Jaclyn
Follow . Favorite . Feed
since: 07-26-00, id: 14524
Author has written 84 stories for General, and General.
Um...me. Well, I write fic, originals, and poetry (lately, mostly poetry). I'm very into imagery and angst, so if that's your thing, please do feel free to read and review ;)

If you like fic, especially from the Jossverse, check out http://fanfiction.net/~jaclyn for a more complete bio on me 'n my fandoms ;)


1. You and the Sky reviews
What it comes down to.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 1-2-05
2. sonnet to Insomnia, no 2 reviews
and you speak / without commas
Poetry: General - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-15-04
3. the sky messy with stars reviews
You are on a stairwell.
Poetry: General - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 12-15-04
4. violation reviews
so subtle, what I see there / what may or may not / be there
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-15-04
5. a song made of dust reviews
with what do you fill the poem / when it is only words?
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-9-04
6. Inheritance reviews
i will open up yesterday / like a flower for you
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 6-9-04
7. once upon a time, the end reviews
Words in a mirror aren't poetry, just a cheap reflection.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5-2-04
8. they called them savages reviews
Wondering if it's the same world for everyone.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 59 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-2-04
9. shiva's rampage reviews
Destruction isn't as clear-cut as you think.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-2-04
10. simple truth reviews
This is the simple truth.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 32 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-2-04
11. recognition reviews
It's a strange hurt, your breath in my palm.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-2-04
12. she says, pretend you're not writing it reviews
Trying to get back into the swing of things.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5-1-04
13. love song reviews
Turns out the light at the end of the tunnel wasn't a train after all. [I wrote this in a burst of optimism. It's short and sweet and it's rather like the end of a story, where for once, everything works out.]
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-1-04
14. just a hollow kind of want reviews
Written while lying on my stomach in the hallway in the dark. And I think you can sense that in the poem, that ambience.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-1-04
15. to face the mirror and find no reflection reviews
"nothing more than what you are / and it is not enough"
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-30-04
16. by existing, the poem becomes hypocrisy reviews
A rose is a rose is not a rose in pieces.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-30-04
17. before the crime report, there was only this reviews
After a while, it's easier to just swallow these words and think of the sky.
Poetry: General - Rated: M - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-30-04
18. barren reviews
And when you strip away everything-
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-30-04
19. building a tower of babel reviews
"and i keep looking for things / that mean nothing"
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-30-04
20. stone soup reviews
Looking for redemption in all the wrong places.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-20-04
21. lamentation reviews
"And if the halfhearted gestures of your hands are the melody"
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 41 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3-20-04
22. Fairytale, Shaken and Stirred reviews
The title is the summary, actually. Two people's story turned on its head.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 12-6-03
23. Poem carved on a piece of broken glass reviews
and you have to ask yourself / these questions that have no endings
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 11-30-03
24. Poem heard in the crackling of flames reviews
"I'm going to write you a poem parallel to your delusions."
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 11-30-03
25. Rainbow With Only One Color reviews
[Do you know- ] The kinds of questions that have no answers, withering under that endless red sky.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-23-03
26. Hopscotch with Broken Glass reviews
The true nature of beauty. / broken glass and broken smiles, not so very different. /
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-20-03
27. Snapshot Held Together by Inadhesive Glue reviews
The pieces of this hell are too small to pick up, and maybe it's better that way.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-20-03
28. Warbroken Girl reviews
This is how you put yourself back together when you are broken. This is how you stitch yourself back together when you cannot be fixed.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 358 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-14-03
29. Dizzy Girl reviews
Vertigo from inside the circles.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 563 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-14-03
30. Implosion reviews
A song split at the seams, a chasm.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-14-03
31. Milk Carton reviews
Tragedy looks different from the periphery. / and this is why nobody talks anymore. /
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 180 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-13-03
32. Fairyland reviews
Fairyland in black, from the corner of your eye.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10-13-03
33. Dust at My Feet reviews
Desperate smiles and the way things are.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10-12-03
34. Again with the Silly Eternal Questions reviews
Falling angels, and redemption is just something we made up. [working title, for lack of a more inspired one]
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-12-03
35. Calculus Review reviews
Where is the end of a circle and does it ever die?
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-12-03
36. Sonata at Midnight reviews
Even our beginning was an ending. / just say what you can /
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-12-03
37. Spin Doctor reviews
It's not so unnatural.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-12-03
38. Can We Rest Now? reviews
/ and the question has never been /
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-12-03
39. Until reviews
Light like colored candy, in the dark.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 10-11-03
40. Betrayal reviews
/ slitted snake eyes and you / Going full circle.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-11-03
41. Study of a Static Object reviews
Full title: Study of a Static Object in A Weather-Related Natural Phenomenon. [Summary: Chaos has a way of blurring what's outside of you.]
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-11-03
42. The Physics of Being Hardened reviews
Science without the antiseptic.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-11-03
43. Plea reviews
/ rip each other to pieces and why /
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-11-03
44. Blackout reviews
As if it means something to be lying here in the dark with the electricity fizzled out and the air heavy with stillness and heat.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-11-03
45. Marathon reviews
Just glide. [My attempt at something easy on the angst.]
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-11-03
46. Overpower reviews
..:: petals leading nowhere, one by one.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-11-03
47. Panicked Shadows aka Elastic Memory reviews
She pours out her heartbeat into these two-dimensional words and hopes that the picture they paint is elastic enough to last when they are only a memory, when they are all she has.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6-3-03
48. Other People's Time reviews
Nights bleed into nights bleed into this road stretching before me.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-3-03
49. False Sounds reviews
"...too much to show you. (i am upright; i am fine"
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-3-03
50. maybe in the dust there are answers to be found reviews
She would like to think so.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-3-03
51. Definitions in Pain reviews
In three weeks, they're gonna thread me like a needle and burn away part of my heart.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-3-03
52. Safety reviews
"Forgive me for never letting this go, but I..."
