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since: 01-26-06, id: 510903, Profile edited: 02-27-08
Author has written 133 stories for Life, Love, School, General, Nature, General, Family, Friendship, Fable, Spiritual, Fantasy, and Religion.

"Chemical names, bird names, names of fire
and flight and snow, baby names, paint names,
delicate names like bones in the body,
Rumplestilskin names that are always changing,
names that no one's ever able to figure it out.
Names of spells and names of hexes, names
cursed quietly under the breath, or called out
loudly to fill the yard, calling you inside again,
calling you home. Nicknames and pet names
and baroque French monikers, written in
shorthand, written in longhand, scrawled
illegibly in brown ink on the banks of yellowing
photographs, or embossed on envelopes lined
with gold. Names called out across the water,
names I called you behind your back,
sour and delicious, secret and unrepeatable,
the names of flowers that only open once,
shouted from balconies, shouted from rooftops,
or muffled by pillows, or whispered in sleep,
or caught in the throat like a lump of meat.
I try, I do. I try and try, A happy ending?
Sure enough-- Hello darling, welcome home.
I'll call you darling, hold you tight. We are
not traitors but the lights go out. It's dark.
Sweetheart, is that you? There are no tears,
no pictures of him squarely. A seaside framed
in glass, and boats, those little boats with
sails aflutter, shining lights upon the water,
lights that splinter when they hit the pier.
His voice on tape, his name on the envelope,
the soft sound of a body falling off a bridge
behind you, the body hardly even makes
a sound. . . "
Excerpt, "Saying Your Names," Richard Siken




1. Small Sacrifices reviews
I wish you had returned my anger, even in the same crumpled green envelope, even with a 'postage due' stamp you expected me to pay . . .
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-12-08 - Published: 5-12-08
2. Six Suites for Cello reviews
The notes loop around the years, curving awkward arcs into your arms. You forget to notice your tendons scrounging coins in the gutter. . .
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 209 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-20-08 - Published: 4-20-08
3. Why I Can't Draw Your Eyes reviews
It's the sudden--fleshless-- pucker. . .
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 3-4-08 - Published: 3-4-08
4. Dear Void reviews
I want to be the black hole, the center of a swirling galaxy of good and evil compressing itself into the impossibly opaque bowl of a girl always asking for more. . ."
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 184 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-27-08 - Published: 2-27-08
5. Insomnia reviews
A hundred fragments rattle their cage bars, and I can't sleep for the inspiration.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-17-07 - Published: 4-17-07
6. Murder at 3 am reviews
Why don't bodies ever wait 'til morning?
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-16-07 - Published: 4-16-07
7. The Mythic Lolita reviews
And she fancies herself a young Lolita, awkward elegant and stepping over her supplicants.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 2-17-07 - Published: 2-17-07
8. Weightless reviews
Let's pretend we don't exist beyond our cellophane tissue and the thrumming of our minds...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 2-7-07 - Published: 2-7-07
9. Rooftops reviews
When the world stirred the dust of chasms in his chest, he coughed chords to make the landlord cry...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-31-07 - Published: 1-31-07
10. Parallel Conversation reviews
Our talks aren't knotted together anymore, but free float in a selfabsorbed bubble.
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 1-19-07 - Published: 1-19-07
11. CityWalking reviews
In six nights she was nocturnal, each dawn creasing rougher behind dilated eyes...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-19-07 - Published: 1-19-07
12. Reaching Up And Over reviews
I want a morning, spent in loose change and the pluckedstring closeness of bodies feigning sleep...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-17-07 - Published: 1-17-07
13. The Dangers of Standing Still reviews
You knew you'd settle, or claimed you did, but someday arrived ten minutes too early, and now you're caught unawares in a place you know absolutely everything about.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-16-07 - Published: 1-16-07
14. The Pillow Sea reviews
I asked, once, why she anchored her storms to a fort of child's fantasies. The better to ease my fall from dreams...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-7-07 - Published: 1-7-07
15. A Cold, Cold Night reviews
It's a cold, cold night, without piano notes to warm the air. I wonder, are we still even?
