I'm Kisei, go figure. I have about a zillion other nicknames, but that's the one that matters here. I'm a nineteen-year-old female and a freshman at the University of New Mexico; I'm also a waitress at Sushi-Hama. I love to write and draw and read and look at art. I also love bread, but that's irrelevant.

Please review! I welcome compliments and constructive criticism freely, whether you liked it or not. I want to know what you honestly think, not what you think I want to hear. The only comments I don't want are flames. They burn everything I've made to the ground, and then I have to start over again. It's extremely frustrating. And review everything you read, regardless of who wrote it or what you thought of it. If the writer can't take a little criticism, then you can simply feel superior because you're a better person and took the time to try and help the ungrateful git. I try to review everyone who reviews me, but I don't always realize it when I miss someone. You're welcome to let me know if you really care all that much, and I'll go ahead and try. Though I tend to lack the initiative and/or dedication to read something long.

I consider everything here a work in progress; I just list some of them as complete so you know I don't intent to write subsequent chapters or add a great deal to the story. So I would love to hear from you on anything and everything you think I can do to make my writing better.

I guess my recommended reading would be: "Black Snow," "Human," "Bone-White," "Video Games and Violence: Mario Made Me Do It," "Frankenstein Prison Experiment," and "iSermon." The first three are poems, the next two are essays, and the last is a satire. So I guess go for whichever you'd like best. :)

You can also visit my Fanfiction.net account if you so desire. And, uh, read "Glass," please?

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1. The Forgotten of Nihrathi » reviews

This is not a story of heroes: Nihrathi holds no heroes. This is not a story of love: Nihrathi knows no love. This is not a story of hope: Nihrathi lost all hope. This is the story of Saker, who alone can return all that Nihrathi has forgotten.

Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 2 - Words: 6,033 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-12-08 - Published: 7-27-08

2. I Want to See You Smile reviews

I want to see you smile, and I want to see you laugh.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-27-08 - Published: 7-27-08

3. Captive

A soft reminder at your ear, an escape from the vulgarity of a Gun.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-21-08 - Published: 7-21-08

4. The Door reviews

First thing, I ran to the door. On the way, I considered opening it to see what waited on the other side, but I decided it was too dangerous. I could look out from my window. So instead, I turned the lock.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 296 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-26-08 - Published: 4-26-08

5. Power reviews

Power was not something Nic was accustomed to, but that didn’t matter, not at all.

Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 575 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-21-08 - Published: 4-21-08

6. Frankenstein Prison Experiment

What makes a villain? This essay examines Marry Shelley's Frankenstein and the Stanford Prison Experiment to explain it.

Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,607 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-2-07 - Published: 12-2-07

7. Pursuit of Immortality reviews

Essay on human life, death, and inability to be something more.

Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,570 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-12-07 - Published: 10-12-07

8. Charcoal Wings reviews

Her unmarked page hid even from skillful Pegasus’ bright eyes the drawing it was fated to hold.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 335 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-1-07 - Published: 10-1-07

9. The Dearly Departed reviews

…lie rotting in boxes six feet beneath hardpacked earth and a mocking layer of grass.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-23-07 - Published: 9-23-07

10. Bone White reviews

He reaches for my ankles with bone white fingers and a calm, toothy smile.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-4-07 - Published: 9-4-07

11. Fear reviews

Mountains of stone weigh on my shoulders, not of responsibly and what I know I must do, but of what I can’t, of fear.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 287 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-17-07 - Published: 8-17-07

12. Black Snow reviews

I remember the first time it happened. My children hid in the house and stared, fear shining brightly in their youthful eyes, from behind the purple window curtains, while they took great gulps of hot chocolate and burned their throats in haste.

Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 291 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-6-07 - Published: 8-6-07

13. Innocence reviews

Innocence sprouted in brilliant wings from our backs it has faded now, but I remember its shining days before we shattered our souls to create room for adulthood

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 238 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-6-07 - Published: 8-6-07

14. Bucket reviews

Between the blades of a broken fan, the cracked ceiling leaks fat droplets to the floor, deepening the maroon of carpet where it lands. The cook brings a bright green bucket, squarish, plastic, and ugly, to catch the water as it falls.

Complete - Work - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 236 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-1-07 - Published: 8-1-07

15. Ugly reviews

Giddy children run through rays of sunlight and puffs of grass as I watch, hidden behind musty curtains, green like vomit. I remember once, long ago, I ran through shards of laughing friendship.

Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 360 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-1-07 - Published: 8-1-07

16. freezing reviews

when the cold sets in...

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-1-07 - Published: 8-1-07

17. I saw him die reviews

Waiting, near yet apart, at the crosswalk. A few cautious feet separated us, strangers, while pavement and waiting connected us, stranger still.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 163 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-31-07 - Published: 7-31-07

18. Waiting reviews

He said he’d call when he went on break, after noon, so I’d be awake. It’s after two now I’m still waiting.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 217 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-31-07 - Published: 7-31-07

19. Human reviews

Blood pours from the sky, staining every soul bound to this sunless field of murder.

Complete - War - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-31-07 - Published: 7-31-07

20. Video Games and Violence: Mario Made Me Do It reviews

A research paper on the effect of video games on the violent nature of society, or lack there of.

Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,562 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-30-07 - Published: 7-30-07

21. iSermon reviews

A satire on religion and technology. If you'll be offended, don't bother looking at it. It's meant for humor, not to insult anyone. It's an Apple centric parody of a sermon.

Complete - Humor - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 604 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-26-07 - Published: 7-26-07

22. My Hands reviews

I don’t have pretty hands. my palms resemble lumpy squares, squashed and deformed into flesh.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-26-07 - Published: 7-26-07

23. Haunting Memory reviews

I’ve shattered my soul, torn it to shreds like you did my heart. I'm broken entirely now.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-26-07 - Published: 7-26-07

24. Found reviews

The stories say the ring is beautiful, and that any who looks upon it will be destroyed by lust for it.

Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,369 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-25-07 - Published: 7-25-07

25. Final Victory reviews

I raise my heavy fist, the tattered crimson cloth clutched tight in my bloody and bandaged fingers. Cheers fill the air to bursting and carry the men to heaven on the greatest and simplest high: victory.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 453 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-25-07 - Published: 7-25-07

26. The World Beyond My Own reviews

I reach above me, desperately, to grasp a world brighter than my own.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-22-07 - Published: 7-22-07

27. Never Ending reviews

I’ll never tell You’ll never know. My thoughts, my thoughts, I’ll never show.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-22-07 - Published: 7-22-07

28. Leaf reviews

The leaves fell brittle to the ground, in red, orange, yellow, and brown.

Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-22-07 - Published: 7-22-07

29. His Own Hand

They reach for sunlight, but it burns. Blind to their blight, they refuse to learn.

Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-22-07 - Published: 7-22-07

30. The Star Fell reviews

The star fell, and the wing snapped. I clung to shattered shards of glass, my life.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-21-07 - Published: 7-21-07

31. Pennies reviews

It tastes like a penny, metallic and dirty.

Complete - Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 531 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-21-07 - Published: 7-21-07

32. Silence

I’m no good with words. When I need to use them: I avoid it, or I say “I don’t know,” But most often, I say nothing.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-14-07 - Published: 6-14-07

33. Reflection

Crying, sighing, am I dieing? Defeat has finally come. Lying, trying, now I’m flying, and my body has gone numb.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-14-07 - Published: 6-14-07

34. Fire reviews

The hunger I feel can never cease. The unquenchable thirst will never leave. Searching, tearing, finding, stealing Make it all go away.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-14-07 - Published: 6-14-07

35. Escape

Die, all of you, with your life spans and searches for intelligence and expectations that there are answers out there somewhere.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-14-07 - Published: 6-14-07

36. Shadow reviews

I see the bloody shadow, spreading in a pool, beautiful and terrible.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-14-07 - Published: 6-14-07

37. Lonliness reviews

Wandering, lost, throughout this world the pain of loneliness unfurled.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-14-07 - Published: 6-14-07

38. Death reviews

It stalks us, its pace never slowing.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-14-07 - Published: 6-14-07

39. Above All reviews

Raging, raging waterfall, sitting, sitting above all.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-14-07 - Published: 6-14-07

40. The River reviews

As I rummage through my books and things, I realize they aren’t really mine. Listening to the melody the wind always sings, I look around, seeking a sign.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-2-04 - Published: 6-2-04

41. Ghost reviews

Soft, melancholy notes drift through the slightly cracked door and waft through the open window to float away on the breeze.

Complete - Supernatural - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 286 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-6-04 - Published: 3-6-04