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Author has written 51 stories for Nature, General, Song, Life, Humor, General, Fantasy, Mythology, Essay, and Fantasy. Stuff to know about me: I'm an animation student, still learning. I hope to work at Pixar, or at Disney as it was (back in the days of Beauty and the Beast) and might be again someday. I take (quality) kid's books seriously. To me, Lois Lowry is every bit as deep as Kurt Vonnegut, Kate DiCamillo is on equal footing with Willa Cather, and Roald Dahl trumps them all! I'm an enormous dork (I read the dictionary for fun, I can quote Disney's Hercules word for word from start to finish, I can play "This is Halloween" from The Nightmare Before Christmas... on the pennywhistle.) I lived in Florence, Italy for a semester, studying art. Thanks to my Irish ancestry I'm the pastiest person alive, I'm constantly singing (usually about the sea), and I believe I may have some mermaid blood in me. If I had two weeks' free time (which, apparently, I won't until I'm 65) I'd train to be a sailor aboard of the Lady Washington (a beautiful wooden recreation of a 1750's ship. She appeared as the Interceptor in Pirates of the Caribbean.) The captain let me serve as a deck hand aboard of her a little while back, and now I'm hooked! My favorite place in the world is Conway Castle in Wales. My favorite poets are Edna St. Vincent Millay and William Blake. My favorite living authors are Ray Bradbury, Geraldine McCaughrean, and Margaret Atwood. My favorite living-impaired authors are Roald Dahl, Edgar Allan Poe, and John Steinbeck. My favorite book is The Little Prince. My favorite phrase for turning down a guy I don't want to date is "I'm sorry, I'm married to the sea." | |||||||
1. Blue reviewsA mermaid story for the modern age. Man's response to the fantastic has become self serving and sterile. Two young people challenge that. The story unfolds from the mermaid's point of view.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,741 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-16-07 - Published: 7-16-072. I Got Me Some Book Learnin! » reviewsJust in case you ever have a hankering to read a bunch of my college essays... here you go. Included are essays ranging from a light, fluffy response to a local book fair to an in-depth analysis of the usage of nudity in art.Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 8 - Words: 10,865 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-28-05 - Published: 8-15-043. The Flying Lady reviewsAll discontented people wish to fly away. Here's one who nearly does. Based upon the painting "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere" by Edouard Manet.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 611 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-27-05 - Published: 2-27-054. When I was an Indian Princess reviewsMy father was dressed as a vaudville magician, and I ran about shouting in a tatty black Halloween wig. Reflections upon my politically-incorrect childhood.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 557 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-26-05 - Published: 2-26-055. The Star Maiden reviewsFalling stars showered the sky on the night Celeste was born. To learn the identity of her mysterious lover and to discover her origins, the maiden must answer the Serpent's Riddle, posed to her by The King With No Name. This tale begins with "once upon aFantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,504 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-9-05 - Published: 2-9-056. To the Surprise reviewsAfter two months living in a new town, I've finally found a place where I feel at home: onboard the re-created ship that became the HMS Surprise inGeneral - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-13-04 - Published: 12-13-047. Self Portrait as an Insomniac reviewsAh, five a.m. and writing!General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-12-04 - Published: 12-12-048. The Dissenter reviewsAn unlikely rebel defies the reign of Winter.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-10-04 - Published: 12-10-049. The Navigator Set Adrift reviewsA little seafaring sonnet inspired by my going off to a school I don't particularly feel at home in, as well as my general obsession with my future. This - being my first new poem in a goodish while - is dedicated to Manuel Fajar, who gently nags me to wrLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-28-04 - Published: 11-28-0410. Matinee Picture Show reviewsBoy, how to summarize this one? Film as allegory, I suppose. Anyway, it's the first poem I've posted in a good long while.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-16-04 - Published: 10-16-0411. Altoids reviewsOh, lonliness and Altoids are a dangerous mix!General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-1-04 - Published: 9-1-0412. A Toast to My Generation reviewsRight now I'm a little frustrated with my generation as a whole. This may be the only "angsty" poem you ever get out of me.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 8-24-04 - Published: 8-24-0413. Tuesday's Shoes reviewsOh yeah, this song's from a good three or four years ago. I think it was my venture into the alternative rock realm.Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-24-04 - Published: 8-24-0414. East of the Sun, West of the Moon reviewsLoosely based upon the fairy tale of the same name (with elements of "The Enchanted Pig" tossed in to round it out.)Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 8-22-04 - Published: 8-22-0415. The Red Lantern reviewsA woman recounts a life-altering sea voyage. It's sort of Joseph Conrad meets Amy Tan in style and tone. Be forewarned, it does address rape, but in a fairly non-graphic way.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,381 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-21-04 - Published: 8-21-0416. Words That Rhyme With Duck reviewsIt's exactly what the title says it is.Humor - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 8-21-04 - Published: 8-21-0417. Loom reviewsWeaving as an allegory. Partially inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver."General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-20-04 - Published: 8-20-0418. Summer Vision reviewsI wrote this with a Magnetic Poetry kit when I was fourteen, so it's gotta be good... right?General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-18-04 - Published: 8-18-0419. Rapunzel, Rapunzel reviewsMy take on the Rapunzel story, as it applies to dealing with the trials of this world.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-16-04 - Published: 8-16-0420. Composed Upon the Sky's Edge reviewsYou should have seen the mountains that day... and the sky...Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-16-04 - Published: 8-16-0421. Wild Honey reviewsFour lines contemplating the nature of words.