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 1-4-07 - Published: 1-4-07
16. Portents reviews
Only the saltine bones of the old can shaman say when rain will come...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-3-07 - Published: 1-3-07
17. The End Result of Love reviews
Photography as a proclamation of love, never given, never taken.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 1-1-07 - Published: 1-1-07
18. Photoshopping Memories reviews
So easy to smooth the image's edges, blur the lines until there is just a mass of color, clay for the memory's molding...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-29-06 - Published: 12-29-06
19. The Anniversary of a Death reviews
It's been a long time since you've been gone, and for 364 other days I can convince myself the time has lapsed and folded neatly, but there's always that one day when the wound reopens, fresh and salty all at once.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-29-06 - Published: 12-29-06
20. Resolution reviews
The city gorges and reflects, until the bulimia of culture spits him out into some unknown country, where the beads and baubles of what he had before are worth less than a cigarette from Al's Superette, guaranteed lowest prices anywhere
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 173 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-10-06 - Published: 12-10-06
21. Mirage reviews
I paid my dues to despair in synonyms and slow installments...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-8-06 - Published: 12-8-06
22. Gaelic reviews
And she found herself writing the date in an older language, dulled by the waves of different years and different tongues...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 10-28-06 - Published: 10-28-06
23. Waxing Night reviews
Lead puddles in arteries and veins, but I'm not tired, you say, I'm not tired
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-23-06 - Published: 10-23-06
24. Juicyfruit reviews
Your mouth twanged Juicyfruit the way a country boy's banjo sigh still rumbles through city sidewalk cracks.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 10-20-06 - Published: 10-20-06
25. Your Old Sweatshirt reviews
We thought your presence was erased by trashbags and goodwill, but one last breath remained in our home.
Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 10-2-06 - Published: 10-2-06
26. Reading Into It reviews
It's too early to be thinking in symbols, but there are too many metaphors sinking below consciousness for an easy slip into the morning...
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-30-06 - Published: 9-30-06
27. Blackout reviews
Civilization is a word found only in light and surity. The uncertainty of darkness seems to activate the primal mind.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-27-06 - Published: 9-27-06
28. Cheshire Morning reviews
And every time you blink, ten seconds fall like scales from the clock's winding tail rhythm.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-27-06 - Published: 9-27-06
29. Replacement reviews
They took the lead out of pencils, replaced it with the graphite of indecision...
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-27-06 - Published: 9-27-06
30. Small Town Scourge reviews
He's a big city preacher in a small minded town...free love, baby, free love.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-25-06 - Published: 9-25-06
31. Literal reviews
I have a thing for you...
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-15-06 - Published: 9-15-06
32. Possibilities Revisited reviews
She's always been a fighter, drenching each moment in strain and peril, until she found herself in a quagmire of lost time, unsure of what happens next.
Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-15-06 - Published: 9-15-06
33. Soul Carver reviews
He's an artist, a carver of souls...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-15-06 - Published: 9-15-06
34. GoldLeaf Decisions reviews
Wrapped so thinly in some whirlwind dictation, I'm still missing you.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-15-06 - Published: 9-15-06
35. Dreamer reviews
I see these flint eyed dreams of excellence arch over physical restraints and break record times, and know this is not my race to run
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-10-06 - Published: 9-10-06
36. Shadow of a Doubt reviews
...there is a shadow of a doubt./ His name is Robert, and he lounges in her bedroom's corner,/ just behind sure sight.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 166 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-2-06 - Published: 9-2-06
37. No Address, No Taxes reviews
Not made in anyone's image, no no/She's her own product, whipped up in a moment/from the steam of righteous fervor...
Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 9-1-06 - Published: 9-1-06
38. Radio Muse reviews
Ah, the blinding sameness winds a boa of sweaty bodies and jumbled lyrics around your shoulders. The fashion accessory of the century.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-30-06 - Published: 8-30-06
39. Wisteria reviews
You mentioned purple, once, said it was a travesty of grandeur and over-painted whores, but beautiful all the same...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-24-06 - Published: 8-24-06
40. Never Good Enough reviews
Jealousy simmers on the stove of my mind. Such a childish compulsion, but it's there, and calling me.
Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 8-22-06 - Published: 8-22-06
41. Oxygen reviews
Breathing is underrated.
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 8-21-06 - Published: 8-21-06
42. Garden of Deceit reviews
On late nights when I can't sleep for guilt, I still imagine that you're here...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 8-19-06 - Published: 8-19-06
43. Why the Ozone is a Lie reviews
Because August isn't fifty degree weather, my sweaters shrink from the arching sun. And I think
Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 8-13-06 - Published: 8-13-06
44. Blasphemous Blustering reviews
I'm very sorry, Jesus...
Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 219 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-12-06 - Published: 8-12-06
45. The Monsters Under the Bed reviews
Psh, those were tales for children...we're real, and we've found e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.
Fantasy - Fiction Rated: M - English - Humor/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 855 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-12-06 - Published: 8-12-06
46. I Always Loved Your Metaphors reviews
You pulled the Benz over to the road's slumping shoulder, jumping out with both feet...I sighed and stayed where I was, not really surprised. You were always searching for something new or different...
Spiritual - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,037 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-12-06 - Published: 8-12-06
47. Binder Poetry reviews
I built a wall of grounded writings, of things this earth could offer me and never think a thought. But you came on pinpricked wings...
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 8-11-06 - Published: 8-11-06
48. Loss reviews
The tragedy of losing what you never had, but ought to...
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 8-10-06 - Published: 8-10-06
49. You May Call it Pride, But reviews
Those who speak of nature's bounty are not drinking from the same glass as I. Revel in manmade glamour, then rise above and fool them all...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-9-06 - Published: 8-9-06
50. Solitary Classical reviews
The voiceless power of classical music is the perfect backdrop for denial...
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-8-06 - Published: 8-8-06
51. She Made Her Own Way reviews
The rough blue of this suitcase matched the blue of her eyes, but they are both faded, as are their tales. Who could ever love this splintered emptiness?
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 8-7-06 - Published: 8-7-06
52. Nebulaphobia reviews
The fear of fog. . .
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-6-06 - Published: 8-6-06
53. Glossophobia The Fear of Peforming reviews
The fear of performing was running naked and nameless through the forests of your mind until you sequestered it in definition...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-5-06 - Published: 8-5-06
54. A Mutual Disintegration reviews
Your hopes must have fallen into my coffee, for they are stained brown and dripping with sugared disdain.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 157 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-4-06 - Published: 8-4-06
55. So Lovely reviews
She's weaving iridescent falsities around the question that has felled nations.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 8-1-06 - Published: 8-1-06
56. Have You Forgotten? reviews
You stepped off the plane last night, burning with a weathered light, revealing the shadows in my worldly facade.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-30-06 - Published: 7-30-06
57. Reminders reviews
These boxes are sequestered, the better to jumble their speech of change. They whisper of a better chance, and the restless yearn awakens.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-28-06 - Published: 7-28-06
58. Waking Too Early reviews
The silence I was used to has grown dim in nature's early morning rush, and you are not here to quell the tide of sound.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 7-25-06 - Published: 7-25-06
59. Pretend reviews
Where have these fantasies of open waters gone? The romanticism of stormy seas is lost when the waters cease to churn.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 7-23-06 - Published: 7-23-06
60. Going Home reviews
Your words are glass breaking on my ears, and I long for the silence of home...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-18-06 - Published: 7-18-06
61. Modern Ballad reviews
You're nothing like what I've been promised...
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-17-06 - Published: 7-17-06
62. Overcast reviews
The sky is a dull gray, and all that's left are the memories...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-15-06 - Published: 7-15-06
63. Musical Dystrophy reviews
She was such a joyful child, but acquiescence has warped her melody...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 163 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-14-06 - Published: 7-14-06
64. Midsummer Missings reviews
I haven't seen you in much too long, but the feelings refuse to fade into a pleasant, platonic memory...
