899, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-26-05, Published: 11-26-05
Status: Complete

"Just last week, some little old man had been murdered when he accepted an invitation to have hot cocoa. Crazy lady slipped arsenic in the drink when he wasn’t looking; said it was for the good of mankind."

Dreams come True

2005-11-25T16:37:33-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 472, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-25-05, Published: 11-25-05
Status: Complete

A frost is already settling, and you’ve already forgotten why you’re hiding here. [oneshot, like pretty much everything else I do]

First Star on the Right

2005-11-24T21:42:43-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 653, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-24-05, Published: 11-24-05
Status: Complete

You can stand here for hours, contemplating deep thoughts about life and death and the world and the universe and humanity and the future and the past and some story you never lived but kind of wish you did.

Catharsis

2005-11-24T12:19:25-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,112, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-24-05, Published: 11-24-05
Status: Complete

[Christian-letter format] Hey, God. It’s me again. I really screwed up this time, didn’t I?

A Thin Line

2005-11-21T17:46:16-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 436, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-21-05, Published: 11-21-05
Status: Complete

[working title] I was supposed to watch her life, 15 years of it, on videotapes taken for 'research' purposes, all to find out why this otherwise normal, if very smart, woman lost her mind. I wasn't as ready for it as I thought.

4 and 20 Blackbirds

2005-11-21T07:40:31-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 544, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-21-05, Published: 11-21-05
Status: Complete

Lies define you; they always have. [one shot]

13 Minutes to Midnight

2005-11-19T10:08:04-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,874, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-19-05, Published: 11-19-05
Status: Complete

Rating for cursing and adult themes. ‘Sometimes, you’ll see her house and feel a faint desire to be her, so pure and sweet. You know that if you reached out, she’d save you. But you won’t reach out.’

Checkmate

2005-10-25T18:24:30-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 519, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-25-05, Published: 10-25-05
Status: Complete

Rating for adult themes. "It's a risk to do this. If anything goes wrong, it'll be the end of it all. If even one pawn is lost, the game is over. It has to be perfect or not at all."

Against the Wall

2005-08-27T15:23:36-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,392, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-27-05, Published: 8-27-05
Status: Complete

Rating for adult themes. Autobiographical essay about how to get off the edge and back into life, even when it feels like you're all alone. Christian, but don't let that stop anyone.

So make it

2005-08-22T17:33:36-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 742, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-22-05, Published: 8-22-05
Status: Complete

Rating for slight language. "Too often people sit on their couches in their living rooms, watching the news and eating their TV dinners, yelling out the ways that they think the politicians are doing things wrong."

Fate's Game

2005-08-19T21:00:10-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Fantasy/Supernatural
Chapters: 5, Words: 6,684, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-19-05, Published: 8-5-05
Status: In-Progress

Discontinued. Send me a PM if you want to take on this story.

The Rose

2005-07-12T02:15:31-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Supernatural
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Supernatural/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 345, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-12-05, Published: 7-12-05
Status: Complete

::The rose. A vivid, blood red bud of a rose was leaning against the grave. Naturally.:: May or may not be continued, depends on what readers think.

Never speak those words

2005-07-01T01:35:33-08:00

Author: andromeda311
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 826, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-1-05, Published: 7-1-05
Status: Complete

Not exactly an essay, but it wouldn't fit elsewhere. A short, angsty, and very personal review of trust and the consequences of actions on other people, even if they seem good at the time. Don't kill me, please.