Author has written 19 stories for Romance, Horror, General, Young Adult, War, Spiritual, Fantasy, and Love. You know you can see yourself in a spoon. Just as you are in real life. You’re fat. You’re ugly. Your forehead is bigger than your ass. It’s amazing how much a smelly piece of cutlery can lower a person’s self esteem to its lowest. But yet, we still use spoons. We eat our soup, yoghurts, fruit salad, chocolate mousses, candlewax, whatever.
I don't know why you want to find out about me. I'm strange. But for all you equally as strange people, here's a little bit of information of what I'm like.
Name: J.S.Danskin
Nationality: White, Scottish
Age: 15
Writing since: Properly?...8ish...
Other likes: Rock music, piano, guitar, staring at Kurt Cobain poster on roof for hours on end, reading, writing(obviously), thinking about what to write next, dreaming about leaving school and going to Uni to (hopefully) study Journalism and Creative Writing in Glasgow...hanging out with my best friends Rozzie, Andy, Laurie etc..
Favourite Authors:
Wilfred Owen
Ian Rankin
Iain M. Banks
Anne Rice
Irvine Welsh
M.T.Anderson
Malorie Blackman
Fiona Danskin (my auntie)
Stephen Fry
Favourite T.V. Programs:
I'm not a big T.V. person.
Invader Zim
Malcolm in the Middle
The Simpsons
Favourite Bands:
Nirvana
Biffy Clyro(fantastic Scottish band)
Idlewild(also fantastic Scottish band)
Franz Ferdinand(another really good Scottish band)
Muse
Sex Pistols
R.E.M.
Radiohead
The Clash
The Smiths
Placebo(I'm a Brian Molko obsessive)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Brand New
Travis(Scottish band!)
Favourite Films:
The Big Lebowski
Trainspotting
Amelie
The Matrix
Favourite Music People:
Kurt Cobain
Dave Grohl
Krist Novoselic
Brian Molko
Thom Yorke
Michael Stipe
Bill Berry
Mike Mills
Peter Buck
Patti Smith
Fran Healy
Chris Martin
Simon Neil
Again, there's more...
But anyway, it's not like anyone's reading this though, is it? Nah, I didn't think so. Okay. Well, go and check out my stuff, I've got quite a variety going.
CURRENT STORIES:
The Art of Obsession: Current Chapter: 3
Jack loves Kim. Kim loves Jack, but more than he ever realised. When he loses her in a car accident he eventually finds a way to move on with his life, and even meets a pretty girl (although much younger than him) called Isla. Just as he realises he possibly loves her more than the late Kim, he decides to propose to her on her birthday. But when he goes to the jewellers to buy an engagement ring for Isla, behind the counter is a shocking surprise that will change everything after that forever.
Unfathomable(originally Time Is Running Out): Current Chapter: 9
Ash and Jhonen have been best friends since the day they could both say "Hi" to each other. But then, when they're both verging on their eighteenth birthdays determining to set up a band and become famous, they meet Kay, a weird Goth girl that doesn't appear to have anything special. Except from the way she sings when she opens her mouth, and don't even start on the way her dazzling blue eyes can draw them into the deepest waters. It's Jhonen that feels the effect of them first but soon after he gets together with the mysterious Kay, Ash also finds himself being drawn in unwittingly, challenging the already precarious friendship of the two boys to the maximum. As if this isn't problem enough, Kay carries on her shoulders an enormous burden that may well cast her to the bottom of her own depthless ocean.
Undercurrents: Current Chapter: 1, completed short story.
Keith and his family are on holiday, and he finds it the perfect time to reminisce on his life and hopes he can hold this scenario in his mind forever. But then a cruel twist of fate occurs and his eldest grandson, Colin, is put into great peril and terror strikes the beach which was previously so contented.
Death of the Mockingbird: Current Chapter: 1, completed short story.
Band practice went great for Rob and Connor, two best friends with everything to lose but not much intentions to make any securities for themselves. But then a cruel twist of fate lies in store for the ambitious and yet selfish Connor, after which he drags his bandmates down with him.
Number One Fan: Current Chapter: 2 - Foul.
Shaun is an egotistical, bigotted presenter of "Severity Rights", a brand new music chat show on MTV (fictional!) and is well aware of his huge fanbase, taking advantage of it in every big-headed way he can think of. Jessa is a rockstar new to the scene, the guitarist/singer of a three-piece indie rock band founded with her protective elder brother Kurt and the slightly less confident Donny. She's a beautiful, talented yet shy person so it's a big surprise when none other than Shaun becomes infatuated with her, to which Jessa's big brother is none too pleased...
