THE BLUE HOWLER
I decided it was time for a change..

About Me (as of 29 March 2009): I am 19 years old and a graduate of Martinsburg Senior High School. I am an avid reader and language aficionada. I am bilingual English/Spanish and study several other languages independently. I've been a writer since 1999, when I got into online roleplaying and writing fanfiction. I write and read poetry and prose, but I am mostly a prolific poet. My favorite authors are Stephen King (The Dark Tower) and Terry Pratchett (Discworld). I love most kinds of music, from Insane Clown Posse to Beethoven to Voltaire, and artists from other countries like Angela Chang, The Pillows, and 99 Posse. Ska is by far my favorite music genre (think Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto, Big D & The Kids Table, Skapulario, Reel Big Fish, The Gadjits, Judge Dread). I am a Marshall University student, studying radio/tv production and management, probably double minoring in Spanish and... something else. My current extracurricular field of interest is in gnosticism. I also work at the campus radio station.

I really have nothing else really important to tell you here, and I think my work speaks mostly for itself..

You can contact me on AIM as WONDERFULIFEROUS, or on MSN as espadati@live.com or in e-mail to evilandflowers@gmail.com. My myspace is www.myspace.com/lotus_madder, and my VF is www.vampirefreaks.com/u/fallen-angel-complex. I also keep a Xanga that is geared specifically toward my writing, www.xanga.com/kapitana. Feel free to check me out at any of these sites and hit me up for a chat if you'd like.

MY FAMILY
Everyone in my family has done a little bit of writing; my mom doesn't post things on FictionPress or FanFiction.Net.
My older sister is Mistress Jakira (http://www.fictionpress.com/~mistressjakira).
My dad is Ronnie K (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/743774/).
My younger brother is Aerak3024 (http://www.fictionpress.com/~aerak3024).

My Publication History:

Anthology Publications (Latest on Top)
๗ 2008 "In Loving Memory" : A Celebration of Young Poets. (Creative Communication : contest : East Spring)
๗ 2007 "Wanderer" : A Celebration of Young Poets. (Creative Communication : contest : East Fall)
๗ 2007 "A Letter in Verse" : A Celebration of Young Poets. (Creative Communication : contest : East Summer)
๗ 2007 "The Fruit of a Golden Dawn" : Poetic Expressions. (Soul Disclosure : magazine)
๗ 2006 "Death of an Angel" : A Celebration of Young Poets. (Creative Communication : contest : East Fall)

2009 Maps to Imaginary Places: http://www.lulu.com/content/4348601 Available for sale through Lulu.com, a self-published volume of poetry written between 2002 and 2008. There are 118 poems total. Includes full-color front and back covers, 96 black and white pages. It's a 6" x 9" paperback, and despite my hate for paperbacks it's rather pleasant. Price: 20 with shipping. ALSO:"Asterisks, not Stars" download available for 30 cents (USD): http://www.lulu.com/content/multimedia/asterisks-not-stars/7162844. ALSO:"'Key' Evidence" download available for a dollar (USD): http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/key-evidence/7165477

Lulu.com Storefront: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=2800360

Blurbs: While you're around, please check out my homepage (new as of 17 November 2008). It's the myspace listed above.

Now, for updates (most recent on top!):

May 20, 2009

I took down everything I had up that didn't have a review.

Wednesday, 1:01 pm

March 29, 2009

As you might notice, I've taken a lot of my stuff down. Most of it was old, kind of crappy stuff, anyway, and I felt like it was cluttering my page, and had been doing so for way too long. I kept "Caffeine" up for as long as it was because it had twelve reviews (one of which was bad... and for a stupid reason, too, and not the obvious fact that it was a sucky poem!). I'm really not expecting to get a lot of reviews anymore (although it would be nice), so if anything I continue to post things here hoping to at least have some sort of audience base for if and when I ever publish a short story collection.

Saturday, 12:37 am

"If you fast you will bring sin upon yourselves,
and if you pray you will be condemned,
and if you give to charity you will harm your spirits.
When you go into any region and walk through the countryside,
and people receive you, eat what they serve you
and heal the sick among them.
What goes into your mouth will not defile you,
but what comes out of your mouth will defile you."
- Gospel of Thomas, verse 14 -

"As for you, be on guard against the world.
Arm yourselves with great strength,
or the robbers will find a way to reach you,
for the trouble you expect will come."
- Gospel of Thomas, verse 21 -

"Shope etetenerparage."
- Gospel of Thomas, verse 42 (in Coptic) -

"How miserable is the body that depends on a body,
and how miserable is the soul that depends on both."
- Gospel of Thomas, verse 87 -

Quotes from Yeshua