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| Jareth the Monk |
Author has written 37 stories for General, Politics, Fantasy, Love, Life, Sci-Fi, Religion, Fantasy, and Song. I have totally re-vamped this page mainly because I got bored with it, but also partly because I am secretly depressed about discovering that I'm starting to actually get a little older now and I'm acting out in the only childish way I know how. Here are some stats like favorite things, likes and dislikes, vicious rumors, etc. Favorite Movies 1) The Great Dictator (1940, Charlie Chaplain) Favorite Books- in no particular order: The Foundation Series (Isaac Asimov), Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Dark Tower Series (Stephen King), The Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling), Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (A. Conan Doyle), Encyclopedia Brittanica (all of them), City of New York Phone Directory (1936 edition), Necronomicon Cook Book- Recipes from Innsmouth (Plooopfrzzlllpt Shhhvlgggthoomha XXVII, PhD.), Transcripts of the Nixon Watergate hearings (1974), Sister's Filthy Desires (translated by Josef Preetz), The Joy of Teen Pregnancy (co-authored by the "Choose Abortion Its Your Legal Right" Coalition), The Most Blasphemous Book in the Universe (anonymous). Favorite Music- Pretty much anything except rap, punk, or 90 percent of anything on American radio. But I do greatly enjoy classical, metal (the European stuff), psychaedelic, goth, classic rock, prog and space rock, bluegrass, 80s alternative and college rock, pre- Hank Jr and truck-driving country, folk, some instrumental jazz, world music like from Asia India or eastern Europe, anything that's at least 500 years old and creepy. Favorite TV Shows- Except for weather reports, they all SUCK. | |||||||||
1. The Golden Curse » reviewsAlteng and his friends try to recover a lost treasure that once belonged to his wife, which is also coveted by an evil mastermind for a different purpose. Part of The Further Adventures of Altenglisch Hans Cuxhaven, in perpetual progress.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 10,209 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 7-2-09 - Published: 7-27-072. Sleep of a Ruined Age reviewsFrom the Adventures of Altenglisch Hans Cuxhaven. Alteng seeks out his old off-and-on nemesis, the mystic and sorceror Juin Li, in order to help a friend return from beyond.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,260 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-19-09 - Published: 4-19-093. Forever and Ever, Again reviewsThis is a companion piece to "A Still, Small Voice", and by now the narrator has seen enough to eithr drive him mad, or terribly sane.Complete - Song - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 613 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-26-09 - Published: 3-26-094. Scenes from a NearForgotten Grave reviewsBased on a story my girlfriend may not have written yet, but its coming someday. A sad one about visiting the grave of the wife who died in childbirth, and the husband largely blamed himself for wanting a large family.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 751 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-27-09 - Published: 2-27-095. To Walk in Eternity reviewsThis is more free-form, with no annoying beats to count and very little rhyming. And no, it's not about vampires either.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 782 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-16-09 - Published: 1-16-096. The Final Words of Comfort reviewsYou can cheat death but still not beat him.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 594 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-6-09 - Published: 1-6-097. Ready or Not, Here I Die reviewsA poltergeist-type story, partially inspired by "The Changeling" starring George C. Scott, and also from some other stories heard through the years. Really though, why would anybody want to haunt this rotten world anyway?Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 641 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-30-08 - Published: 8-30-088. The Passenger reviewsI was very depressed when I wrote this because I'm about to turn forty, but if you stick around long enough it will happen to you too, so I guess now I don't feel so bad after all. Just step up and take a ride, its free, and it only happens once...Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 373 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-21-08 - Published: 6-21-089. The Product of the Company We Keep reviewsDo you buy into whatever comes along without kicking the tired?Complete - Politics - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 347 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-30-08 - Published: 5-30-0810. Into the Sunset reviewsIt happens to the best of us, and the worst, the end.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 582 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-15-08 - Published: 5-15-0811. The Laughing God » reviewsAlteng and friends race against their enemies to be first to discover the truth behind legends of an ancient weapon of mass destruction, which has been twisted into a religious cult in nineteenth century Ecuador.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 6,136 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-25-08 - Published: 2-3-0812. Midnight at the Crossroads » reviewsFrom the Adventures of Alteng Cuxhaven. After World War Two, Alteng must once again meet with the goddess Dolora of the Whispering Eyes, with her offer of redeeming himself in the eyes of his god, and also to bring back to life his dead wife, Narrinda.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 3 - Words: 8,403 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-12-08 - Published: 8-11-0713. The Path More Traveled reviewsOriginally written to be inserted into a chapter of one of my girlfriend's other stories she wanted a drinking song, it was rejected for being too serious, so here it is for you instead.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 305 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-8-07 - Published: 12-8-0714. The House of Empty Air reviewsFrom the further adventures of Alteng Cuxhaven. Alteng and Narrinda attempt to rescue a girl from an old ancestral home with a vengeful spirit.