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since: 11-30-04, id: 446757, Profile Updated: 06-10-08
country: United Arab Emirates
Author has written 40 stories for General, Love, General, Romance, Humor, Fable, War, Family, and Life.

I write from the heart. Whether its fantasy and fiction, or deep felt poetry, everything I write is for a reason, and a different part of me is reflected in each thing I write. Leave a review no matter your feelings on what you've read, for they are all appreciated.

" Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. " - Ambrose Redmoon

Part of my inspiration comes from my job. There was once a time when I hated poetry, and short stories were all that I did. That time has long since past, and I find myself writing more and more poetry as time goes on. Most of my blood family lives in Scotland and Germany, and so my friends are my extended family. Though most of them are back in Vancouver where I grew up, I go back to visit whenever possible, and I'll go back permanently when the time is right.

In case you haven't read anything yet, I have an uncommon trait among men; I'm a romantic. In spite of it all, I have a history of bad romance. Go figure.

I have experienced much love, and much heartache, which provides the greatest number of muses for my writing. But you'll note a few others in there that perhaps do not fit. Ones of inspiration, appreciation, or concern. These are often inspired by my twin brother.

I both write, and read many quotes, as I believe that much like a moment in time, a quote can capture some of the most joyous moments, and greatest wisdom.

"True love is when you come to love someone for who they are, and not who you want them to be; if you can do this, you will come to find that they become who you've always wanted them to be without ever changing." - Myself

Am I a preppy, yes. But unique, of course. Think Rambo with a quill and a bouquet of roses.

"You sleep safe in your beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do you harm." - George Orwell

I hope you enjoy.

Latest News and Updates: After quite some time, I have finally completed "The Innermost Workings of The Average Writer's Mind". Though published sometime ago in a "in progress" state, it now can be truly enjoyed. I'm sure there's still some quirks, as all newly finished projects have, but I'm going to work to fix those too as I find them. If you think there might be a little bit of geek somewhere inside of you, it just might be worth a read.

