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Author has written 46 stories for Life, Romance, Haiku, Friendship, Love, and Humor. I have always loved reading. I could read when I was four and I haven't stopped since, and that's a lot of books! I'd like to be able to write too. I do write ... but I never finish anything and I don't think it's at all original. Hopefully one day I'll find my voice. I live in England and St Kitts and try to travel as much as I can and I have two (no, 3) slowly getting grown-up children. Small selection of favourite authors (in no particular order): Philip Pullman, Ayn Rand, Kipling, Tolstoy, John Fowles, Jane Austen, Juliette Benzoni, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Jodi Picoult, Janet Fitch, Sally Beauman, Ian MacEwen, Robert Heinlein, Hans Christian Anderson (especially 'The Snow Queen'), Alan Coren, Shakespeare ... 'Hamlet' has to be the best ... I'll read anything and everything. I love wit and satire and dark humour. I am quite famous for being verbose. I mean why use one sentence when 3 will do?! No, seriously, I'm doing my utmost not to be, even though it's hard once I get going. I suppose it's partly because I love long books. I like to really get immersed in the story and the characters. I'm the only person you'll ever have met who has read the whole of 'A La Recherche de Temps Perdu' by Proust (what a mission!), 'The Raj Quartet' by Paul Scott (brilliant), the whole of 'The Forsyte Saga' by Goldsworthy, 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth (one of the longest books in the English language), 'Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (long), most of Trollope, Anthony not Joanna (although I've read all hers too!), the 12 books of 'Dance to the Music of Time' by Anthony Powell, and 'Gone with the Wind' of course ... I'll spare you more. I also have an excellent sense of humour and I can laugh at myself. (I need to frequently.) Heh. Favourite poets: W.B Yeats - pure genius, especially 'The Second Coming,'The Cloths of Heaven' and 'The Stolen Child'; if you're interested in poetry, read his poems here: http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/ Also, Keats, E E Cummings, Carol Ann Duffy and Hafiz Shirazi (Sufi Mystic), Khalil Gibran, William Blake, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, John Masefield ... too many. "And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." If you review me, I'll return the favour. | |||||
1. Scary Gibberish RapAnd now for something completely different ..Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: M - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 550 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-082. Cruel WorldA rather pessimistic poem ..Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-083. ChangeChange has to happen all the time, even if we don't want it toComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-084. The VoidA short poem about the black hole feeling of lossComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-085. WordsGhost reviewsMost people will feel like this at some point in their life I think. Wish no-one had to ..Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-086. West Moor Land Night Small Storm reviewsFeeling vulnerable in the nightComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-087. Mainly Haiku in the NightSometimes, in the night .. things seem worse than they really areComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-088. Icebergs or White Horses?Thoughts at high altitude. I love looking down on the world from plane windowsComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-089. Paint MapsInspired while taking photographs of the cracking and peeling paint on the sides of boatsComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-0810. Then What?A short angry poem expressing frustrationComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 38 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-0811. We Are Made Of StarsThinking about where we came from and the meaning of lifeComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 159 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-08 - Published: 8-29-0812. Night Thoughts Feburary 19th 2007 reviewsLetting goComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-27-07 - Published: 9-27-0713. Remembrance DayAnd I hope their sacrifice was worth it, for us, the ungrateful wasters of resources ..Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-8-07 - Published: 2-8-0714. November 4th 6 o' clock reviewslying half awake and war has broken out it seems, cannonades and wraithlike whistlings, and the dull thud of rockets being launched, spinning upwards to break into a thousand starsComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 461 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-4-06 - Published: 11-4-0615. I DREAMED OF TREES reviewsI dreamed of trees, all kinds of trees ...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-7-06 - Published: 9-7-0616. Song of the Bedouin reviewsGive me the open sands, O perfect one, and the endless horizons ..Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 311 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-15-06 - Published: 7-15-0617. FRAGMENTS reviewsAngels and demons jostling for supremacy ... war inside my headLife - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 302 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-19-06 - Published: 3-19-0618. PRISONER reviewsHalf welcoming bondage, at times half needing freedom, I watch and wait ...Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-2-05 - Published: 10-2-0519. MOON reviewsJust ... about memories and things that remind you about what's important in lifeLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-14-05 - Published: 9-14-0520. Milna Cemetery Dawn reviewsBroken glass glitters like pale gren diamonds outside the cemetery gates.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-24-05 - Published: 7-24-0521. FAIRY TALES reviewsDid these dreams come from a lonely childhood, immersed in books with fairy tale endings?Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 210 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-23-05 - Published: 6-23-0522. SOLSTICE reviewsFrom solstice to solstice we stagger onLife - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-21-05 - Published: 6-21-0523. SILENT SCREAM reviewsFor all those who have suffered the difficulty of internet relationships ...Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 199 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-18-05 - Published: 6-18-0524. CHALLENGE reviewsPerfect iambic tetrameter (as long as you pronouce iambic as 2 syllables ... )Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-18-05 - Published: 6-18-0525. Layers of Lies » reviewsA complex web of lies and deception is played out between Tom, Gina, Grace and Sebastian both in England and the Caribbean. Are any of the characters what they seem, or do they each have a secret agenda?Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 12 - Words: 28,393 - Reviews: 92 - Updated: 6-12-05 - Published: 5-9-0526. WAITING reviewsThe longer it goes on ... it gets worseLife - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-11-05 - Published: 6-11-0527. POEM FOR H reviewsWhen trust is eroded, and no new assurance given, what does love mean?Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 213 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-10-05 - Published: 6-10-0528. THE SITUATION reviewsAbout teenagers and parents ... and wanting to be independentLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-9-05 - Published: 6-9-0529. HOMAGE TO TINA reviewsPoetry and music. Bittersweet caress.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 266 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-8-05 - Published: 6-8-0530. TWO WORLDS reviewsOne rat race ...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 465 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-8-05 - Published: 6-8-0531. HAPPINESS reviewsThe books all say, ‘Happiness comes from within’, But what I want to know ... is what gets it in there ...Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 284 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-6-05 - Published: 6-6-0532. OPENING BOXES reviewsWhen you have moved houses, and countries, as many times as I have ... your life ends up in boxes ...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 482 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-2-05 - Published: 6-2-0533. POEM FOR TOM reviewsA poem about losing your first love ...Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-1-05 - Published: 6-1-0534. THE POWER OF WORDS reviewsIs it hard never knowing, as you scan down the page - Vulnerable now to the thoughts of another - Whether today, the power of the words, Will make you dance or make you weep?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 388 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-29-05 - Published: 5-29-0535. Changing Places 2 reviewsAnd I’ve been thinking again, But not saying anything out loud, Of changing lives, changing places ...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 744 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-28-05 - Published: 5-28-0536. CHANGING PLACES reviewsAnd I want to be like my cat, Curled up and secure, Happily returned home from a lonely prison.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-28-05 - Published: 5-28-0537. ALIS VOLAT PROPIIS reviewsWe fight our daily battles with poetry, Not arrows ...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 217 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-27-05 - Published: 5-27-0538. RANDOM NUMBERS? reviewsTotally obscure! Symbolic and unfathomableLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 5-24-05 - Published: 5-24-0539. RITE OF PASSAGE reviewsEnd of year, end of school ... moving onFriendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-24-05 - Published: 5-24-0540. LULLABY reviewsFor all those who are too tired to sleep ...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-23-05 - Published: 5-23-0541. Migration reviewsA poem about the pain of separationLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-18-05 - Published: 5-18-0542. MIRROR reviewsAnother one of those poems that come from nowhere. No, somewhere. Life.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-15-05 - Published: 5-15-0543. OnlineOffline reviewsThis is a story about the dark side of the internet, about all the bad things that you think can happen ... and do happen.Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,013 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-14-05 - Published: 5-14-0544. Blossom reviews3 haiku about blossom, end of winter, spring.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 81 - Updated: 5-12-05 - Published: 5-12-0545. WeatherGirl reviewsToo much rain is bad for the brain. Hey, that rhymes!Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-11-05 - Published: 5-11-0546. Mother's Day 2005 reviewsMothers, Children and Love. A poem from the heart.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 325 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 5-8-05 - Published: 5-8-05
