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| grim-dreamer |
Author has written 85 stories for Life, War, Religion, Politics, General, Haiku, School, Family, Humor, Love, Nature, Fable, Mystery, Romance, Humor, and Fantasy. Pleased to meet you, and thank you, graciously, in advance, for your curiosity. | |||||||
1. Never Leave reviewsNever leave - I warn you now - the comfort of your own countryPoetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 3-5-062. The Wizard's Candle reviewsHero is on a quest to seek out the "wizard", but a stranger on the way causes him to contemplate on why. A satire of the 'fantasy' genre.Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Parody/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,026 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-17-063. Wooden Heart reviewsA love-sick poem tries to communicate with its reader.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 8-13-054. Manky Carpet reviewsA house-moving experience obsessed with the rank quality of the carpet.Poetry: Humor - Rated: M - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 6-23-055. Consoling Satira reviewsWhy do some of us need things like this : ) and this : ( to understand a satirical response? Isn't your English and punctuation good enough?Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 6-4-056. To His Shy Girlfriend reviewsRomance is sex dressed up. Transposition of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 586 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 5-21-057. Girl with the Flamethrower Hair reviewsMost children have best friends. What they mean by 'best friend' is a person, usually another child, with whom they spend a majority of their time. Sad to say, I never had a 'best friend', though some may argue that I did.Fiction: Mystery - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,018 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-1-058. Schoolboy reviewsSchoolboys are lush - but which ones? The real or the fashioned? Inspired by Robert Herrick's poem 'Delight in Disorder'.Poetry: Humor - Rated: T - English - Parody/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 4-21-059. To Autumn reviewsFive haikus reflecting the nature of one autumn afternoon...Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-20-0510. All My Dandelions Are Dead Mermaids reviewsPortrait of a misogynist. (Third villanelle).Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 15 - Published: 4-9-0511. Documentaries reviewsTell people their mistakes and they're fated to make them anyway. (History Reverse Psychology)Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 4-8-0512. Dinner With The Blacks reviewsFor Andrew Townsend, a simple invitation to dinner turns inexplicably into a nightmare.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Parody/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 429 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-8-0513. Not The Tiger reviewsBleak parody of William Blake's poem.Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 338 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 4-8-0514. The Reason reviewsRespect for someone who decides to kill themselves. (Second villanelle - completely rewritten.)Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-8-0515. Never Dead Yet reviewsEvery film gets this part wrong. (Goes to show money can't buy perfection, hmm.)Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 4-8-0516. Ignored as a Child reviewsSome parents deserve sadness and loneliness in their old age. (Malice prepense.)Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 184 - Reviews: 14 - Published: 3-18-0517. About the Weather reviewsSome of us grow distant from our parents.Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 3-15-0518. Songs for Lady Aspen reviewsA wandering musician dedicates himself to a lady he has only met once.Fiction: Romance - Rated: K - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 625 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-13-0519. The Way of the World reviewsBased on Edgar Gambin's version of 'The Last Supper'. The only thing we're good at is watching - except this one guy, who tells us we'll be fine.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Parody/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 259 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3-12-0520. Smoking is a Pastime reviewsIt's harder to become a smoker than it is to stop smoking.Poetry: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 308 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 3-11-0521. Centertaf reviewsWar memorials just look nice.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-11-0522. Five Ways of Looking at Grass » reviewsGrass is obnoxious.Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 3-10-0523. Admirer reviewsDedicated to the one I love - but who is it? (Is it you)Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 3-9-0524. Mourning Flowers reviewsWritten from the perspective of the fly in Emily Dickinson's 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died'.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 302 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-8-0525. Jessica Wednesday reviewsBased on an article about a 7-year-old girl who is starved by her parents over 5 years. No one knew.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 202 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 3-7-0526. The Mystery of Empty Condoms » reviewsSomething my neighbours - mature university students (supposedly) - posted through my letterbox today.Poetry: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Mystery - Chapters: 2 - Words: 191 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 3-3-0527. Diffident reviewsThoughts can make you ill. Please think before crossing the road.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 3-1-0528. Pornography reviewsWe all get these digital urges - the lads, more so.Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 2-28-0529. Wrongnight Stand reviewsNot all nights end with sexual encounters. You just think they do.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 306 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 2-28-0530. Opportunity reviewsIf it's there, take it.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 2-28-0531. Compliment reviewsA respectful bow to a fellow fictionspress poet (Macca Lane).Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 2-22-0532. Take It With a Pinch of Salt reviewsComment on a recent piece of American research claiming that "marital rowing (is) 'good for wives".Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-22-0533. Robbler reviewsComment on the recent development of the 'Toddler',Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 221 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-20-0534. Portrait of a Young Coward reviewsChoosing to die is easy. Dying is the hard part.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 511 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-18-0535. Amputee reviewsOne-handed philosophy.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-18-0536. Don't reviewsSome people should mind their own business.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 2-11-0537. Train reviewsOne man does not catch the train like everyone else.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 263 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 1-30-0538. Shopping in Basra reviewsWhile people are having it rough in Iraq, what are we doing at home?Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-21-0539. Dream Sequence » reviewsDreams make no sense when you're awake, but the ones you remember are worth it.Fiction: Mystery - Rated: K - English - Mystery/Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 545 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-21-0540. ちかん reviewsWritten in protest against sexual harassment on Japanese trains. Features Japanese sentences.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 178 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 12-13-0441. His Innocence reviewsIMPORTANT: Do not read if you are particularly sensitive.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 12-13-0442. Monday's Child reviewsChristmas parody of Rachel Sturges' 'Monday's Child'. Influenced by Tim Burton's 'Vincent'.