Kitty Ryan
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since: 12-06-00, id: 28858
country: Australia
Author has written 75 stories for General, Family, School, Life, Fantasy, Supernatural, Humor, Biography, Love, Horror, Romance, Essay, and Fantasy.
I only post occaisonally, and not much of it is good. And yet, writing is rewarding. Funny how things work out like that, sometimes.

1. New Shirt reviews
Counting days in clothes you have not seen
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 50 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-5-10 - Complete
2. Sunslick gifts
It's easy to yearn, between hemispheres
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Published: 10-5-10 - Complete
3. Winter stain » reviews
"They taste like raspberries," she said, as if that explained everything. Thom has always been a closet hedonist.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,564 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-6-09 - Published: 11-28-08 - Complete
4. Refractions reviews
I catch/And drop, and am left/with ghosts, my friend." The end of a friendship.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-16-09 - Complete
5. Ephemera » reviews
Character drabbles. Playground torture, love letters, undergrads without any underwear on, spies in fires, old men and young, awkward lingerie models. Dancers, anguished gay boys and nine-year-olds learning Hebrew. Anything that gets asked of me.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 12 - Words: 4,352 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-18-09 - Published: 4-13-09
6. Constance reviews
You're JUST like your Aunt Rose.' Constance St. James slowly learns her differences. She also makes a case for herself, meets a princess, loathes a princess, and learns she might like one girl, after all. Sex and swearing.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,822 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-2-09
7. Workplace resolutions reviews
Catherine Connolly is explicitly fed up of her colleague-and the disgusting trash she reads. PWP
Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 950 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-30-09 - Complete
8. Trouble and Strife reviews
Liesel was almost ten years old, and could think for herself. That morning, she'd been thinking about fondant, rather than maths.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,257 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-12-09 - Complete
9. See no evil
He had never meant to catch her. CaryxNessa, Pornish.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,198 - Published: 2-4-09 - Complete
10. Tease
"—You had to pick the page that would make you stutter, darling."
Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 699 - Published: 1-27-09 - Complete
11. Expressions
"It really worries everyone. Personally, I wouldn't care if you never said another word, but you know you upset people. That's why you're here. Who do you think you're being kind to this time?" Catherine Connolly is, for once, more sister than doctor.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 697 - Published: 1-25-09
12. Sunlight in a Jar
The letter at on his desk; crumpled, hurried and unsent." Will Obeysekere has the house to himself for the first time in years.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 738 - Published: 1-14-09 - Complete
13. RitD C al fine
The music was beautiful. Intense. Nith's synaethesia shivered and shifted in sympathy, so he felt the leaps and runs of it as if a hand were running up his spine, passing gently over his eyes.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,567 - Published: 12-9-08
14. All clear
I am not laying down. Far too jittery. There are apples in the pantry; if I stew them, and then find the dried blueberries, there might be enough flour left for muffins? I REALLY need to get to the supermarket. Don't know why I didn't before...
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 735 - Published: 11-4-08 - Complete
15. A knack for words reviews
Paula remembers that, still. He had a knack for saying exactly the right thing, always leaving room for hope even if he didn't believe it.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 870 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-1-08 - Complete
16. Thresholds
"—Please, don't say it." They are all threshold. He has never been invited inside. She does not start now. Calla had heard the news once before, but this time, it's official.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: K - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 376 - Published: 10-27-08 - Complete
17. The Professor reviews
He laughed, yet it sounded almost wistful, and Lyra had always thought wist and laughter could never quite match up, on account of using different muscles. The man looked familiar.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,017 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-24-08 - Complete
18. Roses on the doorstep reviews
Henry's in bed with a St. James, and sleepless. An example of postcoital personality division.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 654 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-22-08 - Complete
19. Off the record reviews
Henry laughed, walking back to the sill and trying to remember how to stand naturally, possibly looking pensive—If he'd be so good. "Just letting you know," he said. "Objectification is bloody uncomfortable." Henry/Calanthe and not for children.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,249 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-30-08 - Complete
20. Waifs and Strays
"Immortal Poetry, deathless prose," Rose told her sister. "Please try to get your clichés right."
