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| Kitty Ryan |
Author has written 73 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. Winter stain » reviews“They taste like raspberries,” she said, as if that explained everything. Thom has always been a closet hedonist.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,814 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-6-09 - Published: 11-28-082. Refractions reviewsI catch/And drop, and am left/with ghosts, my friend." The end of a friendship.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-16-09 - Published: 5-16-093. Ephemera » reviewsCharacter 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.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 12 - Words: 4,335 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-18-09 - Published: 4-13-094. Constance reviewsYou'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.Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,257 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-2-09 - Published: 4-2-095. Workplace resolutions reviewsCatherine Connolly is explicitly fed up of her colleague--and the disgusting trash she reads. PWPComplete - Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,057 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-30-09 - Published: 3-30-096. Trouble and Strife reviewsLiesel was almost ten years old, and could think for herself. That morning, she’d been thinking about fondant, rather than maths.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Family/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,430 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-12-09 - Published: 3-12-097. See no evilHe had never meant to catch her. CaryxNessa, Pornish.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,344 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-4-09 - Published: 2-4-098. Tease“—You had to pick the page that would make you stutter, darling.”Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 690 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-27-09 - Published: 1-27-099. 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.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Family/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 766 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-25-09 - Published: 1-25-0910. Sunlight in a JarThe letter at on his desk; crumpled, hurried and unsent." Will Obeysekere has the house to himself for the first time in years.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 787 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-14-09 - Published: 1-14-0911. RitD C al fineThe 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.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,858 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-9-08 - Published: 12-9-0812. All clearI 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...Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Family/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 796 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-4-08 - Published: 11-4-0813. A knack for words reviewsPaula 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.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 971 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-1-08 - Published: 11-1-0814. 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.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 427 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-27-08 - Published: 10-27-0815. The Professor reviewsHe 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.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,014 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-24-08 - Published: 10-24-0816. Roses on the doorstep reviewsHenry's in bed with a St. James, and sleepless. An example of postcoital personality division.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 651 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-22-08 - Published: 10-22-0817. Off the record reviewsHenry 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.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,248 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-30-08 - Published: 9-30-0818. Waifs and Strays“Immortal Poetry, deathless prose,” Rose told her sister. “Please try to get your clichés right.”Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Family/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,084 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-23-08 - Published: 8-23-0819. Clearing the desk reviewsThe 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.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,151 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-27-08 - Published: 7-27-0820. Tendrils and overanalytical tendencies reviewsSoft, 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.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 857 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-26-08 - Published: 7-26-0821. Moments of Pride reviewsWill Obeysekere doesn’t like to call himself a storyteller.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 793 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-13-08 - Published: 6-13-0822. Old paths, newly walked reviewsWhatever 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?"Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,302 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-4-08 - Published: 5-4-0823. Shared Succession“That’s remarkably unkind of you. This is a public place—you’re meant to be the kind one!” A sibling moment.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 604 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-23-08 - Published: 4-23-0824. Fairy QueenConcerts are bigger than exams. Bigger than sleepovers. Bigger than her cousin’s birthday where someone spiked the punch. A Camille character-piece.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: M - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,265 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-20-08 - Published: 3-20-0825. Flare reviewsShe 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.Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 490 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-13-08 - Published: 3-13-0826. Time to tell reviewsShe 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.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,665 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-7-08 - Published: 3-7-0827. 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.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: M - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,120 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-19-07 - Published: 12-19-0728. Deluded Size Five reviewsShe 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?General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 957 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-27-07 - Published: 11-27-0729. Sylvia reviewsNo one notices the girl on the train.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 290 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-26-07 - Published: 11-26-0730. Silence? Elle est foutue reviewsHis 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.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 936 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-2-07 - Published: 11-2-0731. Backformation reviewsThey say that once I was not here.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 809 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-18-07 - Published: 9-18-0732. Answers, always reviewsLiesel 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.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 439 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-18-07 - Published: 9-18-0733. Flashes reviewsYou draw floorplans of a house uncertain of its hemisphere...a small pantoumComplete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 236 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-9-07 - Published: 9-9-0734. Sentence reviewsEverything, just about, is still all right. Just about. Still. For now. Somehow. Miraculously. And coffee! Coffee is good. Well...tea...Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 398 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-9-07 - Published: 9-9-0735. Lying, Cinderella? » reviewsA story about stories, now more truth than lies.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 5 - Words: 3,916 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 6-6-07 - Published: 9-20-0336. Small, fat men with dollsI'm sorry, but I simply have no idea what to do with you!Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-9-07 - Published: 1-9-0737. Layers and botchulism reviewsA conversation poem. When big needles get in the way of haircuts.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-21-06 - Published: 11-21-0638. 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.”Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-10-06 - Published: 4-10-0639. Comfortable Silence reviewsThe 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.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 905 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-1-06 - Published: 4-1-0640. Sitting in Corners reviewsMétis 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.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 478 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-14-06 - Published: 3-14-0641. The Quiet Confessions of a Shy Vicious Mistress » reviewsA test of my courage: leaving myself vulnerable through a collection of bittersweet dreams.Biography - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 10 - Words: 5,446 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 3-7-06 - Published: 5-25-0442. A Simple Thing reviewsThe 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.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 563 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-4-06 - Published: 3-4-0643. God and Soup and Brick dust reviewsPeople 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.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 522 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-3-06 - Published: 3-3-0644. Magpie reviews"She's all jeans and words and sequins-and she always forgets to keep left."Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-27-06 - Published: 2-27-0645. Ma belle, je désire descendre reviews"En vérité, c'est vrai." Un cadeau, c'est tout. Je vous implore que vous me pardonnezLove - Fiction Rated: K+ - French - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-13-06 - Published: 2-13-0646. 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!Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 988 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-25-06 - Published: 1-25-0647. Darkness of the Everyday reviewsLena 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.Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 419 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-16-06 - Published: 1-16-0648. Three Marks reviewsBethan 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 oldeRomance - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 563 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-15-05 - Published: 12-15-0549. Someone Else's Music reviewsIt’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.Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 510 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-8-05 - Published: 11-8-0550. Royal Trials reviewsSometimes little girls can be very, very stupid.Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 330 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-1-05 - Published: 11-1-0551. Pink Curtains reviewsI draw curtains to block out three in the afternoon.Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-29-05 - Published: 10-29-0552. Alas, Alack! reviewsI mourn! Oh, how I mourn!Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-25-05 - Published: 10-25-0553. Questions and Answers reviewsThe thought of life clutching at her with tiny, determined fingers made Verity’s stomach bottom out even as it grew.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-25-05 - Published: 10-25-0554. 201 reviewsThe chaos that is a school 'intergration office'.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-11-05 - Published: 10-11-0555. 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.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 508 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-1-05 - Published: 10-1-0556. A Get Well Poem Close to Midnight reviewsThe wirst poem in the world, but its heart is in the right place. Honestly, though, it's an embarrasment.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-18-05 - Published: 9-18-0557. Catharsis reviewsShe deserves so much better on her birthday.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 828 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-3-05 - Published: 4-3-0558. Coiled in Three Wires reviewsLong-distance phonecalls can be bittersweet.Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 184 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 3-16-05 - Published: 3-16-0559. Passive » reviewsBe passive, child. Let them do what they will. (My Life as a Mannequin)Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 257 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-10-05 - Published: 6-18-0360. Pepper Grinder: Trauma Dream » reviewsThere’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?Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 645 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-28-04 - Published: 11-14-0461. Streetside Observations » reviewsA busy cafe scene in the shadow of a fading cathedral in Melbourne.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-6-04 - Published: 11-2-0462. Invade Me reviewsFeel freeLove - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-5-04 - Published: 11-5-0463. A Poem Free of Italics reviews...Which is exceptionally rare, for me.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-28-04 - Published: 8-28-0464. Crying Through Sweat and a Face Mask reviewsThe indignities and terror associated with medical procedures come to a head during an MRILife - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-3-04 - Published: 8-3-0465. Fey Little Song reviewsA eulogy for a friend, two years too late.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-28-04 - Published: 5-28-0466. Loco Parentis reviewsNot 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.School - Fiction Rated: K - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-27-04 - Published: 5-27-0467. Fear reviewsA 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.Supernatural - Fiction Rated: T - English - Suspense/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 490 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-10-03 - Published: 12-10-0368. Eight Items or Less reviewsA supermarket, a gun, and stifled laughter. A nod to all things that are both absurd and real at the same time.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 11-17-03 - Published: 11-17-0369. Why Not? reviewsA dream, or terribly real? A lonely fisherman, on an empty sea-watched by nervous eyes underwater.Supernatural - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 973 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-16-03 - Published: 11-16-0370. Ulaile reviewsHave you ever made a word which could never fail?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 8-22-03 - Published: 8-22-0371. Lying in the Face of Convention reviewsJust a cute little thing. Don't read it if you like 'conventional' poetry. Actually, please do.School - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-29-03 - Published: 5-29-0372. Girl Afraid reviewsA small look into the relationship between a daughter and mother, and why it is so hard to understand the tensions inside another human being.Family - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-24-03 - Published: 2-24-0373. Watching the Dance reviewsA true story, about someone I know very well. Covers the issue of discrimination against those with disabilities.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 254 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 3-7-02 - Published: 3-7-02
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