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Author has written 81 stories for Family, Friendship, Life, Religion, General, General, Humor, Love, Fantasy, and Nature. About the girl Well, I'm not so much a girl anymore. A son--a toddler--and a husband are my life. And I am happier than ever. Most recent works Non Sum Qualis Eram - "I am not what I once was." Motherhood certainly changed a person, huh? Probably my favorite, ever. Dedicated to beautiful seven-week-old Aiden. "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." ~James Baldwin | |||||||||
1. Dragonfly reviewsYou fluttered back into my life with all the zest I remembered...Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-1-09 - Published: 7-1-092. Indian Nation reviewsTo travel through mountains...Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-1-09 - Published: 7-1-093. collapsiblecontusionaryI was never built right for a soldier.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-1-09 - Published: 7-1-094. Grangerhere, he is medicine man, caretaker, ghost...Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 280 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-1-09 - Published: 7-1-095. Reflectors reviewsyour whiskey costs less than your cigarettes...Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-16-09 - Published: 4-16-096. Non Sum Qualis Eram reviewsI am not what I once was. Motherhood.Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-8-08 - Published: 7-8-087. Longanimity reviewsin all my dreams, we're brand new.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-25-07 - Published: 7-25-078. Somewhere Between Here and There, I Lost reviewstalentless, apathetic, she hides away.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-25-07 - Published: 3-25-079. Chemo reviewsher hair grows like cancer.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-25-07 - Published: 3-25-0710. The Deaf Man and the Diamond Mine reviewsHer beauty is hidden under layers of earth, and he could care less about the songs she sings.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-12-07 - Published: 3-12-0711. Extinction Is Only An Example Of Natural Selection reviewshe speaks bloodshed more fluently than english.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-12-07 - Published: 3-12-0712. Marlboro Girl reviewsher windowsill is checkered with ashes.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 12-28-06 - Published: 12-28-0613. Southern Winters Are Rough On the Soul reviewsyour voice blends with the coyotes as you tell me you'll never let me go.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-3-06 - Published: 12-3-0614. The Most Lurid Definition of Defile reviewsa fragile doe steps onto asphalt.Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-14-06 - Published: 11-14-0615. Conversations Have To Be Better In Cemeteries reviews"A year ago today," he says.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 14 - Updated: 9-22-06 - Published: 9-22-0616. SN 1006 » reviewsone thousand years after the supernova, a capricorn came into my life.Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 5 - Words: 436 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-18-06 - Published: 7-24-0617. Natalie Never Knows Best reviewsthey'll take what they can get before they lose the sky.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-25-06 - Published: 7-25-0618. Seismic August In the Sun reviewsthe heat cooks sketches and prejudice and death until you can't even taste the bitter anymore.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 7-17-06 - Published: 7-17-0619. I Want To Grow Old With You Is a Heartless Phrase reviewsit smells like preservatives and maybe death where she is now, and she is so tired.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 200 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-9-06 - Published: 7-9-0620. Car Crashes Make For Ugly Sunsets reviewsgod coulddobetter.Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 20 - Updated: 4-30-06 - Published: 4-30-0621. mia is a beautiful girl reviewsshe realizes she will never look like Them.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 4-7-06 - Published: 4-7-0622. Because Life's Too Short reviewsi don't think the person who abandoned this plaid-stained green-cushioned sofa ever imagined this.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 4-1-06 - Published: 4-1-0623. Eighty reviewsmellowing out with my elbows propped on a dirty windowsill, and I'd do most anything to forget about you.Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 222 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 3-23-06 - Published: 3-23-0624. Ex Animo reviewsShe's always been one to fall for the pretty boys.Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 3-5-06 - Published: 3-5-0625. Black Wax reviewsOne-shot. "I can feel the wax moving, escaping and rising to my lungs, burning. I can't breathe..."Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 455 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-20-06 - Published: 2-20-0626. Understood reviewsMagic is destroyed by mediocrity.