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Family/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,087 - Published: 8-23-08 - Complete
21. Clearing the desk reviews
The worst part? How can it be comfortable? I ask you! There are sharp corners and you'd have to be exactly the right height. What would you do if you were too short? Get propped up with encyclopaedias? I have several in my..." Brigid Lewis is troubled.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,154 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-27-08 - Complete
22. Tendrils and overanalytical tendencies reviews
Soft, light hair brushes her face. It is different from the sheets, probably with a whole new other colour of its own. They are clothed, warm... and what, exactly? Prudence doesn't know, and doesn't really mind. It is too early in the morning to be epic.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 859 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-26-08 - Complete
23. Moments of Pride reviews
Will Obeysekere doesn't like to call himself a storyteller.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 795 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-13-08 - Complete
24. Old paths, newly walked reviews
Whatever the whimpering white linguists had forgotten, locals remembered them. "So, professor—" this, from the old friend who had the keys to their house. "Are you still madam's Not Husband, these days?"
Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,302 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-4-08 - Complete
25. Shared Succession
"That's remarkably unkind of you. This is a public place—you're meant to be the kind one!" A sibling moment.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 606 - Published: 4-23-08 - Complete
26. Fairy Queen
Concerts are bigger than exams. Bigger than sleepovers. Bigger than her cousin's birthday where someone spiked the punch. A Camille character-piece.
Fiction: General - Rated: M - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,329 - Published: 3-20-08 - Complete
27. Flare reviews
She turned the lights off out of fear and habit, forgetting who was with her." Not suitable for small children or the cleaner minded. Porn, darlings. A present for Lady Patience.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 504 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-13-08
28. Time to tell reviews
She doesn't make a habit of it, but watching the Crown Princess' progress though school was somehow fascinating—the shifting, shrinking, expanding concentric circle of her social scene as rich and detailed as you might find in any anthropological study.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,732 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-7-08 - Complete
29. Mirrors reviews
"You're terribly obvious, you know." They both are. Incest, lesbian sex, a bit of genuine affection and a whole lot of words.
Fiction: General - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,217 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12-19-07 - Complete
30. Deluded Size Five reviews
She takes it and hauls herself up, wincing. Okay, so she isn't completely stupid. She's taking off the shoes. "Impulse buy." Because she likes pain?
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,008 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-27-07
31. Sylvia reviews
No one notices the girl on the train.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 299 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 11-26-07 - Complete
32. Silence? Elle est foutue reviews
His mother being almost halfright about it all was the worst thing, and it meant that, at almost thirty, he was speaking aloud more than he had in his entire youngadult life. Excuse my French. Er...literally.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 965 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-2-07 - Complete
33. Backformation reviews
They say that once I was not here.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 823 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-18-07 - Complete
34. Answers, always reviews
Liesel turned, leaving the tea, hands on her shoulders, feeling the urge to strike out and say just the right words more than she had in many, many years.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 452 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-18-07 - Complete
35. Flashes reviews
You draw floorplans of a house uncertain of its hemisphere...a small pantoum
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 239 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-9-07 - Complete
36. Sentence reviews
Everything, just about, is still all right. Just about. Still. For now. Somehow. Miraculously. And coffee! Coffee is good. Well...tea...
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 424 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-9-07 - Complete
37. Lying, Cinderella? » reviews
A story about stories, now more truth than lies.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 5 - Words: 4,231 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 6-6-07 - Published: 9-20-03
38. Small, fat men with dolls
I'm sorry, but I simply have no idea what to do with you!
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Published: 1-9-07 - Complete
39. Layers and botchulism reviews
A conversation poem. When big needles get in the way of haircuts.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Humor/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-21-06 - Complete
40. Morning Nonsense reviews
"Can I name him Maximilian?"/That's a long word, can you spell it?/No, but I can guess it./And find words that come Oh, so close, /Like tax, or trillion./And that is nearly Maximilian."
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-10-06
41. Comfortable Silence reviews
The air was gilded, then touched with pink, birds darkened into silhouettes in contrast, squabbling melodiously among themselves about sex and food and who had the biggest wingspan.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 934 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-1-06
42. Sitting in Corners reviews
Métis never pretended that she really fit in with her family, but at least SHE was polite! A younger sister has death-wishes for The Woman.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 495 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-14-06
43. The Quiet Confessions of a Shy Vicious Mistress » reviews
A test of my courage: leaving myself vulnerable through a collection of bittersweet dreams.
Fiction: Biography - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 10 - Words: 6,217 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 3-7-06 - Published: 5-25-04
44. A Simple Thing reviews
The third thing was this: Aud knew that she would never fit her body again. It was shrinking around her, a clenching mass of skin and limbs, and she stank. Aud would never escape the stench of herself.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Angst/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 585 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-4-06
45. God and Soup and Brick dust reviews
People insist on talking to Thyme, even when she doesn't want them to. So, Thyme talks to God, and doesn't care whether or not he's actually going to listen. Rated for language.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 553 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-3-06
46. Magpie reviews
"She's all jeans and words and sequins-and she always forgets to keep left."