Jesus Christ of Rock n' Roll: Current Chapter: 3 - Big Cheese
For Sasha, it's her big break. She's alone, she's bored, she's needing something challenging. And most of all she needs a man, so is more than delighted when she's granted every wish except the latter, when Will appears. He looks like Keanu Reeves, his mind works like that of a genius. He's one of the top journalists in Washington. She's one of the top journalists in Scotland, so when they team up to write a book on the evidence for and against Kurt Cobain's murder, it's only natural that such people made for each other will have temptations. But there's a snag: Will is married to the director of the Kurt Cobain Project, and is very protective over her husband, who is also a growing heroin addict. Will he be able to fight his temptation for Sasha? If not, will he drag her down with him? Or could they get so wrapped up in the book that it's inevitable that their lives could become as Kurt's was...?
Known Unto God: War Poem
To the Dead: War Poem
Row Upon Row: War Poem
All written within a day during my trip to the battlefields in Belgium last summer, inspired by the Menin Gate ceremony at which I laid a wreath. It was a very emotional time for me and inspired me to bursting point. They were originally published on fictionpress in one file, but I decided to do it in different thingies. Known Unto God is definetely less constructed than the other two, but in a way it's meant to be like that methinks. It also contains lyrics from the song "The Green Fields of France" but only in one of the verses. I've been interested in the First World War since I read Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est", which is one of the few pieces that have changed my rather focused outlook on life. Please don't read if you're a shiny happy person, because they aren't the most cheery of poems but I hope you enjoy them.
The Eighth Sin: Current Chapter: 1 - In the Beginning There Was Marriage.
When Anna's husband, John, one of the most respected politicians in the country, makes a speech which is openly racist, it angers many of the black people in the country. So much so that when John leaves to visit his dying father in another country, Anna is left with their young daughter Brodie in the huge, lonely house. Lonely, that is, until invaders break into the house and hold Anna and her daughter in their own home. Anna soon finds refuge in one of them who is less malicious than the others and the inevitable happens...with possibly unthinkable consequences...
Key To The Abyss: Current Chapter: 2 - Monsters Under the Bed
Not really one I've been working on very much...hrrmmm...I should probably start work on it again, but I've got quite a few that I should be working on...I'm so bad! I never have time, and that's a terrible excuse. In fact, the plot of this has gone right out of my head. SOmething about vampires...go and check out the first couple of chapters that I DID put up...I'll just go into the naughty corner and hang my head in shame...
Will's Story: A Glass of Water in the Face: Current Chapter: 1 (Currently completed short story, may be made into a proper story we'll see):
Will's standing alone in a park on a windy day, all alone. He's tall, he's dark, he's empty, because he's just lost his son. This is his story. This is his monologue.
The Thin Line: Current Chapter: 4
All choirboys are poofters, right? Wrong. Si has been in Glasgow Cathedral church choir all his life and he's one of the wittiest, funniest, non-gay guys in the world. But that doesn't necessarily make him a macho, far from it. He's just Si. In a league of his own, who no one understands, especially his Dad. So when Lara, an outgoing, charismatic fifteen-year-old (about a year younger than himself) appears on the scene, it's only natural that their personalities should clash. They fight for territory and getting one over on each other. In doing this, Lara charms two of Si's brothers, Ben and Steven, and even the choirmaster, which just makes Si all the more angry. But is it anger he is feeling, or something more? Jealousy, perhaps? He tells himself no, but when Lara is involved in an accident and she whispers his name in her sleep, everything changes for better...and worse.
Last Man Standing: Current Chapter: 2
Adrian had always been the quiet, mysterious one compared to his loud and popular friend Liam, but when he meets Anya, the stunningly beautiful and mesmerising Russian immigrant all his ideas of his life before change after one night of knowing her. But the next day he has to go to fight in the Western Front with his friend Liam, leaving her with a weak promise of his return. After he is captured and his letters stop, Anya has no way of knowing whether the man she somehow loves so strongly is alive or dead and tries to find a way to survive within the cruelties of the home front when the son of the woman she and her family are staying with becomes a conscientious objector. Does she have no other choice but to marry the man who can solve her misfortunes, or will Adrian survive and return for her in time?
COMING SOON:
The Puller
It seems bizarre, but Matt Resical has the uncommon profession of working in an office where people don't come to interview him, but to kiss him! Matt is thirty-three-and-a-half-years-old and is still a virgin but has had plenty of kisses and cuddles in his time; he's a professional canoodler! Which is why when 'She' comes along, it makes it all the more special! But can she deal with his strange habits as well as her own rather bizarre lifestyle? Can they manage a way to fit them together, or will Matt have to give up his beloved job because it's just too personal?
Cold Writing
Set in the late 19th Century: A Lady of the house becomes rather fond of the stableman's young assistant and attempts to seduce him. At first he refuses but eventually they sleep together, and then the Lady disappears...only to return two years later with a one-year-old baby in hand? Is it the Lord's, or is it his own? The baby girl has the servant's eyes so it must be his...but what is the Lord's reaction to it? When the Lady dies, where can the servant go, and will he be successfully able to take his own daughter, and what will they do when years later, the past comes back to visit them with a vengeance?
Peace, Love, Empathy,
Julie |
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