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 57 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-3-03
53. Broken Flowers reviews
"The words are glinting like metal, writhing and melting into something harder..."
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-3-03
54. Acquiescence reviews
Just color in the pale edges of the words that hide in the shadows.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-3-03
55. Shedding Guilt reviews
The baby takes up so much space inside of her, and she doesn't know how much longer she can stand this buried pain. / ...but the words clump and stick in her throat like peanut butter, and too late she finally understands the lie.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 952 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-5-03
56. Unfurling As She Breathes reviews
/ there are no sharp lines, not like regular pain, no angles to catch a finger on, not like hurt. /
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 1-19-03
57. Crumbling reviews
3 am, and nothing is how it's supposed to be.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 1-19-03
58. An Exercise in Almosts reviews
"...thready wisps leaving a meager trail of / something smokily unattainable..." (How can you summarize something you've already lost?)
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 11-16-02
59. Life in a Nutshell » reviews
A series of short poems, mostly unrelated. Either angsty or leaning that way ;) Includes Dripping into Disappearance and Slave to Freedom.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 6-9-02 - Published: 6-1-02
60. Lying reviews
"He says he wonders why I don't smile anymore." (Rather hard to summarize in a sentence, so it's easier just to quote the first line.) I'm proud of this piece; I like to think it's multilayered...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 339 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 5-26-02
61. Charred reviews
do you know that/i sit here with/nothing inside of me/but ashes
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 5-26-02
62. Begging Transcendence reviews
It wasn't spite that made me crave it all. (It's hard to explain...but I like the poem.)
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 5-26-02
63. a sky of spilled ink reviews
She speaks of escape and desperation...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 15 - Published: 5-5-02
64. Oily Words reviews
She tries to hide behind cheery, upbeat music when faced with the destruction around her. It doesn't work for me. And I don't know that I want it to. (For the record, I really like this one...please read it...I thrive on feedback...)
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 437 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 5-2-02
65. Desert reviews
Beaten down, but trudging on...right? (Sorry, this poem doesn't lend itself well to summaries)
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 213 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 5-2-02
66. Untitled Turmoil reviews
"The mystery and the stunted bubble of joy that rolls in my stomach could easily be popped if..." 'If' what? :) Read to find out...
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 281 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-2-02
67. Kindling » reviews
"I didn't mean to hurt you, but I was angry and it was easy to find your faults: because we're all flawed anyway."
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 593 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-4-02 - Published: 3-20-02
68. The Fight reviews
Based on a horrible misunderstanding with a friend in which she thought I did something I didn't do. We straightened it out, but I was a wreck the whole day. / Here's a teaser for you: "the screech of retaliation is arrowing through my mind..."
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-20-02
69. Ripping Up Picassos reviews
A complex story about finding oneself. Joanna's mother, a closed, dysfunctional woman, tries to stop Joanna from expressing herself as the artist she is. And what's this about her father? I'm really proud of this one and would appreciate your feedbac
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,583 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 3-18-02
70. Coffee Rings reviews
"shriveled and bloodstained, my heart cowers / the glass of the bottle is alluring in the half-light..." A drunk hazily contemplates. This poem was well-received by my friends and the two teachers I showed it to.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 3-16-02
71. The Failure reviews
Title pretty much says it all...I had this image in my head that I just had to describe.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-2-02
72. Midnight reviews
A poem of hope with sad undertones.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 2-11-02
73. Ripping Up Picassos: An Anorexia Abstract reviews
"I can just see myself, a whirlwind in a stunned museum of..." An anorexic girl dreams of ripping up Picassos, with their clashing colors and stretched out, swollen people. I realize the summary sounds odd, but please just give it a chance :)
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 2-11-02
74. Overburdened reviews
"And dancing is entirely out of the question..." I had a LOT of homework one night, and suddenly, out poured this poem about a "rose" who's dying under the harsh glare of everyone else's expectations...I really like this one, & appreciate all feedback.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 244 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 1-30-02
75. Tinted Daylight reviews
This poem sort of just came out of me in a rush...and I really don't know how to summarize it, so here's an excerpt instead: ...Her hands twitch, an anxious insect dance...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 207 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 1-27-02
76. Helpless reviews
Sometimes you can get stuck in a bad situation without truly being aware of how you got there. In this case, her boyfriend is a drunk. (Note: this is completely unrelated to my life or to the life of anyone I know.)
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 270 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 9-28-01
77. Ocean Treasure reviews
I think it's very poetic, and it's actually not - *gasp* - angst. My friend called it "beautiful." Please read it, and I would love to hear your feedback...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 9-28-01
78. You've Changed reviews
Is failed romance considered romance? Because the poem is angsty with a creative touch, but I put "romance" for the secondary genre anyway...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 9-28-01
79. Grieving reviews
My way of dealing with September 11's tragedy. The poem's sad, obviously.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-14-01
80. Snowflake reviews
She yearns for the freedom of the skies . . .
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 184 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 2-1-01 - Published: 7-27-00
81. Goddess reviews
I'm not saying anything other than what the title is . . .
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 7-28-00
82. Loss reviews
The title says it all . . .
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 7-28-00
83. The Red Star reviews
Three poems about red stars (which are dying stars). I like the first one the best. The second is ok, and the third is just a stupid rhyming one. But the first one's good (in my humble opinion). Oh whatever, just read 'em!
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 631 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 7-28-00
84. Excitement reviews
A metaphorical way of looking at excitement . . .
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 7-27-00