I'm Alys.

And I write way too much.

(But for personal reasons. I write only for myself. To remember moments, to express pent-up emotions.)

If you don't know me personally, most of my stuff will make absolutely no sense to you...
But...that's okay.

=D

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1. Letters to Troy » reviews

Even a love that's rooted in Christ retains its humanity. However unrequited, complicated, or carefully concealed that love may be, nothing seems to stop it from growing.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 40 - Words: 17,457 - Reviews: 31 - Updated: 10-23-08 - Published: 5-19-05

2. Grounded reviews

I wish the rink was open later.

Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Friendship/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-8-08 - Published: 4-8-08

3. Us College Kids reviews

I still live in her shadow, base myself on who she is. I probably always will.

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,285 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-25-08 - Published: 3-25-08

4. Home Movies reviews

No one knows the secrets that make people who they are.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,259 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-20-08 - Published: 1-20-08

5. remnants of my sister reviews

It's funny what you miss.

Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 59 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-11-07 - Published: 10-11-07

6. sunday reviews

In a black head scarf and long sleeves, I experience God...

Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-11-07 - Published: 10-11-07

7. Pastries on the Counter reviews

I'm thankful for the sun and the sky and the lake at my grandmother's house.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,190 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-15-07 - Published: 5-15-07

8. October » reviews

A month can change a lifetime.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 5 - Words: 4,735 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-11-07 - Published: 1-8-07

9. tickle reviews

So it turns out, despite popular belief, that I AM ticklish.

Complete - Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 4-17-07 - Published: 4-17-07

10. Sonnets » reviews

Life in slivers with 14 lines, rigid rhyme scheme, and iambic pentameter. Yay!

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 3 - Words: 337 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-17-07 - Published: 3-1-07

11. Take Me Instead reviews

I couldn’t help her. All I could do was rub her leg through her brown pajama pants and hope the teensy ounce of pleasure would do something to distract her from her gallons of pain.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,366 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-29-07 - Published: 1-29-07

12. Wake Up reviews

I dreamt you said you were ready to tell them.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-16-07 - Published: 1-16-07

13. For Trevor reviews

Whom I love.

Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-8-07 - Published: 1-8-07

14. Seventeen reviews

What I'm thinking is, I don't know what I'm thinking. But my body does exactly what it wants to.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,309 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-20-06 - Published: 11-20-06

15. Freedom reviews

The four of us had probably lost our minds. We'd been saying we were going to go skinnydipping on the last night we were there. And we did.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,244 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-20-06 - Published: 11-20-06

16. The Tragedy of English Class reviews

Really...it is.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-2-06 - Published: 5-2-06

17. Joe reviews

It's not til the morning that I cry.

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-2-06 - Published: 5-2-06

18. Dances with Olivia reviews

I feel a pang of guilt at the conspicuity of her sadness and her smallness in this room. I never should have brought her. Olivia should never look this lost.

Complete - Spiritual - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,008 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-28-06 - Published: 2-28-06

19. The Truth reviews

A spiritual spinoff of Bette Midler's The Rose.

Complete - Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-1-06 - Published: 2-1-06

20. Heart of Worship reviews

See what I have done for you, He whispers. See, My child, open your eyes...I love you.

Complete - Spiritual - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,522 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-1-06 - Published: 2-1-06

21. Writing Jesus reviews

A prayer, and a personal testimony.

Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 684 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-13-05 - Published: 8-13-05

22. On Singing with My First Band reviews

I wonder if maybe, when you first stood with instruments plodding into being around you, your voice sounded anything like mine.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 233 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-13-05 - Published: 8-13-05

23. Florida reviews

The sky seems bigger here. Always blue, I could reach up and touch it like the clouds are made of cotton candy: hanging, limp, gobbed.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 824 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-12-05 - Published: 8-12-05

24. Lissa reviews

Death leaves us unanswered questions, but suicide leaves us unanswered prayers.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-19-05 - Published: 5-19-05

25. tell the doctor

The things we will do to be heard...

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 562 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-19-05 - Published: 5-19-05