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Author has written 42 stories for General, Humor, Fantasy, Young Adult, Nature, Biography, Horror, Fantasy, Life, Romance, Friendship, General, Humor, Love, Politics, and Family. I'm not really much of a writer. I'm more of an imaginer. My name is Maisha. I'm 20. I'm queer. I'm a student. I hate eggplant and I love organising things. I'm very colourful. I've just returned to the US from traveling around Kenya and Tanzania. | |||||||||
1. Rainfall Hands reviewsyou cannot know what it feels like to have nothing between yourself and beautiful until you've played the piano naked with everything except your fingers. Slam poemComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 573 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-6-09 - Published: 2-6-092. Imani reviewsDeportation is a suitcase made from the wrong colour skin. Slam PoemComplete - Family - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Family/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 711 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-26-09 - Published: 1-26-093. We had our eyes closed and our fingers open reviewsand my tongue was an eraser that made her forget all my mistakesComplete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 239 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-13-08 - Published: 1-13-084. today reviewstoday I'm the symbol on the bathroom door. [Slam Poem]Complete - Politics - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 321 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 3-27-07 - Published: 3-27-075. Wishing in Tunnels reviewsI thought I would die before we emerged into the sunlight. “Did you make a wish?” Kat asked, bouncing in her seat. I smiled. “Yeah. It was a really good one.” [A story about sisters and AIDS]Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,320 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-13-07 - Published: 3-13-076. Spinner reviewsHer sentences came from the residue she scraped from the champagne glass sky, turned upside down over our heads. 'I'm a changeling,' she said.Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 987 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-7-06 - Published: 12-7-067. I awoke with poetry in my mouth reviewsmy soles soldered trees’ tears to the sidewalksComplete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 11-17-06 - Published: 11-17-068. Friction of Resistance reviewsa rainstorm away from a spring. [Abstract poemy proseish thing.]Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 363 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-23-06 - Published: 10-23-069. Parallax reviewsRelentless beat of a frantic paradise, as light bends around them.Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 342 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-30-06 - Published: 9-30-0610. Sky reviewsThis is about the first boy to change my life. [names have been changed.]Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,106 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-27-06 - Published: 8-28-0511. Lang division reviewsit wasn't long before my words were too long for me and I tripped over them.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 253 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 9-12-06 - Published: 9-12-0612. Language is the liquid we're all dissolved in » reviewsHazy words as we evaporated. Nunca es una promesa. [AllEnglish translation posted as Ch 2]Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 497 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 9-10-06 - Published: 9-10-0613. Blue Ceramic reviewsI am becoming more and more like last summer.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-9-06 - Published: 9-9-0614. Underwater Fireworks » reviewsBeautiful things can't last.Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 4 - Words: 3,393 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 8-28-06 - Published: 5-21-0615. Condensations reviewsdramatic in a top hat and hightops, they'll never harmonizeComplete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 251 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 8-4-06 - Published: 8-4-0616. Chris reviewsThere’s a boy who told me life is like a bunch of lemonsComplete - Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 8-3-06 - Published: 8-3-0617. Watermelon Moon reviewsstars are the only frozen things in the skyComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 19 - Updated: 8-3-06 - Published: 8-3-0618. I am Not a Poet reviewsContradictory, concrete, axiomatic. Garbage. The truth but only if you want it to be.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 7-25-06 - Published: 7-25-0619. Clockwork Paradoxes reviewsHe had antimatter eyes that exploded on contact with anything that mattered.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 295 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 7-24-06 - Published: 7-24-0620. Dances of Alchemists reviewsBecause dreams burn the color of illusions.Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 266 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-24-06 - Published: 7-24-0621. Neverdreamer reviewsThe zodiac cavorted with lost poems overhead as the century folded over on itself. A dead child was born from the neverdream blossom. [This is my tribute to everything Nightwish has ever written. It is odd.]Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,539 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-18-06 - Published: 7-18-0622. Aphorism Collision reviewswe're rewriting ADD: Abstract Daydreaming DisorderComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 300 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-6-06 - Published: 7-6-0623. Place Your Bet reviewsLady Luck sleeps around and drowns her victims [Slam...ish]Life - Fiction Rated: M - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 260 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-21-06 - Published: 5-21-0624. She Says reviewsremember when we unzipped the sand with sticks that we dragged behind us like summer secrets?Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 347 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 5-15-06 - Published: 5-15-0625. Over Exposure to Biohazard Music reviewsthe radiation causes mutations from overexposure to biohazard music. Her words are corrosive because she's got a caustic tongue and an excess of hydrogen in her head. [Angry girls are my favourite.]Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 355 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-8-06 - Published: 5-8-0626. Paddling Backwards reviewsA poemstory about a boy as he paddles backwards through memory's waters with his pen as his ship.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 601 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-28-06 - Published: 4-28-0627. Generation Infinity reviewsPraise Coffee, the God of the city. [Slam Poem]Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 325 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-10-06 - Published: 4-10-0628. As If the Sea Could SpeakI could almost hear it. 'Aisling, you've misplaced your skin.' A drop of rain hit my face. The clouds were melting, cold rain dripping down and turning the field to glittering grass. I stood still when it rained. [Selkie story]Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 735 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-7-06 - Published: 4-7-0629. We're Not Listening reviewsThis is for anyone who is annoyed with the narrow, angsty contents of suburban teen poetry. You know... poems that rhyme lie, cry, and die. This is for you. [Slam Poem]Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 17 - Updated: 4-3-06 - Published: 4-3-0630. Jitterbug reviewsLexie is just a caffeinedependent faerie on her way to the Jitterbug coffee shop when her morning is interrupted by a rent in the spacetime continuum. [If you like Artemis Fowl or Faerie Wars this is your thing.]Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,251 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-13-06 - Published: 3-13-0631. Siren reviewsWe met as girls do. Her ocean eyes sang of danger and beauty and chaos. We ran parallel conveyor belts, burning the soles of our feet racing towards the finish line. In our fantasies there was no laughingcryingscreamingthrowing up.Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 705 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-23-06 - Published: 2-23-0632. Crushed Stars & Cigarettes reviewsTwo children in a desolate world pass death between one another on cold winter nights before they're old enough to understand. [This is a scene from a dream I had.]Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 297 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-23-06 - Published: 1-23-0633. Behind the Trash Cans reviewsJust some chunks of my vampire novel that may or may not get written. These scenes are pretty preliminary.Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Horror/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 699 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-7-06 - Published: 1-7-0634. The Path To Infinity and Nothing » reviews3 14yearolds trying to make it through life without really living. Together, they write what they feel in a shared yellow notebook, and learn who they are, and that butterfly lives are beautiful but brief. [OLD & rather annoying piece to me now.]Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 3 - Words: 3,764 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-28-05 - Published: 12-7-0535. Like Dark Chocolate reviewsThe start of another endeavor... will be a modernized, werewolfized version of Beauty & the Beast crossed with Romulus & Remus. Unlikely to ever be finished or really worked on again.Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,103 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-17-05 - Published: 10-17-0536. Eleven reviewsI’ll always be just short of the end and past it at the same time. One cookie less than a dozen, one hour away from midnight. A cent more than a dime, a year after a decade.Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 502 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-26-05 - Published: 6-26-0537. Dreams in Burnt Nets reviewsWho are we, catching all our old dreams in burnt nets, fishing for all the little lost fragments of ourselves? [Really old experiment]Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 504 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-12-05 - Published: 5-12-0538. The Spider reviewsWritten to practice metre and rhyme, this poem turned into something I liked. Lady Spider, in all her deadly elegance.Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-3-05 - Published: 5-3-0539. Hold Still reviewsHe plays with our shoelaces. He ties them together. Mine and his. Black and red. “This is us,” he says. “This is you and me.”Complete - Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 530 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 3-14-05 - Published: 3-14-0540. In the Shiver of a Silvered Moon reviewsREALLY OLD poem... the piece that started my werewolf obsession.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-19-04 - Published: 12-19-0441. Snow Black and the Eight Dwarves reviewsSnow White as a goth? Eight small men named Gerald in a cabin? A rogue dragon that keeps popping up? Suicide attempts? Yes!Complete - Humor - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Parody/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,764 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 11-27-04 - Published: 11-27-04
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