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,583 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-14-07 - Published: 10-14-0715. The Black Pharaoh » reviewsPart of the further adventures of Alteng Cuxhaven, more of which will come later. Alteng faces an ancient being known as the Black Pharaoh and his minions in order to help an oppressed people, find a cure for his cursed wife, and get filthy rich too!Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 8,956 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-29-07 - Published: 5-20-0716. The Dancing Girl's Tale reviewsAbout a woman whose life has gone wrong, but she's given a second chance by the only man who ever really loved her and has been trying to find out whatever happened to her. This could be read in a more spiritual sense, as a sinner redeemed before the endComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 366 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-28-07 - Published: 7-28-0717. The Phoenix That Fell reviewsAbout a long but unstable relationship that keeps rising from the ashes, but not forever.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-20-06 - Published: 12-20-0618. A Whole, Greater Than The Sum reviewsA poetic ode to a fictional antihero of my girlfriend's creation, he desires to be good but the fates often work against him.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 420 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-29-06 - Published: 10-29-0619. The Sinner's Psalm reviewsMy humble attempt to evoke the same feelings of enlightenment through spiritual cataclysm as first realized by the most under-rated rock band in history, the mighty Trouble.Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 298 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-26-06 - Published: 6-26-0620. All My Nothing reviewsA quirky, moody piece about those times when it seems life passed you by though you tried to stay ahead.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-18-06 - Published: 5-18-0621. An Ancient Plague » reviewsA germ-seed for a storyline that I am only vaguely steering through. Let me know where you would like it to go from here.Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,743 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-11-04 - Published: 12-6-0422. Spirit of the Season reviewsFailed romance told from a suicide victim's point of view. For a cheerful time of year.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 227 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-10-04 - Published: 12-10-0423. Daydream reviewsSorry I've been away for a while. More to come soon. Anyway, this one's short & sweet, about an ill man tired of feeling pain, wanting release.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-28-04 - Published: 8-28-0424. A Still, Small Voice reviewsThis has Lovecraftian overtones, and I was thinking about Vincent Price's "Haunted Palace", a little E. A. Poe, and Blue Oyster Cult's "Imaginos". Beware.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,278 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-12-04 - Published: 4-12-0425. Sonnet The Lover's Pledge reviewsYeah I know, sentimental, syruppy, and sappy- but hey, its that time of year you know. And besides, my next work will probably be horror anyway, so I'll get it all out now!Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-2-04 - Published: 2-2-0426. Requiem for a Suicide Genius reviewsThe paths of life often intertwine upon each other, but we all face death alone, even in a crowd.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 209 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-29-04 - Published: 1-29-0427. Code Pi Assimilate reviewsIt looks like jibberish at first, but there's a method to the madness (beat structure was based on the mathematical constant "Pi). A poem about someone forgetting their humanity in favor of coldly analyzing life like a crossword puzzle, instead of seeingLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-29-04 - Published: 1-29-0428. In None We Trust reviewsA battle hymn for all you who've felt the bite of betrayal. Why do we always remember the biggest losers in our lives, anyway?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 331 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-27-04 - Published: 1-27-0429. Crusade reviewsDunno, written in '99 (I think), after an all-night Heavy Metal binge of Manowar, Blind Guardian, & Yngwie Malmsteen cds. Makes you wanna go downtown and beat up a few muggers, eh? P.S.- Musicians, add solos after second stanza!Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 212 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-25-04 - Published: 1-25-0430. Slave to my Secrets reviewsDedicated to all those soulmates who found each other but built barriers instead of overcoming them.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-25-04 - Published: 1-25-0431. Tomb of the UnknownThis one is (purposely) not as beat-structured, very earthy and rough. Written in '97, after a divorce and a move.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 274 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-25-04 - Published: 1-25-0432. Upon Her Arrival reviewsWritten when I was 13, for the first one to stir me. Girls, don't you wish all men talked like this?Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 238 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-24-04 - Published: 1-24-0433. Ode to Madness for HPLOut of apocalyptic ruin comes something that should have died long ago.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 254 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-22-04 - Published: 1-22-0434. The Media Lies reviewsFor those disillusioned with different speeches falling out of the same big mouth.Politics - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 313 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-18-04 - Published: 1-18-0435. One Man's Eden is Another's reviewsA man recovers from mental illness but finds the world changed for the worse.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 245 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-11-04 - Published: 1-11-0436. Little Wings reviewsWritten in '92, after the death of a small child.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-11-04 - Published: 1-11-0437. The Calling reviewsPsychological study of a transplanted soulGeneral - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 262 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-11-04 - Published: 1-11-04
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