I'm a 22-year old 9th grade English literature and composition teacher.

I'd rather be a critic than a writer.

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1. When I Was Reaching

I caught sight of your gaze smiling into the reflection of my face, and I was unashamed.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-18-08 - Published: 6-18-08

2. The Cost of Redemption »

This is a collection of short stories--really short, like glimpses--with spiritual themes. They are all unrelated to each other.

Spiritual - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 759 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-18-08 - Published: 6-18-08

3. I want to know why

I want to know what it feels like / When the sun goes down and the moon lights upon your face / Your hair shines silver and your eyes / They glow..."

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 231 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-13-08 - Published: 6-13-08

4. Spanning Years and Continents

Thrust into a situation where she must look back on her life up until this point, Lauren comes to the realization that everything has been taken from her slowly over the years until she is left with literally nothing to hold onto.

General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,865 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-5-08 - Published: 5-5-08

5. The Emptiness

It is society; it is religion. It’s in the books you read, scattered across the pages of all the popular papers, tucked shamelessly underneath pillows, painted with a broad brush against the canvas of every children’s story. It is eugenics.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,687 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-30-08 - Published: 4-30-08

6. Morningstar

With each passing moment, the sense of foreboding she’d been feeling for days grew with such intensity that she struggled to wrap her mind around how they were going to survive the fallout.

Complete - Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,122 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-30-08 - Published: 3-30-08

7. C'est La Vie, An Autobiography

For my Advanced Composition class, we were required to write our reading and writing autobiography. Here it is.

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,942 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-17-08 - Published: 2-17-08

8. Untitled

"The rain beats down on the doors that will never open, and before the eyes that do not see. The shaking is uncontrolled and wild...

Spiritual - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 301 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-31-06 - Published: 8-31-06

9. The Wind Whispers Her Name

"...the sunglight casts her last shadow / as it moves across the day... / yet no voices were even heard..."

Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-29-06 - Published: 3-29-06

10. Her Song was Silent reviews

[stream of consciousness] It was just me and her and then she was gone.

General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 499 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-4-05 - Published: 11-4-05

11. Depth reviews

[stream of conciousness] "...and I'm too torn to share this misinterpretation..."

General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-10-05 - Published: 7-10-05