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-27-06
47. Ma belle, je désire descendre reviews
"En vérité, c'est vrai." Un cadeau, c'est tout. Je vous implore que vous me pardonnez
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - French - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-13-06
48. Amphibian Evangelist
"I looked at it. My tongue caught traces of frog around my mouth. I looked again, and it seemed that I'd finally managed to swallow some religion." Ah, blessèd seclularism!
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K - English - Humor/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,021 - Published: 1-25-06
49. Darkness of the Everyday reviews
Lena never likes making an entrance after Epiphany. Somehow she always feels shabby—what, exactly, can follow such a name? The 'Crown Princess Elene', Lena knows, is anticlimactic in every sense.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 428 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1-16-06
50. Three Marks reviews
Bethan knew she had fallen for a collection of stories covered in skin, but he was also quiet and kind, talking low and serious to her. He looked at her with calm grey eyes and handed her his weaknesses, his fears, until Beth thought that she was the olde
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 574 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-15-05
51. Someone Else's Music reviews
It's almost unseemly, actually, like a painless natural labour or genuinely brilliant first-time sex. Easy weddings just shouldn't happen. It's not fair.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 526 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-8-05
52. Royal Trials reviews
Sometimes little girls can be very, very stupid.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 334 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 11-1-05
53. Pink Curtains reviews
I draw curtains to block out three in the afternoon.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-29-05
54. Alas, Alack! reviews
I mourn! Oh, how I mourn!
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-25-05
55. Questions and Answers reviews
The thought of life clutching at her with tiny, determined fingers made Verity's stomach bottom out even as it grew.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-25-05
56. 201 reviews
The chaos that is a school 'intergration office'.
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-11-05
57. Needs, Wants, Truths reviews
"Colours transformed into tastes on her tongue: mint, orange; lavender and rose petal. A dream, a kiss. An I for Isobel." A quick character sketch.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 516 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-1-05
58. A Get Well Poem Close to Midnight reviews
The wirst poem in the world, but its heart is in the right place. Honestly, though, it's an embarrasment.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 9-18-05
59. Catharsis reviews
She deserves so much better on her birthday.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 860 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-3-05
60. Coiled in Three Wires reviews
Long-distance phonecalls can be bittersweet.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 198 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 3-16-05
61. Passive » reviews
Be passive, child. Let them do what they will. (My Life as a Mannequin)
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 311 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-10-05 - Published: 6-18-03
62. Pepper Grinder: Trauma Dream » reviews
There's something so funny about all this. The break acts like hinges. I've got fingertips on the back of my wrist. Isn't that funny? Isn't it?
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 735 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-28-04 - Published: 11-14-04
63. Streetside Observations » reviews
A busy cafe scene in the shadow of a fading cathedral in Melbourne.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-6-04 - Published: 11-2-04
64. Invade Me reviews
Feel free
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-5-04
65. A Poem Free of Italics reviews
...Which is exceptionally rare, for me.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 8-28-04
66. Crying Through Sweat and a Face Mask reviews
The indignities and terror associated with medical procedures come to a head during an MRI
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-3-04
67. Fey Little Song reviews
A eulogy for a friend, two years too late.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-28-04
68. Loco Parentis reviews
Not all teacher-student abuse is sexual. Often, it can be comitted by those who just want to care. And, of course, be seen as caring.
Poetry: School - Rated: K - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-27-04
69. Fear reviews
A faded, greying werewolf desperately tries to write a letter, because she has to. Life is going back to what she is used to, so she is afraid. Sometimes, fear is nameless.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 519 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 12-10-03
70. Eight Items or Less reviews
A supermarket, a gun, and stifled laughter. A nod to all things that are both absurd and real at the same time.
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Humor/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 166 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 11-17-03
71. Why Not? reviews
A dream, or terribly real? A lonely fisherman, on an empty sea-watched by nervous eyes underwater.
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,068 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-16-03
72. Ulaile reviews
Have you ever made a word which could never fail?
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Humor/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 8-22-03
73. Lying in the Face of Convention reviews
Just a cute little thing. Don't read it if you like 'conventional' poetry. Actually, please do.
Poetry: School - Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 5-29-03
74. Girl Afraid reviews
A small look into the relationship between a daughter and mother, and why it is so hard to understand the tensions inside another human being.
Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-24-03
75. Watching the Dance reviews
A true story, about someone I know very well. Covers the issue of discrimination against those with disabilities.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Angst/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 255 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 3-7-02