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 8-16-04 - Published: 8-16-0422. Insensitive reviewsA tip o' my hat to that wonderfully witty poet, Shel Silverstien.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-10-04 - Published: 8-10-0423. Wit reviewsTaking a common maxim too literally.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-10-04 - Published: 8-10-0424. High Shelf reviewsMaybe it's about pleading for inspiration from an aloof muse, or maybe I just couldn't reach a jar of pickled yams on a really high shelf. You'll have to read on to find out which it is.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-10-04 - Published: 8-10-0425. Narcissus Revisited reviewsMy second take on the myth of Echo and Narcissus, this time seen through the eyes of Narcissus.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-9-04 - Published: 8-9-0426. Wandering Man reviews"There, in the silt of sundry dusk // A form raised from the road..."General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-8-04 - Published: 8-8-0427. Dagger reviewsIt sounds angsty... but is it?General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Parody/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 8-7-04 - Published: 8-7-0428. The Bright Morning Star reviewsA psuedo-Victorian "come back home" song.Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-7-04 - Published: 8-7-0429. Aeroplanes reviewsA free verse poem that sprang from my odd little brain after a visit to the Air and Space Museum in DC. Either it's funny or I'm really tired - can't tell which.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-7-04 - Published: 8-7-0430. Ode to a Ship Seen at Night reviewsIt is - as the title implies - an ode to a ship seen at night (except that I didn't actually see the ship... I made it up... my world is a web of lies)General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-6-04 - Published: 8-6-0431. Well Near Drowned reviewsHalf rooted in truth, half in fantasy, this is my early memory of the sea. (No, that wasn't intended to rhyme.)General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-5-04 - Published: 8-5-0432. Poem for an Abandoned Sculpture reviewsI left a much-loved sculpture on the steps of Brunelleschi's Foundling Hospital in Florence, Italy. This poem was attatched to it.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 299 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-5-04 - Published: 8-5-0433. Song of a WouldBe Sailor reviewsI have lived inland too long.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-5-04 - Published: 8-5-0434. Daughter of the Sea, Daughter of the Air » reviewsA creative re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid". With the romantic elements downplayed, this version of the story becomes the mermaid's quest to gain a soul, and to escape her cruel and jealous mother: the Sea.Mythology - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,570 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-25-04 - Published: 5-19-0435. The Ballad of Sean Doherty reviewsA ballad in the Celtic style, wherein a young man is lured away by the sea.Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 282 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-7-04 - Published: 5-7-0436. You Knew Me reviewsThis is the only "Christian" song I've written that I think is successful.Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-1-04 - Published: 5-1-0437. Bhanavar the Fair reviewsNow finished! Very much rooted in the "Once upon a time" tradition, and faintly reminiscent of Tennyson's "Lady of Shallot", this poem tells the story of a woman whose happiness was destroyed by her own avarice.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 461 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-27-04 - Published: 4-27-0438. A Snarky Little Poem reviewsAs the title implies, it is a snarky little poem. My muse: boredom. My creative language: flippancy. The result: sheer genius, and by "sheer genius" I mean "total crap".Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-9-04 - Published: 4-9-0439. The Light and the Dark reviewsAn odd, dark little scene. Read into it what you will.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 640 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-24-04 - Published: 3-24-0440. House by the Stream reviewsA song about childhood and memories and all that cheesy stuff.Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 212 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-9-04 - Published: 2-9-0441. After the Snow reviewsIf I was popular enough to be a one-hit wonder, this would've been my one hit. People kept asking me to "play that 'snow' song"; so here it is for anyone who'd like to read it.Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-6-04 - Published: 2-6-0442. Streetlights reviewsThe smallest differences can seem monumental when one is away from home.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-5-04 - Published: 2-5-0443. Church Bells in Florence reviewsMy apartment is situated across the street from the Florence cathedral. When the bells began to ring one morning, I began to write. When the bells stopped, I stopped.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-4-04 - Published: 2-4-0444. Flying Over Manhattan at 4 am reviewsThis is one of my shortest poems, but also, I think, one of the most effective.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-2-04 - Published: 2-2-0445. Snake reviewsJust a silly little poem about a snake.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-29-04 - Published: 1-29-0446. Drawing a Blank reviewsWe should remember the names of those who die. This is one time when I couldn't.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 59 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-28-04 - Published: 1-28-0447. The Sailor's Wife reviewsA song in the style of the traditional Irish ballad, complete with sea-side setting and tragic ending!Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-25-04 - Published: 1-25-0448. A Part way Bridge reviewsThis image has stuck with me since I came back from Ireland.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-23-04 - Published: 1-23-0449. Narcissus reviewsThe myth of Echo and Narcissus seen through the eyes of Echo, with particular emphasis on the emotional aspects of the story.Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-21-04 - Published: 1-21-0450. The Shore reviewsA retired sea captain is haunted by the memory of a horrendous shipwreck. Based on the style of Edgar Allen Poe.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 299 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-21-04 - Published: 1-21-0451. The Night Lit by the City reviewsA short poem composed while driving home from the rural countryside.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-19-04 - Published: 1-19-04
