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Author has written 22 stories for Nature, Spiritual, Fantasy, Supernatural, Love, Life, General, Friendship, Young Adult, General, and Romance. August 2008. I am a recent graduate of Central Washington University with a degree in Geography, emphasizing in Environmental and Resource Management. Soon after gradutation, I obtained a job with an environmental consulting company, Nothern Resource Consulting, Inc. It is a small business in Longview, Washington. I am an environmental technician and do a lot of water quality sampling, editing reports for my boss, and occassionally doing such fun exciting things as fish removal in streams. Sometimes, I get to hang out on a boat all day, gathering water samples. I love horses. I could write and write and write all about horses and never grow tired of it. During my career as a student, I have written many research papers about wild horses and their management. If anyone is interested, shoot me an email and I'd love to chat! I have my own horse. He is an appendix Quarter Horse, meaning that he is bred to run. I have trained him for barrel racing. I plan to start doing that again, soon, hopefully. I used to do it all the time in high school, but it's been hard lately without the money for it, not to mention a horse trailer. He's been a great little pony. Lots of personality and he always makes me happy. Right now, he's living with my in-laws since it became too expensive to board him in town. So I get to see him maybe once a month now. Currently I am working on The Golden Mare and would love any and all feedback on that story. It's out of my usual genre (it's romance and I have usually written sci-fi/adventure/fantasy) but since I haven't been writing a whole lot in the past four years, I won't argue with myself if that's all I can write. I'm just glad to be writing again! It's also my first fiction story that is about a horse. Surprising, huh? My usual horse stories have been short short stories, or non fiction. So here goes with The Golden Mare. If you happen to read it, I hope you enjoy! ~Happy trails web pages: http://wrider.livejournal.com/, www.myspace.com/wrider some favorite quotes of mine: What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way. - Mary Austin “Diversity is not a characteristic of life; it is a condition necessary for life ... like air and water.” -Barry Lopez “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” -Edward Abbey “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit” -Edward Abbey "'He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures god ever made.'" -Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer "Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances ... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action ..." -D.H. Lawrence | |||||||||
1. The First Shall Be LastHumans have landed on new planet and colonized it. They think they have found no sentient life...but those who they have categorized as animals are actually a society of people. Only one teen human has realized that.Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,437 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-15-09 - Published: 7-15-092. The Christmas FoalAn oldie of mine that I keep revising every year for the holidays. A rancher finds a newborn foal in a blizzard. With its mother dead, the rancher takes the foal home in hopes he can save it.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,108 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-10-08 - Published: 12-10-083. The Golden Mare » reviewsAgate McFarland has returned home from college to NW Montana where her father raises and trains mustangs. She buys a previously abused golden mare and hopes that by befriending her, she can leave her own tragic past behind.Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 7 - Words: 10,109 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 4-13-08 - Published: 2-9-084. Goodbye, SadonnaThis is a little account of the death of a horse that I found hiding in my documents folder and decided to dust off and share. It might be a little graphic...Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 810 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-9-08 - Published: 4-9-085. In Grandmother's Footsteps » reviewsAfter Elisabeth Watkins was in a horse riding accident, her mother swore her daughter would never ride again, lest she meet the same fate as her Grandmother. Elisabeth Watkins, however, had a dream to barrel race just like her grandma.Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 4,305 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-21-06 - Published: 10-19-056. Remember Me reviewsGo back - go back - remember me in all my grace, in all my greatness...General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-14-05 - Published: 11-14-057. Take My Hand reviewsThe future is a dark, meandering path. There are monsters in the shadows, rocks in the walkway, mountains to climb and streams to cross. So, here I ask you to amble with me a while. Together, we can forge into the unknown.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 225 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-1-05 - Published: 6-1-058. The Last Ride reviewsI think making my own summary would take from the poem - read and decide for yourself! From the dimming shadows, the horse came galloping...Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-9-05 - Published: 5-9-059. Seek It reviewsSeek the dwelling for living dreams...it's out there..Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-10-05 - Published: 2-10-0510. The Race: An account of a western games raceThe green gate clanked as the group of riders sped through and into the arena. The horses were snorting with excitement and going in on their toes with their eyes wild and flanks bathed in sweat. Then, the announcer spoke, signaling a green light, permissComplete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,048 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-13-05 - Published: 1-13-0511. Desert Race reviewsJust a little blurp formed into a poem about racing horses out on the sand dunes. I think it really embodies the essence of racing horses for fun and the way the rider's feel - or at least how I feel when I am racing my horse.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-30-04 - Published: 11-30-0412. Lost DreamThis poem was inspired by a horse that I once owned and sold because she couldn't take me to my dreams. She was fast around a barrel, but not fast enough to compete in college rodeo and beyond to higher stakes. She died shortly after I sold her.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 271 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-23-04 - Published: 10-23-0413. Come HomeI will keep you forever, unto the dying of this world...come home, oh weary love. I will make my mistake right again.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-7-04 - Published: 8-7-0414. Falling Feathers » reviewsCOMPLETE STORY When an injured wolf shows up at the wildlife rescue clinic, the ranchers of the area protest wildly at having a wolf so near them. Then the wolf turns up missing with no trace, or evidence...Supernatural - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 5,255 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-22-04 - Published: 7-4-0415. Bowen reviewsA faint rustle b'neath his wandering feet as star's faint light steers him from night to night...Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-22-04 - Published: 1-22-0416. Beaten Earth reviewsA forest is lost, the great trees never to be again, will this earth be forever made of sapling trees? Will our ancient forests each fall, one by one? r/r, I'll return the favor!Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 269 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-7-03 - Published: 9-7-0317. Mischievous Sprite reviewsGuided deep into the woods by a playful fairy and made lost, how is a person supposed to get home when the little being won't guide them?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 4-25-03 - Published: 4-25-0318. Flight of Dragon and Child reviewsHm....the flight of a dragon and a child.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 3-21-03 - Published: 3-21-0319. Dance of The Faeries reviewsWell, the title pretty much sums it up, so I'm not going to bother with some great summary.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 2-16-03 - Published: 2-16-0320. The Return reviewsA young woman lets her horse go free out on the range, but a year later has second thoughts and hopes, as she waits, that her horse will return.Spiritual - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 950 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-4-03 - Published: 2-4-0321. The Old Man reviewsA girl's best friend dies and she travels to see someone she met on line for comfort and is confronted by a strange old man.Spiritual - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,422 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-4-03 - Published: 2-4-0322. The Gift Of The Horse reviewsThe sturdy beast, the horse, changed the lives of the American Indians many, many years ago.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-4-03 - Published: 2-4-03
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