Girl. 19.

Formerly know as: Extra-strength Peppermint Tea

Lives in California.

Loves telling stories, true or otherwise.

Could talk to a wall.

Loves flowers and trees.

Is currently obsessed with: Sin City, lotuses, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and the song "Soon We'll Be Living In The Future" by Straylight Run.

Listens to: The Hush Sound, The Format, Eisley, Laura Viers, Anberlin, Straylight Run, Dashboard Confessional, The Rocket Summer, As Tall As Lions, Death Cab For Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, Mirah, Tilly and the Wall, The Decemberists, Bayside, Motion City Soundtarck, Copeland, Vassen, Rilo Kiley, Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer, Fall Out Boy

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1. because i am young reviews

and i could always say, "see? this many leaves. this is how long i have been here."/ but now, in the killing time, in the valleys of the shadow of trees, in the thick of poison pink flowers/ i think i lost you.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-5-08 - Published: 9-5-08

2. O Valencia! » reviews

In the summer, Rosaline turns sweet sixteen and gets a job at a coffee house in midtown Valencia. And on a day when the average air temperature is one hundred degrees and the sun has been snared by the city’s trees, she meets a boy named Reuben.

Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 6 - Words: 12,275 - Reviews: 20 - Updated: 9-2-08 - Published: 2-27-08

3. The Architecture of Disaster reviews

I draw your bones/ guessing at the lines that make up the hall of your rib cage/ the arches of your shoulder blades.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-8-08 - Published: 8-8-08

4. The Morning Train Hush reviews

tangible i taste the sound full like water/like coffee lingers on my tongue milk sugar sharp"

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-8-08 - Published: 8-8-08

5. monsoons reviews

i think about monsoons the long slow word moon and tides the city turns into a river wide and deep and green.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-25-08 - Published: 5-25-08

6. my heart is a calling card reviews

and i think it could be colored in magenta roses saturating the heavy sky above faster than the speed of conversation.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-25-08 - Published: 5-25-08

7. yours and mine condemning stars reviews

and it doesn't fit, the eyes beneath your gently closed lids; your calluses and fingers...

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-23-08 - Published: 5-23-08

8. edge of night reviews

at the edge of night where the streets begin to end and the rain is all around

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-23-08 - Published: 5-23-08

9. like flowers like pain reviews

i wonder what is written there/ in the cracking of my skull?

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-22-08 - Published: 5-22-08

10. San Andreas reviews

So she says: this is like my home- in the smoke and thickness, the bitterest taste /“I remember in summer, the way we couldn’t go out…”

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-13-08 - Published: 5-13-08

11. Bright Eyes reviews

Under the industrial yellow streetlight, Caroline uncharitably thinks Violet’s lipstick makes her mouth look like a big wet gash.It’s raining, but the sound is swallowed by the traffic noise of the city street corner, and only the spatter of thick drops a

Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,602 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-10-08 - Published: 5-10-08

12. What I Did This Summer: reviews

Don’t answer; it’s not real.

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 429 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-3-08 - Published: 5-3-08

13. time like a ghost reviews

and she says "you should stay up all night" and i like the thought of the sunrise and the morning light so i drink paper cups and plastic glasses filled with stale coffee and thick golden honey and too much cream.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 344 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-7-08 - Published: 3-7-08

14. sleeping in reviews

there’s a tamarind tree outside my window/it gapes at me twisting branches like faces

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-4-08 - Published: 3-4-08

15. the nature of my bones reviews

i am the cold and the pavement the brittle blue light

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-4-08 - Published: 3-4-08

16. Smoke and Lilies reviews

i lost you in sound, and found her in the color leaking from a smoke invaded sky as saffron sun smothers my mouth with blood red pollen stains my hands for days after i think of her when i look down at them and not of you.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 1-15-08 - Published: 1-15-08

17. Shades reviews

i wander alone along asphalt expanses mirrored by the scuff of denim as my bike clambers/rambles along. this paint its peeling too.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 297 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-15-08 - Published: 1-15-08

18. light pollution ii reviews

an incandescent good night: i wished on an artificial streetlight star that every word i whispered was a sonnet abab cdcd efef gg

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-7-07 - Published: 5-7-07

19. Legend reviews

When Morning's brother Andrew dies, no one wants to talk about it, least of all Morning. But when apparitions of the dead boy begin to appear he is forced to talk about his guilt and deal with his grief. loose modern version of King Arthur stories

Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,479 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-17-07 - Published: 4-17-07

20. January Rains: this night misses you reviews

this night is missing you a bit like me too down soaking walks wet with midnight and whisper white magnolias.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 57 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-27-07 - Published: 2-27-07

21. delicate reviews

delicate is she, of eyes and face and nose and mind (oh god how beautiful the inside of her skull).

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 4-19-06 - Published: 4-19-06

22. Bedtime for Adeline reviews

“Yes, Adeline. A storybook ending like in all the fairytales…because eventually the prince found a handsome young knight for the lonely princess, and the knight and the beautiful princess lived together happily ever after. The end.”

Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,411 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 3-16-06 - Published: 3-16-06

23. For the Summer reviews

June Aubrey suffers from the overbearing machinations of his calculating older sister Ashleigh, as she tries to keep abreast of the ever lurking threat of their imminent poverty and keep up appearences.

Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,390 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-10-06 - Published: 1-10-06

24. i paint the winter as all alone reviews

an exodus of a million crazy white birds to everywhere you've created in your heart, all the moments /you're making up for/ lost time spent living in telephone wires

Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 1-5-06 - Published: 1-5-06

25. i dreampt one night that you had wings » reviews

and (she) gutters at the speed of light, on and off agian like the goddess of fireflies- - -:- - - a faded butterfly from the softest of flowers you trail their scent after you/ so that the walls echo back your cinnamon voice.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 14 - Updated: 10-29-05 - Published: 10-24-05

26. and it's norestforthewicked reviews

she wants to be let out of the cage i call home.

General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-19-05 - Published: 10-19-05

27. seize the day reviews

'seize the day (in 3/4 time'

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 10-9-05 - Published: 10-9-05

28. especially reviews

and especially, i think i'll sleep away the day so i can wake up within blue jazz-resounding mo(u)rnings/ they render my mind in t e c h n i c o l o u r so bright like summer storms

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 9-27-05 - Published: 9-27-05

29. the spaces where you're not reviews

and even when i pour out these mix-up, muddled-up, nonsense-words it isn't enough and you still find ways to creep back inside my head/ then everything is coloured by you

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 9-19-05 - Published: 9-19-05

30. on the off chance of sunny weather reviews

but, oh! on the off chance of sunny weather, it feels like a million-zillion doves settling in the eves of my mind, as each snowy thought falls gently into place.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-13-05 - Published: 9-13-05

31. asleep on monday morning reviews

ink drips lazily like a sunday afternoon soaking into my skin so that when i press fingertips to the plaster ceiling they leave behind pretty words and prints of my calloused hands (like fevered hearts) making mistaken angels out of girls with coloured ey

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-10-05 - Published: 8-10-05