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 360 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-3-06 - Published: 2-3-0627. Phoebe's Not Here Right Now, May I Take a Message? reviewsshe's so much more virginal than she acts, though it's really only a technicality...Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 208 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-23-06 - Published: 1-23-0628. I'm White, You're Harvest Gold reviewsShe said four words.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 490 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-21-05 - Published: 12-21-0529. painted Monday reviewsThe sunlight only served to reveal her glorious and most unexpected failure.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 222 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 12-21-05 - Published: 12-21-0530. Immortality Before Sunrise reviewsIn the end it finally let us sleep.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-9-05 - Published: 12-9-0531. Ignite reviewsWe remember her and laugh.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-3-05 - Published: 12-3-0532. Here's To Being Vicious reviewsHere's to us cold-hearted kids, dancing in the falling fireworks and sipping from a whiskey bottle. Here's to life.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 259 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 11-26-05 - Published: 11-26-0533. Paper Maybe Blue reviewsHe tells her the tiara allows for prying eyes.Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-16-05 - Published: 11-16-0534. Jigsaw reviewsNothing and Eternity play Red Rover in the cloudsFriendship - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-14-05 - Published: 11-14-0535. Cannibal reviewsYou tease, you.Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 159 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 10-25-05 - Published: 10-25-0536. On My Knees reviewson my knees for a man againReligion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 10-14-05 - Published: 10-14-0537. Of the Less Fortunate reviewsthey were kids masquerading as poets, hiding out in the shadows of the doll factoryLife - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 10-11-05 - Published: 10-11-0538. Creation of the Rainbow reviewsA slightly cynical look at the story of Noah's ark and the rainbow.Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 271 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-5-05 - Published: 10-5-0539. Tabula Rasa reviewsMemories? Who needs 'em... I'd rather forget against the warmth of this slab.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-4-05 - Published: 10-4-0540. Lamia reviewsSo I hold his hand and watch you frown, and I sneak you a grin that whispers of hope...Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 9-15-05 - Published: 9-15-0541. Casus Belli reviewsYou started this war, brother. (Rated solely for theme.)Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-13-05 - Published: 9-13-0542. Yellow reviewsI made sure the light won't work again. I never thought darkness would be such a blessing.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-4-05 - Published: 9-4-0543. Grayscale reviewsnothing's in color anymoreLife - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-31-05 - Published: 8-31-0544. Postal reviewsThat letter was written in a fit of rage...Friendship - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-31-05 - Published: 8-31-0545. Pygmalion reviewsIf wishes were chisels...Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-24-05 - Published: 8-24-0546. EightySeven Ways To Spell My Name reviewsPlaying games (like Scrabble) in the rain with no regard for life after death.Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-22-05 - Published: 8-22-0547. And Ink reviewsHe lived a life of broken poetry... he always bled beauty.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 8-13-05 - Published: 8-13-0548. Happy Birthday, Careful of the Arsenic reviewsAnodyne mine, anodyne mine... God, we love our life.Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-6-05 - Published: 8-6-0549. Ashes reviewsIf you're waiting for the world to welcome you with open arms, you're out of luck. [references to smoking]Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-27-05 - Published: 7-27-0550. The Writer's Lament reviewsOh, what I would do to imagine the perfect words, the lines that would leave my mark on the world...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 7-26-05 - Published: 7-26-0551. DNR reviewsDo you miss her?Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-14-05 - Published: 7-14-0552. Jade Always Was My Favorite reviewsToday I saw innocence in all her broken glory.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-1-05 - Published: 7-1-0553. This Reverence reviewsThese stories make me smile.Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-29-05 - Published: 6-29-0554. Dragonfly and Butterfly Play Slapjack on Thursday reviewsOh, the things we do because we shouldn't. Too bad they're so much fun. [Drug/alcohol references. Heavy metaphors.]Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-29-05 - Published: 6-29-0555. Metathesiophobe reviewsMy every thought is in this diary, on this empty page... I think maybe I think too much for my age.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-26-05 - Published: 6-26-0556. Labret reviewsComparing religion to a lip ring...Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-21-05 - Published: 6-21-0557. Phrenology reviewsYou're drawn wrong; idiotic.Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-19-05 - Published: 6-19-0558. Inclined, or Challenged reviewsLast night I dreamt I was deaf.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-16-05 - Published: 6-16-0559. Just for the Winter reviewsThere was a stray dog in the parking lot at McDonald's. I felt bad for him. He looked hungry.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 180 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-12-05 - Published: 6-12-0560. Holy Water reviewsBlend self-pity and righteousness. Add artificial Jesus flavoring and red dye number seven. Let cool...Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-10-05 - Published: 6-10-0561. Been Like This Since Thursday reviewsThey asked me when it started. I lied and told them Thursday.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-8-05 - Published: 6-8-0562. Single Bed reviewsWatching a friend head down a road you've already travelled, and failing to stop them.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-7-05 - Published: 6-7-0563. Aftertaste reviewsShort, concise. Sometimes it takes forgetting everything about yourself to realize who you are.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-7-05 - Published: 6-7-0564. Strobe reviews"This is what you live for, this story, this light and music and feeling." Of course, life is a stage...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-2-05 - Published: 6-2-0565. Poetic Anarchy reviews"Atheist, anarchist, lost little boy... What do you believe in" Rated for language.Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-22-05 - Published: 5-22-0566. Peter Pan Complex reviews"I've gotten so old, but I've never grown up."Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-19-05 - Published: 5-19-0567. Plastic Bags are Dangerous reviewsAh, the glorious metaphors.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-18-05 - Published: 5-18-0568. Bleeding, Bleeding, Little Scar reviewsA look at how many Christians can come across as arrogant and close-minded in their faith. Not a bash on Christianity as a whole, just certain people.Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-16-05 - Published: 5-16-0569. Wanted, Alive reviewsA spiteful piece. Some people just flat-out refuse to let you know what's on their mind.Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-15-05 - Published: 5-15-0570. Little Girl reviewsNot straight out humor. Something more along the lines of satire. "You're made of magic, little girl..."General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-8-05 - Published: 5-8-0571. Class Dismissed reviewsDedicated to everyone who ever said "It'll be okay" when they knew good and well it wouldn't be.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-6-05 - Published: 5-6-0572. Farcical Intoxication reviews"Imagination is set in stone..." A half-playful stab at the façade-wearing generation I call my own.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-4-05 - Published: 5-4-0573. Musical Pedals reviewsI am your only true mistake.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-3-05 - Published: 5-3-0574. Nine Down reviewsRated only for themes. "I'm thinking about cutting back on this..."General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-1-05 - Published: 5-1-0575. Agent, Twice the reviewsRated for dark themes, which may be hard to pick up on in the first place. "Red jumps black, call checkmate, since the queen's been captured..."Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-14-05 - Published: 4-14-0576. Uhcustick reviewsAn on-the-edge-of-believing look at faith.Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-11-05 - Published: 4-11-0577. The Real Us reviewsLooking at the cookie cutter ways of humanity; rhythmic freeverse style, fairly long.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 392 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-31-05 - Published: 3-31-0578. Pretension reviews"Ah, the face of bittersweet rebellion, where being good is not getting caught..."Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-31-05 - Published: 3-31-0579. Nicotine Sweetness reviewsWhen breaking a promise can be a good thing; PG for mild references to self-harm.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-18-05 - Published: 3-18-0580. Every Other Weekend reviewsA short little four-liner that I was suddenly inspired to write; short, but I like it.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-8-05 - Published: 3-8-0581. Time Enough for Nothing reviewsA freeverse about being unable to trust someone.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-8-05 - Published: 2-8-05
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