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Author has written 64 stories for General, Fantasy, Life, Fantasy, Horror, General, Historical, Sci-Fi, Love, Family, Action, War, and Young Adult. 01-19-09: 6 Years - Despite disappearing for quite some time, I intend to dedicate myself to my writing once again... COMPLETED WORKS -Short Stories- PROJECTS IN PROGRESS -Short Stories- -Collections / Drabbles- -Novels- Thanks for Reading! I can also be found at: www.fanfiction.net/~cherrywoodpirate | |||||||||||
1. Breath is Just a Clock Ticking reviews“I’ve got a new boyfriend,” she slurs, tipping left and right down the boulevard, digging her nails into the shoulder pad of his designer jacket...Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-5-09 - Published: 3-5-092. Private Military ManHe is not the men that came before him; his scar is not the bullet hole or puckered flesh of a hard-won battle.Complete - War - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-5-09 - Published: 3-5-093. God Bless the MedicThe burning in his leg has died down to a dull throb, though he can still see six inches of shrapnel sticking out of it... Now EditedComplete - War - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 182 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-1-09 - Published: 2-1-094. Daddy reviewsStaring at his name tag, I see that he shares his name with my father...Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-1-09 - Published: 2-1-095. Slow, Slow Slumber reviewsThe lights go down -- the speech begins. The crowd falls to a humming silence...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-21-09 - Published: 1-21-096. Not Yet June reviewsHe sighs and thinks that this will be a hard winter...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-20-09 - Published: 1-20-097. Six Ways to SundayTake a long shower and forget, for a moment, that everyone knows your name. They know it and come tomorrow morning they’ll be using it, to your face and behind your back and six other ways to Sunday.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 994 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-19-08 - Published: 8-19-088. Sayonara, Hamelin »They come at night, mostly, men looking for something the can't get for free. Enslaved women, and all too common stories. A collection of short monologues.Young Adult - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 4 - Words: 4,332 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-1-08 - Published: 4-28-089. She Controls the Machine reviewsShe wants to think, for however long she can, that she controls the machine, and not the other way around.Complete - Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 816 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-28-08 - Published: 4-28-0810. He Let Go reviewsHe held on for as long as he could but fear was making his palms sweat and her panicked flailing made it difficult to maintain a good grip. As she slipped that last inch before the final plunge, she looked up at him with something like love in her eyes.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 734 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-16-08 - Published: 4-16-0811. Nonpareil » reviewsAn ancient empire revived and thriving. It’s intent? To bring the lands of Europe under its control once again. The next principality to fall will be Belo Ozero, tiny mountain keep as it is. There’s only one problem: the people who live there.Action - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,353 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-3-08 - Published: 1-31-0812. 50 30 20 10 reviewsSolomon's eyes were quick like flightless birds...Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-27-08 - Published: 1-27-0813. Clocks, Tick Seconds, MarchI want forever. Give me forever. Let me have forever. The clocks... Let them tick for someone else.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 231 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-13-07 - Published: 11-13-0714. Human Rust reviewsI'll run my hands through hair ... to comb out flakes of human rust.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-5-07 - Published: 11-5-0715. AndromacheAt the end of my battle, I am gone I am sacrosanct. A beloved matter. Nightmare of tiger lilies. Your Hektor, my Andromache.Complete - War - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-18-07 - Published: 9-18-0716. Holy Hell in Europe reviewsHe sets off with a train ticket and a goodbye for a friend: Goodbye and wish me luck, because there's going to be holy hell in Europe when I'm done.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 419 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-5-07 - Published: 8-5-0717. A Lovesick King for the Faint of Heart reviewsIt's there, creating phantasms out of shadows creating phantasms out of daylight.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-5-07 - Published: 8-5-0718. White China Aster reviewsThe lightest sprinkling of rain has always woken her up before, but today, in the car, she sleeps tightly, face turned toward the windows as though dreaming of sunny reflections off the stream at home A good day for driving on abandoned roads.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 333 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-21-07 - Published: 6-21-0719. A Tergo Lupi reviewsHe hasn’t called he hasn’t sent a letter he hasn’t even thought of her. That’s what she wants to say to them all. Leo is gone he’s never coming back because he’s happy somewhere else, because he couldn't let go of something else.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 843 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-7-07 - Published: 5-7-0720. All Power, No Finesse reviewsNo more and not enough, like small bells tied to branches, to ring an edict to all comers, all power, no finesse, and no remorse.