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Derek Dogan
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since: 07-28-02, id: 242442
Author has written 55 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. Last Call reviews
Tavern musings.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 289 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-8-07 - Published: 9-8-07
2. 400 Slag
A 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: 4-23-06
3. Vicarion reviews
About a friend of mine.
Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-23-06 - Published: 2-23-06
4. Strangers
Funerals.
Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-3-06 - Published: 2-3-06
5. Utopian reviews
A perfect world.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-25-06 - Published: 1-25-06
6. Rubbernecking reviews
Have 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: 1-25-06
7. America reviews
Two 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: 1-20-06
8. The Foundling reviews
Really 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: 1-19-06
9. Dooley
Dooley 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: 10-17-05
10. The Purist
To 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: 9-25-05
11. The Ninth Tier reviews
Facade.
Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 388 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-2-05 - Published: 9-2-05
12. Roses reviews
I 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: 2-20-05
13. Rise of the Bureaucrats » reviews
Better 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: 11-21-04
14. The Better Life reviews
Two 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: 4-19-04
15. Friday the 13th: A Day in the Life of Christian reviews
I 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: 4-5-04
16. The Cutting the Grass Poem reviews
On mowing my lawn.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-4-04 - Published: 4-4-04
17. Seven Wings reviews
Falling
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-4-04 - Published: 4-4-04
18. Life By Rote reviews
Routine and bitterness
Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 258 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-25-04 - Published: 3-25-04
19. The Machine reviews
I wrote it to convey a feeling, a mood, and a picture in my mind
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 178 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-13-04 - Published: 3-13-04
20. Disjointed reviews
There'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: 3-6-04
21. Scraps reviews
My 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: 3-3-04
22. The Secret Stair » reviews
John 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: 2-27-04
23. Why People Are So Stupid reviews
In 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: 2-29-04
24. The Dead Man Who Decided to Live reviews
A 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: 2-28-04
25. Stan reviews
From 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: 2-28-04
26. Blue
Thinking about stuff
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 206 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-28-04 - Published: 2-28-04
27. A Rose of Folded Shadows reviews
Life doesn't mean much when you're only seeing things in shades of darkness
Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-28-04 - Published: 2-28-04
28. Life as Usual
The 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&R
Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,773 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-25-04 - Published: 2-25-04
29. Manifesto of Self reviews
I was bored.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-20-04 - Published: 2-20-04
30. Thanatopsis and the Portrait of Dorian Gray » reviews
To 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: 2-1-04
31. Human reviews
A 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: 10-17-03
32. Outside Looking In reviews
Introspective/statement of the obvious, take it as you will
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-2-03 - Published: 6-2-03
33. Descent reviews
Into madness
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 577 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-2-03 - Published: 6-2-03
34. Fade to Black reviews
Vignette
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-2-03 - Published: 6-2-03
35. Smile reviews
Smile...
Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-3-03 - Published: 3-3-03
36. When the Stars Fade reviews
The 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: 2-3-03
37. Childhood's End reviews
Thoughts 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: 1-30-03
38. Babel reviews
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 242 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-27-03 - Published: 1-27-03
39. The Cycle reviews
The cycle of war, and death...
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 286 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-3-03 - Published: 1-3-03
40. Caught in the Gap
Change, 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: 1-3-03
41. After the Show reviews
What'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: 1-3-03
42. Words reviews
Words...
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-3-03 - Published: 1-3-03
43. Silence reviews
Very 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: 10-25-02
44. 911 Dedication reviews
Like the title says... please R&R
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 298 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-13-02 - Published: 9-13-02
45. Catherine reviews
Something 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: 9-8-02
46. Uwasa
The title is taken from the Cherokee. It means "Alone". R&R
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-27-02 - Published: 8-27-02
47. Snowflakes reviews
What 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: 8-26-02
48. Dreams reviews
A poem about love...
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 295 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-02
49. What Happened to Forever? reviews
A 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: 8-26-02
50. Stars reviews
Romantic, wistful... sort of a companion fic for Dreams
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-02
51. A Change of Perceptions
Something I wrote a long time ago. Different.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-02
52. Dancing in the Wind reviews
Nature...
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 268 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-02
53. Family reviews
It's about... just read the title, lol
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-02
54. Of You reviews
Romantic sort of poem...
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-26-02 - Published: 8-26-02
55. Rising of the Sun (unfinished) reviews
Like 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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