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1. A Touch of Ginger reviews
Distance can be hard, but as is often said, distance makes the heart grow fonder.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-13-08 - Published: 1-13-08
2. Fallen From Heaven reviews
An alternate version of A Rose from Heaven...but adjusted from a perspective of a life having attained the love you've longed for.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-9-08 - Published: 1-9-08
3. A Birthday Wish reviews
Birthday poem for my Mom
Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-8-08 - Published: 1-8-08
4. Promise Me Forever reviews
Probably not what you're expecting. Free verse and simple, its a simple line of thought that fell into words. Still, I find beauty in its simplicity.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-15-07 - Published: 10-15-07
5. Certain of Uncertainty
An expression of the frustration brought by the unknown and uncertain times in life. A somewhat sad realization
Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 454 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-15-07 - Published: 10-15-07
6. The Best Worst Truth reviews
The title says it all.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-13-07 - Published: 10-13-07
7. Forbidden Fruit reviews
Small and sweet, like most things we aren't supposed to have.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-8-07 - Published: 10-8-07
8. Ode of a Tainted Heart reviews
How I view the inner struggle of someone close in my life.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-8-07 - Published: 10-8-07
9. Daddy's Boys reviews
Inspired by the words spoken at a memorial, by the widow of a fallen officer who was killed in Afghanistan and of how their son sees every man in the uniform as one of Daddy's Boys.
Complete - War - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-8-07 - Published: 10-8-07
10. Until I Disappeared reviews
What its like to be replaced.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-20-07 - Published: 5-20-07
11. Inspiration reviews
A free verse from the heart.
Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-20-07 - Published: 5-20-07
12. The Fallen's Friend
Bringing light to the family we so often forget.
Complete - War - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-20-07 - Published: 5-20-07
13. Climb To Her reviews
The way it would look if you were to look into the mind of a man, trying desperately to win the heart of the woman he loves, and find the courage to confess his love.
Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 217 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-17-07 - Published: 3-17-07
14. My Brother The Giant Killer
To my brother, who has always been there for me.
Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-17-07 - Published: 3-17-07
15. Diamond Eyes reviews
Short and sweet, a poem about how one feels looking into their lover's eyes.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-17-07 - Published: 3-17-07
16. A Rose From Heaven reviews
Thoughts on a beautiful girl just out of reach.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-17-07 - Published: 3-17-07
17. Remembrance Day reviews
A show of the poor shame that many, often the older generations, as much as the younger, offer to an occasion that should be of great reverence, and the lack of appreciation and comprehension of the sacrifices made for their benefits.
Complete - War - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-4-07 - Published: 3-4-07
18. Joe BoJingles
A foolish little poetic story of no real relevance.
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-4-07 - Published: 3-4-07
19. A Soldier Deep In Suffering reviews
A brief glimpse at the internal struggles of a soldier on the field of battle.
Complete - War - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 180 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-4-07 - Published: 3-4-07
20. Kiss reviews
Nothing can be as daunting as wondering.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-24-06 - Published: 12-24-06
21. The Hardest Thing
When you're close to giving up...
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-24-06 - Published: 12-24-06
22. Far Away reviews
Distance between two people can be difficult...
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-24-06 - Published: 12-24-06
23. Give Me A Reason
When a relationship of any kind becomes one sided, things will oft fall apart unless something is done...
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-24-06 - Published: 12-24-06
24. End Game
No description can express the emotion placed within this story.
Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 705 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-3-06 - Published: 8-3-06
25. A First Encounter reviews
Memories of the first meeting of someone very dear to me.
Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 381 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-3-06 - Published: 7-3-06
26. Standing Up reviews
A secret love comes out to protect the one he cares for above all from a adulturous lover.
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 221 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-2-06 - Published: 7-2-06
27. Renewal reviews
The ongoings of a romance between a couple as viewed from an outsider.
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-17-06 - Published: 6-17-06
28. Hard On The Heart, True To The Soul reviews
Doing right, sometimes feels more wrong than it should. But sometimes renewal is too far past...
Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 618 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-9-06 - Published: 5-9-06
29. Little Boby Magee And The Day The Sun Slipped Away
A short story organized into chapters about an overly curious young boy and his adventure to find out what happned to the sun...
Fable - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 809 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-20-05 - Published: 9-20-05
30. The Inermost Workings of the Average Writer's Mind reviews
Here's something for a good laugh... Please enjoy. Ray, this one's for you.
Complete - Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,317 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-9-05 - Published: 2-9-05
31. A Realistic Romantic reviews
When you put all the false promises and impossible hopes aside, this is what you get, this is real romance and real love...
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-3-05 - Published: 2-3-05
32. A Long Night reviews
It tells of the most deciding night in the life of two ex-lovers. I think its a good read, the kind of thing people can relate to, let me know what you think.
Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,274 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-30-05 - Published: 1-30-05
33. To You I've Disappeared reviews
Once he lost her, he felt like to her, he had just disappeared...
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-12-05 - Published: 1-12-05
34. The Last Ride reviews
He hopes for her to realize what she's doing, while she cannot get past the fear in her heart...
Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,311 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-11-05 - Published: 1-11-05
35. I Long For reviews
A poem of what I Long to have back.
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-9-05 - Published: 1-9-05
36. Through Fearful Eyes reviews
A young girl from China realizes the all too often truth about the Land of the Free
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 852 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-6-05 - Published: 1-6-05
37. For a Love to Fail reviews
My love as it slipped away...
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-3-05 - Published: 1-3-05
38. You Don't Know Pain reviews
A short poem of emotinal suffering
Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-3-05 - Published: 1-3-05
39. Love Without Its Mask reviews
What one might find if they looked past the many diceptive layers of a romantic love's falsehood.
Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-26-04 - Published: 12-26-04
40. Dreams of Peaceful Rest
Not much of a poem, but being the first thing I posted, at a time when a pained heart kept me awake most nights, I leave it here none the less.
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-10-04 - Published: 12-10-04
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