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-6-07 - Published: 2-6-0721. years gone to zeroThoughts that Usurp the Views held by Withering and Xenophobic Years gone to Zero.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-5-07 - Published: 2-5-0722. Should Have Known BetterI should have know better than to think of your eyes, trying to conquer writer’s block.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 191 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-5-07 - Published: 2-5-0723. Love is Music reviewsLove is the improvisation of eighths and quarters and rests...Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-3-07 - Published: 2-3-0724. Red is the Color of Your Alarm Clock Waking“I was told I would be meeting a Captain here today. So, are you the one looking for a mercenary?” Malolov did not respond. The sun ticked lower, and as the man turned again to examine the knives in disinterest, the scarf turned burgundy in the shade.Complete - Action - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,112 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-7-07 - Published: 1-7-0725. A Revolution Passed Its Time reviewsBecause any story involving a foreign mercenary syndicate and lifethreatening shootouts is sure to inspire a little suspicion... But he shows you things to make you believe, like old battle scars you didn’t see, only felt, in the darkness of a bedroom.Complete - Action - Fiction Rated: T - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 903 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-29-06 - Published: 12-29-0626. Cuz You Can't Stop Her reviewsHe’s in deep now... Trust me: you don’t stop her,not with your sawedoff shotguns, with your fedoras and your crisp white suits.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-16-06 - Published: 11-16-0627. To a Sister, Forever with Love reviewsI just wanted to say Thank You because, even across so many miles, you were always on my side...Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 265 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-8-06 - Published: 8-8-0628. HisComVietnam reviewsI was there when the bullets ripped through Vung Tau; when the boys started falling stiff as boards, heavier than the sandbags we'd used to fortify the barracks on the hill.Historical - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 741 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-20-06 - Published: 7-20-0629. SonocytologyA voice unheard but understood in the ringing of electrolytes and blood...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-19-06 - Published: 6-19-0630. Axiom reviewsA poem writen by taking random phrases from a technical manual and arranging them in an understandable order.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-19-06 - Published: 6-19-0631. DeuceHe's alone on the boulevard, a sleek black shape amid a sea of fading white...Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-19-06 - Published: 6-19-0632. At the Mercy of Ebb and FlowAnd all who dare the sea to fight: the fools of Ebb and Flow.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-18-06 - Published: 6-18-0633. The End reviewsThe passage of time has robbed this place: 'tis the end of one and the end of all. The world has stopped.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-18-06 - Published: 6-18-0634. A Message to Those Who are LeavingTo those who have graduated and to those who are moving on to bigger and better...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 266 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-8-06 - Published: 6-8-0635. Memento Mori reviewsI gave my heart to sea-green eyes and a cool blue disposition...Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-24-06 - Published: 4-24-0636. Havoc reviewsThe hideous progeny of youth and beauty breathe in the noxious fumes of Dys and the mirror shatters, as many shards as shades reflected within your eyes that burn.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 320 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-18-05 - Published: 11-18-0537. History of the Future World: New MarsIn the year 2042, an ambitious undertaking was begun through the hard work and commitment of the New Worlds and Colonies Project, an endeavor that came to be known as the New Mars Terraformation Project...Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,037 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-14-05 - Published: 7-14-0538. So You Wanna Be a Rock Star? reviewsAt bar twelve, she’s playing. It’s all muscle memory at this point, rote memorization. The moves she’s pulling, of course, aren’t. She’s dreaming them up as she goes, imagining how cool she looks to the people jumping up and down in the front row...General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 760 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-28-05 - Published: 5-28-0539. The ScholarSoldier of Eadoin reviewsThe world and its wars had moved on, and they had left the Scholar-Soldier in its wake.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 852 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-3-05 - Published: 5-3-0540. Temptation EyesOne cannot hazard to call him innocent. It is obvious in the sway of his hips at night in the club. It is evident in his grey eyes, half-lidded as he purrs something sensual. No one can turn away from those temptation eyes.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 756 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-25-05 - Published: 2-25-0541. Perdendosi reviewsA piano lies abandoned in a white-washed room, the keys and strings long silent. What tragedy that such a beauty should lie forgotten when cruder things are praised.