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 264 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-12-06 - Published: 7-12-06
65. Tester reviews
Vials of perfume speak for the ages, history swelling in their superficial shells...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 7-12-06 - Published: 7-12-06
66. Everlast reviews
Each night spent here is a stepping stone, whether they lead down or up I cannot tell...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 7-11-06 - Published: 7-11-06
67. UrbanLust reviews
There was inspiration in the city, under blinding lights of reality. But here, in this secluded clearing, I feel desolate and dreamless.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 247 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-10-06 - Published: 7-10-06
68. Intercontinental Love reviews
My friend in Pennsylvania has "fallen in love" with her penpal from Australia. You tell me.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 245 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-9-06 - Published: 7-9-06
69. The Disease that is Forgotten reviews
Each memory is precious, though not until it has faded into fog...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-7-06 - Published: 7-7-06
70. Flight reviews
The bones reveal the flaws, but still they push through candied apple skin...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-6-06 - Published: 7-6-06
71. Fray reviews
A whirlwind of noise surrounds them both, in an embryo of chaos
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-6-06 - Published: 7-6-06
72. Girl reviews
Her innocence calls to me, a single note from far in the distance...
Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-28-06 - Published: 6-28-06
73. Hashbrowns with Your Daily Death & Destruction? reviews
Ah, the morning news. Such a lovely way to begin the day- I personally love eating my bacon to the soundtrack of merciless murders and rape. r&r
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-24-06 - Published: 6-24-06
74. Passage reviews
And the pages themselves seem burdened by time...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-21-06 - Published: 6-21-06
75. A Higher Plane reviews
High-strung boys are an addiction of yours...
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-18-06 - Published: 6-18-06
76. The Art of Forgetting reviews
In shedding pieces of your memories, you relinquish particles of your soul...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-16-06 - Published: 6-16-06
77. The Sea Was His Religion reviews
The sea was his true love, and what a fickle lover she is [one shot]...
Fable - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,354 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-16-06 - Published: 6-16-06
78. I Have Yet to Find the Swan reviews
Summer is intended to be a season of tawny brilliance and tawdry tales...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-15-06 - Published: 6-15-06
79. Chorophobia reviews
A fear of dancing...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 182 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-14-06 - Published: 6-14-06
80. Paragon of Permutation reviews
She is a lightning rod for change...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-13-06 - Published: 6-13-06
81. Anablephobia reviews
The fear of looking up...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-12-06 - Published: 6-12-06
82. 18 Grams reviews
Is man solely comprised of gears and pulleys, or is there something more?
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 206 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-11-06 - Published: 6-11-06
83. Morning After reviews
Sometimes she wonders if love's really what she's looking for...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-11-06 - Published: 6-11-06
84. Compassionate Censorship reviews
What is more important: being honest, or being kind?
Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-10-06 - Published: 6-10-06
85. Twilit Sands reviews
"A fuchsia beach/ swimming in twilit stars/ curving under bedrock/ older than God..."
Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 6-10-06 - Published: 6-10-06
86. DreamSpeak reviews
She's standing in a doorway, surveying the chaos she has created...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-9-06 - Published: 6-9-06
87. First Date reviews
Don't you hate being early for first dates? All sorts of terribly weird things run through your head...
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-8-06 - Published: 6-8-06
88. Tiresome Delicacies reviews
How many people do you see every day, but never deign to converse with? Why must they remain strangers, blurs on the sharp landscape of our perspective...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 215 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-7-06 - Published: 6-7-06
89. Clarity reviews
Written after I studied an ode praising a girl's father, and I realized what I must be missing.
Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-5-06 - Published: 6-5-06
90. I Must Have Missed It reviews
I must have missed the part where 16 = adult...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-4-06 - Published: 6-4-06
91. Corporate Deception reviews
Going through a rebellious phase, aren't I? It's about the mindlessness of desk work, and how it can warp your mind to a jelloid mass. Cheerful, I know.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-31-06 - Published: 5-31-06
92. Subjective Remembrance reviews
Found a photo of my ex sitting in a long-forgotten box...I hope it sounds deeper than that...
