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since	: 09-20-03, id: 374948, Profile Updated: 11-20-09
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Author has written 25 stories for Life, General, Religion, Fantasy, Fantasy, and Love.

Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever:
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.
Senec and Plato call me from thy lore,
To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavour.
In blind error when I did persever,
Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store,
And scape forth, since liberty is liever.
Therefore farewell, go trouble younger hearts,
And in me claim no more authority:
With idle youth go use thy property,
And thereon spend thy many brittle darts.
For, hitherto tho' I've lost all my time,
Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.

- Thomas Wyatt

Nineteen chapters of 'Rings and Roses' have been uploaded onto authonomy: http://authonomy.com/ReadBook.aspx?bookid=11721#chapter

If you're writing or have written a novel and are over 18, I highly recommend this site!

At the moment I am in my third year at University, which means I have a distinct lack of time for fictionpress. I still welcome your thoughts and will of course reciprocate in due course, but I may not be as active on the site as I once was!

Regards,

Gatsby

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1. Rings and Roses » reviews
Eliza Devere, the last of an ancient prosperous bloodline, thinks herself quite secure in her secluded Georgian manor. Secure, that is, until a mirror-eyed gentleman wanders into her library and Avalon becomes more than a faerie-tale...
Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,852 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-2-09 - Published: 8-31-09

2. St Bartholomew the Great reviews
A piece inspired by my visit to the ancient London church.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-30-09 - Published: 8-30-09

3. How to Say Things Without Saying Them reviews
A poem about what happens when nothing happens.
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-7-09 - Published: 8-7-09

4. Sonnet To Ten Pints reviews
Or, at least, a sonnet about an encounter.
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-20-09 - Published: 7-20-09

5. Enamel Rose reviews
Confessional, a moment of intense and rather uncomfortable self-scrutiny.
Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 263 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-12-09 - Published: 7-12-09

6. Stockholm Syndrome reviews
A little melodramatic, perhaps.
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 232 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 4-1-09 - Published: 4-1-09

7. My Subject is Death reviews
Written upon the death of my grandmother. The refrain is taken from the Requiem mass, the final lines from the poem beginning 'My pen, take pain a little space' by Wyatt.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 397 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 3-23-09 - Published: 3-23-09

8. Affairs of the Bloody Heart reviews
Autobiographical purgatory verse.
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 376 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-22-09 - Published: 3-22-09

9. Freedom Polemical reviews
A poetic response to a couple of Evangelical sermons I attended. The subject was freedom.
Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 309 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-17-09 - Published: 3-17-09

10. Gardens of Paradise » reviews
Standard escapist writing full of princesses, jewels, gods, warriors, magic, forbidden lovers, secrets, etc. The story revolves around two nations, alienated for five hundred years but fated to collide once more. Five characters narrate.
Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 11 - Words: 33,034 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 1-18-09 - Published: 8-11-08

11. The Birthday Poem reviews
Written on my birthday.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 222 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-26-08 - Published: 12-26-08

12. Homecoming Sonnet reviews
On the prospect of returning home from University.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-26-08 - Published: 12-26-08

13. Poem to a Madman reviews
I finally plucked up the courage to post this minimalist tirade. I just hope the person it is adressed to doesn't stumble across this page...
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-4-08 - Published: 9-4-08

14. The Hermetic Corpus reviews
It may seem rather abstract if you don't get the references. It does fit loosely together, really, although this is one of my more impressionistic pieces. Which is another way of saying that it's not been finalised .
Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-10-08 - Published: 7-10-08

15. Summer Conversion reviews
This is an old piece written last summer which I've just revisited. It's about the attraction of religion, amongst other things. I'm still picking at it so suggestions are welcome.
Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 6-13-07 - Published: 6-13-07

16. Ashes reviews
A poem about my grandmother and her death several years ago.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-1-07 - Published: 4-1-07

17. Owl reviews
The knots of fate.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 3-12-07 - Published: 3-12-07

18. Awakening reviews
The ruins that night leaves in its wake.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-17-06 - Published: 12-17-06

19. Arachne reviews
Her punishment.
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 10-19-06 - Published: 10-19-06

20. Bulgaria reviews
My deliriously exaggerated impressions of the country.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-9-06 - Published: 8-9-06

21. Mirror Images reviews
A thousand reflections on the shore.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-9-06 - Published: 7-9-06

22. Mind the Gap reviews
I have seen the spaces, black.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-14-06 - Published: 5-14-06

23. Beltane reviews
The shadows twist and turn.
Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 4-28-06 - Published: 4-28-06

24. Effigy reviews
The inside of a gothic church caught my imagination.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 2-25-06 - Published: 2-25-06

25. Wind Eye reviews
His soul pouring out to stammer on the tracks...
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 10-8-05 - Published: 10-8-05