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| Derek Dogan |
Author has written 58 stories for General, General, Love, Life, Horror, Humor, Sci-Fi, and Friendship. I'm 21, and I've recently turned my back on computer science to pursue writing. I don't often update this page, so much of what you see here will be older than you realize. I use Fictionpress mainly as an archive for writing I've finished modifying (for better or for worse) and think worthy of preservation in case my hard drives fail. Feedback is, of course, welcome; occasionally it gives that spark to a piece that needs something I can't quite figure out. I'm open to correspondence and the occasional cooperative story - though this is an unusually busy year for me, so it may take me awhile to get back to you. | |||||||||
1. Tobacco in the CourtroomThis was a quick, funny little exercise. Not intended as "serious writing," but I like the way it turned out.Complete - Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 916 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-23-09 - Published: 3-23-092. The Girl Who Became A Butterfly reviewsI quite like this one. I'm still working on it, but this will probably be one of my best when finished.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 293 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-23-09 - Published: 3-23-093. I Saw Myself in a GlassI was playing with internal rhyme and rhythm here, and both are pretty good. This is not viable, though, and I've abandoned it.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 178 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-23-09 - Published: 3-23-094. Last Call reviewsTavern musings.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 289 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-8-07 - Published: 9-8-075. 400 SlagA writer for a pulp magazine becomes involved in a real-life murder. Set some unspecified amount of time in the future.Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,492 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-23-06 - Published: 4-23-066. Vicarion reviewsAbout a friend of mine.Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-23-06 - Published: 2-23-067. StrangersFunerals.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-3-06 - Published: 2-3-068. Utopian reviewsA perfect world.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-25-06 - Published: 1-25-069. Rubbernecking reviewsHave you ever been in one of those traffic jams where everyone has to stop and look for a few seconds once they reach the accident?Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-25-06 - Published: 1-25-0610. America reviewsTwo hitch-hikers in a postmodern U.S.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 837 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-20-06 - Published: 1-20-0611. The Foundling reviewsReally short story that begins in an alley and centers around a vagrant.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 492 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-19-06 - Published: 1-19-0612. DooleyDooley is my neighbor, and I hate him.Humor - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,015 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-17-05 - Published: 10-17-0513. The PuristTo build without cause or hope. To struggle against adversity in the face of all reason.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 331 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-25-05 - Published: 9-25-0514. The Ninth Tier reviewsFacade.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 388 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-2-05 - Published: 9-2-0515. Roses reviewsI don't like this one much anymore. Its mood depresses me while its stanzas seem very jarring and disjointed.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 2-20-05 - Published: 2-20-0516. Rise of the Bureaucrats » reviewsBetter than all the 'I was hyper and wrote something random' entries you'll see on this page... give it a read.Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Tragedy - Chapters: 11 - Words: 17,632 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 1-26-05 - Published: 11-21-0417. The Better Life reviewsTwo bums in an alley talk about life.Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,795 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 4-19-04 - Published: 4-19-0418. Friday the 13th: A Day in the Life of Christian reviewsI got suspended for writing this about a guy a couple years back.Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,677 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 4-5-04 - Published: 4-5-0419. The Cutting the Grass Poem reviewsOn mowing my lawn.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-4-04 - Published: 4-4-0420. Seven Wings reviewsFallingLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-4-04 - Published: 4-4-0421. Life By Rote reviewsRoutine and bitternessLife - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 258 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-25-04 - Published: 3-25-0422. The Machine reviewsI wrote it to convey a feeling, a mood, and a picture in my mindLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 178 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-13-04 - Published: 3-13-0423. Disjointed reviewsThere's a strange and horrific cycle of agony and human failing everywhere you look. Everything is a pattern, logical and frightening and cold and correct, but everything is so... disjointed.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-6-04 - Published: 3-6-0424. Scraps reviewsMy life, technology, and the beauty that exists in nothingness.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 475 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-3-04 - Published: 3-3-0425. The Secret Stair » reviewsJohn Winterborn discovers a portal between worlds, a 'secret stair' that may hold the key to the infinite. Only problem is, he's not alone...Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 3 - Words: 9,603 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-2-04 - Published: 2-27-0426. Why People Are So Stupid reviewsIn the beginning there were two civilizations. One was a glorious utopia, the other a stinking den of naked savages. Guess which side won the war.Humor - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,348 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-29-04 - Published: 2-29-0427. The Dead Man Who Decided to Live reviewsA random dead guy decides he'd like to see what it's like, being alive in our day and age. Disgusted, he drinks himself to death. A humor poem.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 212 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-28-04 - Published: 2-28-0428. Stan reviewsFrom the friends of a future serial killer. Stanley Grunhoff is a good man.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-28-04 - Published: 2-28-0429. BlueThinking about stuffLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 206 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-28-04 - Published: 2-28-0430. A Rose of Folded Shadows reviewsLife doesn't mean much when you're only seeing things in shades of darknessLife - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-28-04 - Published: 2-28-0431. Life as UsualThe subordinate intern assistant janitor in training at the local Unemployment Office gets irritated with his station in life. What's a guy to do? Go on a city-wide crime spree, of course! R&RHumor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,773 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-25-04 - Published: 2-25-0432. Manifesto of Self reviewsI was bored.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-20-04 - Published: 2-20-0433. Thanatopsis and the Portrait of Dorian Gray » reviewsTo become a mixture of Gothic ambience and science fiction, with more than a healthy dose of the horrifically supernatural. More of a rough draft than anything. The first chapter is really just there for setup... Read it or don't.Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,892 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-1-04 - Published: 2-1-0434. Human reviewsA bit piece on what it is to be human, and the joy that comes with finally breaking the cycle...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 291 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-17-03 - Published: 10-17-0335. Outside Looking In reviewsIntrospective/statement of the obvious, take it as you willLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-2-03 - Published: 6-2-0336. Descent reviewsInto madnessGeneral - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 577 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-2-03 - Published: 6-2-0337. Fade to Black reviewsVignetteGeneral - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-2-03 - Published: 6-2-0338. Smile reviewsSmile...Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-3-03 - Published: 3-3-0339. When the Stars Fade reviewsThe depths of sheer despair one can fall to...General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 371 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-3-03 - Published: 2-3-0340. Childhood's End reviewsThoughts on the end of one life and the begiinning of another.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 303 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-30-03 - Published: 1-30-0341. Babel reviewsGeneral - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 242 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-27-03 - Published: 1-27-0342. The Cycle reviewsThe cycle of war, and death...General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 286 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-3-03 - Published: 1-3-0343. Caught in the GapChange, and how hard it sometimes can be...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 465 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-3-03 - Published: 1-3-0344. After the Show reviewsWhat's left for us, after the show?General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-3-03 - Published: 1-3-0345. Words reviewsWords...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-3-03 - Published: 1-3-0346. Silence reviewsVery symbolic. Not much else to say about this one.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-25-02 - Published: 10-25-0247. 911 Dedication reviewsLike the title says... please R&RGeneral - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 298 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-13-02 - Published: 9-13-0248. Catherine reviewsSomething I wrote a long time ago... but it still means something to me.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-8-02 - Published: 9-8-0249. UwasaThe title is taken from the Cherokee. It means "Alone". R&RGeneral - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-27-02 - Published: 8-27-0250. Snowflakes reviewsWhat can I say? Something different. Please R&R!General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,818 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-0251. Dreams reviewsA poem about love...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 295 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-0252. What Happened to Forever? reviewsA poem about youth, and just how much you can miss something once it's gone.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 328 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-0253. Stars reviewsRomantic, wistful... sort of a companion fic for DreamsGeneral - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-0254. A Change of PerceptionsSomething I wrote a long time ago. Different.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-0255. Dancing in the Wind reviewsNature...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 268 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-0256. Family reviewsIt's about... just read the title, lolGeneral - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-0257. Of You reviewsRomantic sort of poem...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-0258. Rising of the Sun (unfinished) reviewsLike the title says...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-02
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