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 166 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-14-05 - Published: 2-14-0542. Deustrata reviewsDeus’ touch was gentle and inviting, and it was almost urging in the way it pulled just a little too roughly on Strata’s wrist. - The Praetor Strata and his slave, Deus, discover there's no use crying over spilled ink. (M/M)Historical - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,486 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-9-05 - Published: 2-9-0543. Adrammalech reviews"Here in Hell there are some rules to which you must adhere. But, of course, those rules are not at first what they appear."Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 284 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-30-05 - Published: 1-30-0544. The Life and Times of Anna Du'Arte » reviewsThe diary of Anna Du'Arte, a woman born in rural Kentucky in the late 1800s. It chronicles her journey from submissive trophey wife to big-city feminist, all through the ups and downs of an abusive marriage.Historical - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 5 - Words: 2,633 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-8-05 - Published: 12-8-0445. Falling reviewsIt's falling down, this sky of ours. We climb this precipice. The clay gives way and Angels say there is no hope for this.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-18-04 - Published: 12-18-0446. A Boulder of a Writer's Block reviewsWhat's this I find perched so precariously in my way?General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-18-04 - Published: 12-18-0447. S h a m e reviewsThe stand together in the City of Sin with wings upon their backs though torn. Two Fallen Angels.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-18-04 - Published: 12-18-0448. Pedra and Lazarus"I want you to know that you look very beautiful, and no matter what he did or said, you should never forget that.”General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,767 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-16-04 - Published: 12-16-0449. Acacia » reviewsThere are five Plagues that ravage the world: Flood, Drought, Famine, Disease, and War. But some plagues are worse than others…Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,145 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-16-04 - Published: 5-11-0450. MercyHe stands alone in the City of Grace - cold and defenseless - with the blindfold tied so tight it hurts...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-16-04 - Published: 12-16-0451. Still the DayStar Calls reviewsHave mercy on the silent sinner... Who wronged because he was wronged...Who answered the call of the day-star... Because the guilt was too much. (Poem about a vampire - pretty self-explanatory...)Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 287 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-24-04 - Published: 9-24-0452. Inscriptions reviewsAll the words that flow from pen unto a simple page come from heart and soul that lie within no saint or sage...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 253 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-22-04 - Published: 9-22-0453. Nafiel reviews"Nafiel..." The name rolled off the man’s tongue like a haunted melody; a nightmare from which he never wanted to wake up.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,363 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-22-04 - Published: 9-22-0454. Out of Tragedy reviewsOut of great tragedy comes great triumph. Out of great tragedy came Leo. Sequel to Twisted.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,814 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-6-04 - Published: 8-6-0455. Wyvern and the Avian Rhame reviewsDemon's claw and Angel's wing, combined in this unholy thing. But what is Heaven without Hell? Only time and faith with tell. (One shot epic kind of thing)Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 889 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-3-04 - Published: 8-3-0456. The Swordsman and the Cell Phone reviewsWhy underage fantasy heroes never seem to have involved parents...Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 593 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 7-31-04 - Published: 7-31-0457. Asmodee reviewsAsmodee never expected to suffer for his affections. (Sequel to The Apparition of A'Maeri)Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,419 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-29-04 - Published: 7-29-0458. The Apparition of A'Maeri reviewsThey met by chance, but their lives were more entangled than even they would care to admit.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 598 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-29-04 - Published: 7-29-0459. Twisted reviewsHe's a ghost - a ghost who still lives, but a ghost none the less. At least that's what he thinks, but that may just be the insanity talking. In the end, we're all just a little bit twisted.Horror - Fiction Rated: M - English - Horror/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,262 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-11-04 - Published: 7-11-0460. Forever reviewsI wanted it to hurt so that I could hate you... Forever.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 280 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-30-04 - Published: 4-30-0461. Stairway to Heaven reviewsThe stairway to Heaven has only seven steps...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-25-04 - Published: 4-25-0462. Same Body, Different Me reviewsYou look at me like you don’t know me, like you really don't understand.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 182 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-25-04 - Published: 4-25-04
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