| Derek Dogan |
Author has written 63 stories for General, General, Love, Life, Horror, Humor, Sci-Fi, Friendship, and Humor. At some point during the last year, Fictionpress killed the formatting on all of my submissions. I remember having to work to force it to accept stanza breaks in the poetry by using some uncommon symbol, which I guess they started filtering for. I have no idea why the site is so opposed to the idea of stanzas. Anyway, if my work here looks like it runs on without tact, that's why. -November 2012 | |||||||
1. Keys Flashing reviewsIt's forty-six words, and you want me to summarize it?Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-18-13 - Complete2. The Shape of Silence reviewsOn leavingPoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-24-123. This is my BarakaUnderstanding.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Published: 5-31-11 - Complete4. TVP reviewsHipsters, hypocrites, and textured vegetable protein - more appetizing than it sounds, I swear. I somehow overlooked this while uploading last time; it's definitely one of my favorites. April 2009Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 267 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-17-10 - Complete5. Drift reviewsLiving day to day. March 2009Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-16-10 - Complete6. Tobacco in the CourtroomThis was a quick, funny little exercise. Not intended as "serious writing," but I like the way it turned out.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 895 - Published: 3-23-09 - Complete7. 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.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 291 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-23-098. 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.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Published: 3-23-09 - Complete9. Last Call reviewsTavern musings.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 291 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-8-07 - Complete10. 400 SlagA writer for a pulp magazine becomes involved in a real-life murder. Set some unspecified amount of time in the future.Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,523 - Published: 4-23-0611. Vicarion reviewsAbout a friend of mine.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 240 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-23-0612. StrangersFunerals.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Published: 2-3-0613. Utopian reviewsA perfect world.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-25-0614. 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?Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-25-0615. America reviewsTwo hitch-hikers in a postmodern U.S.Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 880 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-20-0616. The Foundling reviewsReally short story that begins in an alley and centers around a vagrant.Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 502 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-19-0617. DooleyDooley is my neighbor, and I hate him.Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,064 - Published: 10-17-0518. The PuristTo build without cause or hope. To struggle against adversity in the face of all reason.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 328 - Published: 9-25-0519. The Ninth Tier reviewsFacade.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 383 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-2-0520. Roses reviewsI don't like this one much anymore. Its mood depresses me while its stanzas seem very jarring and disjointed.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 184 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 2-20-0521. Rise of the Bureaucrats » reviewsReplaced with edited content to make this decent. The entire story is now in Chapter 1, and all the other chapters are redundant. Formatting might be hard on the eyes, since I altered it some time ago for printing. Copy/change font or just deal with it.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Tragedy - Chapters: 11 - Words: 35,649 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 1-26-05 - Published: 11-21-0422. The Better Life reviewsTwo bums in an alley talk about life.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,995 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 4-19-0423. Friday the 13th: A Day in the Life of Christian reviewsI got suspended for writing this about a guy a couple years back.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,994 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 4-5-0424. The Cutting the Grass Poem reviewsOn mowing my lawn.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-4-0425. Seven Wings reviewsFallingPoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 206 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-4-0426. Life By Rote reviewsRoutine and bitternessPoetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 393 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-25-0427. The Machine reviewsI wrote it to convey a feeling, a mood, and a picture in my mindPoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 254 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-13-0428. 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.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Horror/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 194 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-6-0429. Scraps reviewsMy life, technology, and the beauty that exists in nothingness.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 625 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-3-0430. 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...Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 3 - Words: 10,711 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-2-04 - Published: 2-27-0431. 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.Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,473 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-29-0432. 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.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 299 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-28-0433. Stan reviewsFrom the friends of a future serial killer. Stanley Grunhoff is a good man.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-28-0434. BlueThinking about stuffPoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 285 - Published: 2-28-0435. A Rose of Folded Shadows reviewsLife doesn't mean much when you're only seeing things in shades of darknessPoetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-28-0436. 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&RFiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,050 - Published: 2-25-0437. Manifesto of Self reviewsI was bored.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-20-0438. 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.Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,089 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 2-1-0439. Human reviewsA bit piece on what it is to be human, and the joy that comes with finally breaking the cycle...Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 359 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-17-0340. Outside Looking In reviewsIntrospective/statement of the obvious, take it as you willPoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-2-0341. Descent reviewsInto madnessPoetry: General - Rated: T - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 733 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-2-0342. Fade to Black reviewsVignettePoetry: General - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-2-0343. Smile reviewsSmile...Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 198 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-3-0344. When the Stars Fade reviewsThe depths of sheer despair one can fall to...Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 560 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-3-0345. Childhood's End reviewsThoughts on the end of one life and the begiinning of another.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 410 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-30-0346. Babel reviewsPoetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 373 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-27-0347. The Cycle reviewsThe cycle of war, and death...Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-3-0348. Caught in the GapChange, and how hard it sometimes can be...Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 397 - Published: 1-3-0349. After the Show reviewsWhat's left for us, after the show?Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-3-0350. Words reviewsWords...Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-3-0351. Silence reviewsVery symbolic. Not much else to say about this one.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-25-0252. 911 Dedication reviewsLike the title says... please R&RPoetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 232 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 9-13-0253. Catherine reviewsSomething I wrote a long time ago... but it still means something to me.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-8-0254. UwasaThe title is taken from the Cherokee. It means "Alone". R&RPoetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Published: 8-27-0255. Snowflakes reviewsWhat can I say? Something different. Please R&R!Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,594 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-26-0256. Dreams reviewsA poem about love...Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 238 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-26-0257. What Happened to Forever? reviewsA poem about youth, and just how much you can miss something once it's gone.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 297 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-26-0258. Stars reviewsRomantic, wistful... sort of a companion fic for DreamsPoetry: General - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-26-0259. A Change of PerceptionsSomething I wrote a long time ago. Different.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Published: 8-26-0260. Dancing in the Wind reviewsNature...Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-26-0261. Family reviewsIt's about... just read the title, lolPoetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-26-0262. Of You reviewsRomantic sort of poem...Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 8-26-0263. Rising of the Sun (unfinished) reviewsLike the title says...Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-26-02