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1. Park that car, dream about me

She will tell all this to some future husband and it will remind him of a scene from a movie. It won't bother him because it'll all seem too far removed to be a threat. That said, she will regret it.

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,000 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-20-09 - Published: 10-20-09

2. The Shadow Summer » reviews

tiny summer thoughts.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 5 - Words: 569 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-2-09 - Published: 9-2-09

3. Memories before they're gone reviews

The town is already a blistered dream on the backs of my eyelids, fragments that flicker past, jerky and disjointed like an old projector film.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 393 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-2-09 - Published: 9-2-09

4. I been downhearted, babe

There's an uneasy feeling creeping up in my blood.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 435 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-2-09 - Published: 9-2-09

5. July wishes reviews

Spend July making wishes, on all the brightest stars and every sip of beer you pretend not to see your father drink. Wish on the times you fall asleep at sunrise and the sound of your grandmother moving down the hallway in the middle of the night.

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 817 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-31-09 - Published: 8-31-09

6. Airport Countries reviews

But airports are temporary by nature, free-floating and without connection, though they connect thousands of people each day: families, lovers, business associates.

Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 760 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-31-09 - Published: 8-31-09

7. two variables reviews

a poem about beer and math.

Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-30-09 - Published: 8-30-09

8. Window

But right now he’s walking down a sidewalk at two in the morning, in the company of drunks and off-duty call girls, wondering if he could compare the sudden crash of Elaine’s laugh to the sound of traffic and get away with it.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,230 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-24-09 - Published: 8-24-09

9. who the hell can see forever? reviews

This kind of blindness is a mercy.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 635 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-1-09 - Published: 8-1-09

10. Other Lamentations for Summer

He sits thinking of Annelore's eyelashes, pale and fine in the morning. Of his brother's hand against his face, wanting to start over. Of all his other lamentations for summer.

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Family/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,776 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-3-09 - Published: 7-3-09

11. Iris reviews

I had missed the feeling of sunlight.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,902 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-2-09 - Published: 7-2-09

12. Chalk reviews

He first sees her from a second-floor window, when she's just a smudge of white against the asphalt. Chalk, he thinks. She doesn't look any more permanent than that.

Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,239 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-1-09 - Published: 7-1-09

13. Murmur reviews

There's a murmur that thumps one pulse behind her heartbeat; when the doctor pauses and the shadow of a frown ghosts across his mouth, she thinks he's heard it.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Suspense/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 963 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-30-09 - Published: 6-30-09

14. Coats reviews

She knows how to be alone, but not how to be alone when other people can see you, and you haven't got any defense.

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 952 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-16-09 - Published: 6-16-09

15. Zoo Languages reviews

It's stunning, how quickly people's use of language devolves when confronted with animals.

Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 714 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-16-09 - Published: 6-16-09

16. The loneliest thing reviews

when you almost mistake the ocean at night for a barren field

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-15-09 - Published: 6-15-09

17. But now am found reviews

Toby found her first.

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,513 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-14-09 - Published: 6-14-09

18. Lostness reviews

I was afraid, for the first time, that I was going to die. Not of hunger or cold or at the hands of sinister people, like we learned about in school. I might vanish, just from sheer lostness.

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,706 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-14-09 - Published: 6-14-09

19. Happy people in old photographs » reviews

pictures, boxes, and hobos.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 3 - Words: 933 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 4-29-09 - Published: 4-29-09

20. swimming pool reviews

There's an abandoned swimming pool two streets down, and we go in through the back door.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 310 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-23-08 - Published: 11-23-08

21. the reluctant vultures » reviews

I am teaching myself honesty

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Poetry - Chapters: 3 - Words: 563 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-23-08 - Published: 2-4-08

22. Laida reviews

Laida stayed with Sam, happy baby of the winos and the canyon bums.

Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 472 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-13-08 - Published: 9-13-08

23. Glance reviews

They were at odds with the gold of your skin, the brown of a freckle constellation on your elbow. They didn’t match you.

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 592 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-13-08 - Published: 9-13-08

24. Francesca reviews

You have to explain how you take ancient houses and imaginary boys and girls with sad eyes- pomegranates and bougainvillea and little kids with stars on their cheekbones- and make them magic. tribute and imitation at once.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 829 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-13-08 - Published: 9-13-08

25. August vignettes » reviews

vignettes written in August. dipped in that end of summer flavor.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 4 - Words: 1,056 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-13-08 - Published: 9-13-08

26. past summers reviews

twelve seasons of heat and ice cream and sprinklers in the front yard. written for the CSSSA program.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 290 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-26-08 - Published: 7-26-08

27. The old house reviews

some of these things are gone, and some of them remain. written for the CSSSA program.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Family/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 280 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-26-08 - Published: 7-26-08

28. my mother's name reviews

Was it your unfamiliarity, at the time, you being a kid with a bike and a crooked nose and the same name as my mother?

Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 298 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-27-08 - Published: 6-27-08

29. Darling, also daring: reviews

Two small blonde girls, sisters or something like it, from the way they stand so close and press their cheeks together.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 497 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-2-08 - Published: 4-2-08

30. pacific coast highway reviews

feeling the sound vibrate in their teeth

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-29-08 - Published: 1-29-08

31. Notes on Camarillian Hotels reviews

Everyone gets caught eventually. [short story, nonfiction]

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 829 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-18-07 - Published: 11-18-07

32. cracklewind reviews

He can still make out the unsteady shape of her mouth.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 310 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 11-18-07 - Published: 11-18-07

33. Russian countryside reviews

the starkness of forever as it stretches through these plains.

Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-20-07 - Published: 9-20-07

34. Natural summer things reviews

The vague sweetness of summer: it felt natural. You felt natural, at the time. [it could turn into a collection, but I'm too afraid to promise you anything.]

Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 608 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-14-07 - Published: 9-14-07

35. All the noise and malice reviews

In the middle of it I noticed all these things. Things like light, and the smell of everything. And remembering her hair, how it felt in my hands, her eyes that solemn jade. [short story, strong T, 9.14.07]

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,031 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-14-07 - Published: 9-14-07

36. Crayola sky reviews

I knew that feeling, the feeling of being punch drunk on the briny salt air, that feeling of looking out toward the horizon and knowing you can never see it all. [rated K, oneshot]

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,547 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-27-07 - Published: 8-27-07

37. Polaroids reviews

I am the one who ended up with these pictures, these seized flecks of time he wanted so much.

Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,658 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-29-07 - Published: 7-29-07

38. Kneeling reviews

ATTN Dr. Larch: There is little to no progress. Case suspended.

Complete - Mystery - Fiction Rated: T - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,846 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-19-07 - Published: 7-19-07

39. bitesized » reviews

bitesized poems for midnight consumption.

Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Mystery/Romance - Chapters: 10 - Words: 221 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 7-19-07 - Published: 6-2-07

40. methusalah reviews

with no words in their mouths

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-2-07 - Published: 7-2-07

41. crayons reviews

she makes friends with the clouds, who know all about color and being young.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-24-07 - Published: 6-24-07

42. Nevada reviews

I wanted to know if he liked the desert, that vast stretch of emptiness and forgetting.

Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Mystery/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,121 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-24-07 - Published: 6-24-07

43. Sisters » reviews

there is Amy, who screams, and Lucy, who doesn't talk. they make up for each other. and here i am, in the middle. [a collection of related vignettes. updated may 11th.]

Mystery - Fiction Rated: T - English - Mystery/Fantasy - Chapters: 4 - Words: 1,591 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-11-07 - Published: 5-11-07

44. fairytale reviews

it really is a simple thing

Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-27-07 - Published: 4-27-07

45. oh delilah reviews

and oh, delilah. what was there left for you?

Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 224 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-27-07 - Published: 4-27-07

46. Whitewash reviews

Imagine a room when you try to sleep. Imagine it empty, white, no color or sound. With your thoughts gone, slumber should not be so hard.' She sounds honest. She says she is.

Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 507 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 3-2-07 - Published: 3-2-07

47. and now, i think i want you: reviews

do you want my story or do you want my truth?

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 659 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-30-07 - Published: 1-30-07

48. lovedusted eyelashes reviews

and i, i am so sorry that THIS is the way you had to say goodbye.

Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 353 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 1-14-07 - Published: 1-14-07

49. Anagrams reviews

Anagrams, darling? she asks, flustered. Anagrams? What are they?

Complete - Mystery - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,231 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-6-07 - Published: 1-6-07

50. Everyone reviews

life isn’t as sad as people would have you believe,' you told me once: you had been peeling an orange with a knife, and it didn’t seem strange at the time.

Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 597 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-1-07 - Published: 1-1-07

51. cornerstore champagne reviews

[the motel's streetlights are dusty and yellow and invading: exposure.]

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 307 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 12-13-06 - Published: 12-13-06

52. sun soaked meadows reviews

[soaked through with sand and sun and water and love]

Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 238 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-11-06 - Published: 12-11-06

53. and we would fall into each other reviews

[with crossed veins and crossed arms]

Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 199 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-10-06 - Published: 12-10-06