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-30-06 - Published: 5-30-06
93. Calendar Time reviews
We allow our lives to be corralled into cubicles the size of postage stamps, emblazoned with a 1/365 chance that it will be today...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 227 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-20-06 - Published: 5-20-06
94. Affinity reviews
Ever had a relationship so disappointing you just wish you could find the rewind button? Me too.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 191 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-19-06 - Published: 5-19-06
95. Freshly Laundered WouldHaveBeens reviews
It was so promising, but it was broken in the midst of laundered shirts and dry-cleaned ties.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 242 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-18-06 - Published: 5-18-06
96. And He Bottled Up His Fears reviews
Gives a new meaning to the cliche "bottling up your feelings" [one-shot]
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 796 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-18-06 - Published: 5-18-06
97. End Scene I reviews
About the ending of the first stage of a relationship, and how both people are either idolized or debased at its conclusion. Not sure I like this one...
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-16-06 - Published: 5-16-06
98. Pixie, oh Pixie reviews
Written for a friend, who walks the same block every day, just to get out of her crazy house for a few minutes.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 363 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-16-06 - Published: 5-16-06
99. Facades reviews
A 3 second exchange sparks a thousand questions in her mind, and none in his.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-11-06 - Published: 5-11-06
100. Watercolor Time reviews
Proof that time can always be made, if only something is important enough.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-10-06 - Published: 5-10-06
101. Locked Away in a Jewelry Box reviews
Written after my teacher was describing the Saint Chapel in Paris to my class, and said "it's like being in a giant jewelry box"...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-9-06 - Published: 5-9-06
102. Early Mornings 4:17 AM reviews
Begun at 4:17 this morning, when I just couldn't bring myself to work on my paper. Because...early mornings weren't made for that.
Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 5-6-06 - Published: 5-6-06
103. Why So Lovely, Starchild? reviews
She wants nothing more than willowbranch fingers and moonlight hair...
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-1-06 - Published: 5-1-06
104. In A Bottle reviews
He can't keep his own secrets, so he rolls them into glass bottles, where all the world can see...
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-30-06 - Published: 4-30-06
105. Blindness Forbids Perfection reviews
Written about a friend of mine, who has definite committment issues. She just can't seem to allow herself to love anyone anymore...
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 191 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-29-06 - Published: 4-29-06
106. Twisted Taboo Ribbons reviews
Written after a friend of mine spent all day attempting to catch the server guy's eye, but he was determinedly looking away and blushing. I don't know where this spun off into, the stratosphere of the insane, I suppose. xD
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 177 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-25-06 - Published: 4-25-06
107. Eyelashes reviews
Reflections on eyelashes.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 4-19-06 - Published: 4-19-06
108. The Crash reviews
Inspired by a car crash I saw on my way home, in which the two cars had wrecked so completely they seemed like one car, which was actually pretty cool.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-16-06 - Published: 4-16-06
109. Desirous Revenge reviews
To all those who think they have me trapped in their world of conformity...heh.
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 4-11-06 - Published: 4-11-06
110. Father Figure reviews
Rather short for me...Everyone has someone they think of when they can't sleep, someone they want to hold them, or just to be near them. I know I do. Hint: it's not my father.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-11-06 - Published: 4-11-06
111. Recite Your Lines reviews
A poem written after I had to perform Romeo & Juliet..."recite your lines/with a heart that is a thousand waves/breaking on your chest/shaking hands clasped behind you/in inverse prayer/a sacrament to what Should. Not. Be..." R&R :)
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 449 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-7-06 - Published: 4-7-06
112. The Prophet On The Corner reviews
"Ask the prophet on the corner/entombed in filthy blankets/and whiskey jugs broken for the last drop/what you'll mean when you're gone/he'll solemnly slur,/'nothing, sir'..."
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 208 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-3-06 - Published: 4-3-06
113. Drink reviews
A toast to a girl who's in love with a man 30 years her senior and engaged to a social climber...slightly autobiographical..xD "how you start off/is how you end up/so She better start drinking/toasting to twenty-one shots/of having the wrong Him every ti
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-29-06 - Published: 3-29-06
114. Alone AgainLike You've Always Been reviews
About a girl I know who was abused, and the guy used as his defense 'I was afraid she wouldn't love me anymore'...uh...hello? R&R! love
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 238 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-28-06 - Published: 3-28-06
115. A Grown Up Game Of Make Believe reviews
It's easier to handle if you pretend it's him..."when the rivulets of watery shards/settle in every imperfection/on her chapped soul armour/ she imagines it's him/ running illicit fingers too fast to stop/down her body's bruised essence/impossible to hold
Love - Fiction Rated: M - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 159 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-27-06 - Published: 3-27-06
116. Discord reviews
Written with Aphrodite's 'golden apple of discord' in mind, the last few stanzas show that well enough..."Stretched to the dreams of infinity/I'll suspend my motions/for the moment of eternity..."