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 376 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 12-12-0443. Envying Cats reviewsThe sad truth: talking to a cat about your problems never makes you feel any better.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 12-12-0444. Blue reviewsSympathetic background to the depressed.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-11-0445. MISSING:LOGIC reviewsWhy can't people just get along? And if they can't, why can't they give a good reason?Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 12-1-0446. Scared of Men reviewsThis is open to interpretation.Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 11-25-0447. There must have been sand in the alcohol reviewsA sonnet about someone who gets so drunk she imagines herself to be a palm tree friends with God.Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Humor/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 11-18-0448. I Am A Secret » reviewsWritten for those who are too shy to show themselves to the person they love.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 194 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 11-15-04 - Published: 10-19-0449. The Case of Sir Raphus Cucullatus reviewsIt's time the dodo had his nonsensical revenge!Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-15-0450. Civil War reviewsCritical satire of... whatever you like. (PG for use of the 'D' word.)Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 199 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 11-6-0451. A Portrait of You reviewsSometimes, when you really, really love someone, doing this is going a little too far. (Italian sonnet.)Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Humor/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-29-0452. The Tale of Fingal Gloom » reviewsA story that hasn't been told to a fox before.Fiction: Fable - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 4 - Words: 1,648 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-29-0453. I believe Drinking is an old man's sport reviewsA serious/humorous outlook on drinking in pubs. (English sonnet.)Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-29-04 - Published: 10-28-0454. Musing reviewsI'm certain this train of thought has been caught by more 100% of the thinking population.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-19-0455. the sea at night reviewsHave you ever seen the sea at night?Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-17-0456. You have no right to be happy reviewsYou wake up to a bad day, but the rest of the world doesn't seem to know about it.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 10-17-0457. Commoners reviewsAn indignant (and one-sided) response to the division of social classes by wealth, education – and chiefly - accent.Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-15-0458. Christopher Columbus reviewsBeing attracted to someone would bring harm rather than gratify...Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Mystery/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-8-0459. THIS IS NOT A SUICIDE reviewsFor those who have tried their best to live on.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 10-6-0460. The Door reviewsBeware, toilet graffiti. (Double cinquain.)Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 9-29-0461. The Ballad of Sam O'Grady reviewsA shady character gone doolally?Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 378 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-21-0462. Jealousy reviewsBitter version of the romantic sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ('How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…') aimed at every class' Teacher's Pet.Poetry: School - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 159 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 9-20-0463. Ode to the Goodlooking Lad reviewsBeing good-looking isn't as easy as some people think.Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 9-20-0464. The Quiet Gentleman reviewsAbout a troubled young man.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 551 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 9-19-0465. When I stop ranting reviewsA way to kill the conversation.Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-18-0466. Obvious reviewsA short portfolio of words and phrases that accompany this word.Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-17-0467. Victoria reviewsDoesn't anybody else think that porcelain dolls emanate Evil Intent?Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 9-17-0468. The Phoenix reviewsLife is about living with confidence.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-17-0469. Dear Mother » reviewsWritten for Mothering Sunday 2004.Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 3 - Words: 266 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 9-17-0470. Selfcentred reviewsA satirical prayer in the Confession Box.Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 9-17-0471. 90s Child reviewsInfluenced by an article read in the Daily Mail entitled "Adults act like children and children act like adults." Is it a wonder why the kids aren't alright...?Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 9-16-0472. Smokers reviewsDedicated to smokers.Poetry: School - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 386 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 9-14-0473. They Call The Others 'Heroes' reviewsJust when you think everything's dandy, that little voice starts talking. It tries to make the Way Out sound better than the Way In. It tries to make you give up.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-10-0474. To Andrew Jacob reviewsGood-humoured response to a fellow fictionpress poet's haiku 'I Am Piano'. (Slightly revised.)Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-31-0475. Tea & Coffee reviewsWritten in response to gay marriages. What's the gigantic fuss about? Love is love, isn't it?Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 22 - Published: 7-28-0476. Dear Mr Blair reviewsHe's a man born to be questioned, yet he's born without the answers.Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 245 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-25-0477. Comment on Tony Blair reviewsSatirical verse I once wrote on an envelope I sent to a friend. Mr Blair, poor bloke; doesn't know whether he's coming or going...Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-25-0478. The Great War reviewsA satirical poem inspired by reading WW1 Literature. The only war that truly exists is the one between us and our minds.Poetry: War - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 208 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-25-0479. My life fails to rhyme reviewsDon't you get the feeling that, some days, life is just one huge song you don't know how to sing?Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 7-25-0480. The Astronaut reviewsI wrote this poem after glimpsing an astronaut on a science textbook. I was trying to argue how the exploration of Space spoils someone's belief in (a) god. You go up there and find that you're in a vacuum - a Nowhere - so how can there be (a) god?Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-25-0481. Saviour reviewsA short poem on what it is like to be a Saviour nobody appreciates or recognises.Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 7-25-0482. The Parcel reviewsWritten with inspiration from the conditions of WW1 and the indignation of British soldiers during the War on Terrorism.Poetry: War - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-25-0483. The Parable of the Sun and the Seed reviewsSometimes, parents who mean too well do it too well. This is for the daughters (and sons) out there who think so too.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 723 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-25-0484. The Wind spoke of Nothing reviewsSocial Anxiety (or Social Phobia, as it is also known) is - according to psycholgists and their statistics for the Government and the General Good of the People - supposedly the world's third most common mental illness.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-24-0485. Have you heard what I've said reviewsFor those who have had an experience similar to the person in this poem.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 157 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 7-24-04
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