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 279 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-25-06 - Published: 3-25-06
117. The Purer Form reviews
I actually like this! It deals with how twisted religion can be..."Sweet mary/is the exhalation/begs for truth from the dead/the earless cannot hear his sins/he prayed for truth/once..."
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Parody/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 225 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-23-06 - Published: 3-23-06
118. The Art Of Decadence reviews
Written after I discovered that "decadence" means "falling down"...and so many people use it to describe something good! Well, hah, I've outwitted them, now haven't I? As usual, contains melancholy at unhealthy levels. Read at your own peril. R&R
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 297 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-22-06 - Published: 3-22-06
119. Sweet But Suicidal reviews
Written after I was reading "adolescent suicides" and more than 10 guys came up to me and all said "is that a how to book" and beamed like they were the gods of wit. Well, f them. xD
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 3-21-06 - Published: 3-21-06
120. Why Rugs Are Hung On Walls reviews
"Why do they hang rugs on walls?/ To cushion the blow, bien sur/ of course..."
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-19-06 - Published: 3-19-06
121. Parallel To Pain reviews
"Sweet hurt soon tires/of demure's genteel play/but pleasure's tastes/run eternally saccharine..."...About Hedonism (the worship of pleasure over pain)
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-17-06 - Published: 3-17-06
122. Painless Love reviews
"Catch what you cannot hold/streaming steamy from twisted/ wires pulled taut and frayed..."
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-17-06 - Published: 3-17-06
123. Color Our Lies reviews
"deftly weaving threads of spoiled me/ into the tapestry of perverted truth/ they will walk by/a thousand years gone/ murmer 'what beautiful fabric'/ and continue past our pain..."
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-5-06 - Published: 3-5-06
124. Coquettish Dusk reviews
"Callous lillies sin softly/adored by Luicifer/in their tempting dress/of meticulous pain/sewn from hope's wings/into despair's gossamer threads..."
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-4-06 - Published: 3-4-06
125. Venusian Skeletons reviews
"Eons whisper promises false/as the ashes swirl in blasphemy..."
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-3-06 - Published: 3-3-06
126. Grieving Willows Ponder You And Yours reviews
"You'll not cry for his decimated soul/you cry for the absent-presence/he leaves behind and you/are jealous of his eternity
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 338 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-26-06 - Published: 2-26-06
127. The Candy Man reviews
"High school teacher/chair of the board/has candy lounging on his desk/and if you dare/you'll take a piece for your enjoyment/but his, as deep dark well..."
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 2-25-06 - Published: 2-25-06
128. Claire De Lune reviews
"Because it wasn't right the first time/Play it again/Never let your eyes leave me..."
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 2-23-06 - Published: 2-23-06
129. Elegantly Wrong reviews
"musky smell of what shouldn't be/permeates your mind/sits in your parlor/unwelcome tenant of your bed/you know it's there/so why deny it?..."
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-21-06 - Published: 2-21-06
130. Staying After Class is Highly Underrated reviews
"when you give your lectures/ and she doesn't make it easy/ by rolling pink gum in between/ high-glossed sexed-up lips"
School - Fiction Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 244 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 2-20-06 - Published: 2-20-06
131. Cerulean Sins reviews
"Enclosed loosely in packaging of lies/ tempting tendrils of torn temperance/ lay open and bleeding..."
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-20-06 - Published: 2-20-06
132. Crimson Tissues Bleed Nothing reviews
Sometimes you just need a good, hot cup o' unrequited love. and when you know that love has NO chance, it increases the literary output twofold...>
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-14-06 - Published: 2-14-06
133. I Won't Have Changed reviews
What poem honestly warrants a summary. But..the meaning is open to interpretation.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 212 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-2-06 - Published: 2-2-06
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