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| Xerophyte |
Author has written 51 stories for Young Adult, Nature, Politics, Life, Horror, Sci-Fi, Love, Essay, General, General, Song, School, Romance, Friendship, Humor, Religion, and Family. Xerophyte, n. About Me: I write because I can't get away with being this honest in real life. I write for me, but I hope you enjoy it. I am a musician, and music is love in search of a word. I am terrible at making personal decisions. I am a bunch of compliments that I cannot accept. I am trying to figure out what it all means. I am not an optimist or a pessimist. I hope. I am eighteen and have no marketable skills. I am terrible at writing profile information that doesn't make me sound like the person I was. I am a very smug Mac user. I do not like One-Way signs; there is never only one way. I am, despite the odds, happy. News: For once, there's actually legitimate news. I was PM'd sometime around...well, last month (wow, I'm bad with this whole "updating" thing), and apparently I won some sort of contest. I did not enter my writing into said contest, but apparently the Some Kind of Wonderful awards picked Continuum as the winner in the judges' pick category for poems. Quite frankly, I'm pleased with myself. Not only do I have actual news to post on my page, but somebody likes my writing. WooHoo! So thanks, Some Kind of Wonderful! Glad you liked it. Life update: I now live in upstate New York where I work my ass of as a music performance major by day and mother figure/writer/intellectual by night. I wish I could accurately use the "I wear too many hats" metaphor, but I haven't worn my fedora at all. | |||||||||||
1. Sleep reviewsStrange-kind-of-love.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-29-09 - Published: 10-29-092. Context reviewsI could write nine symphonies on one deaf ear.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Mystery/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-28-09 - Published: 10-28-093. Home reviewsHome is a feeling I buried in you. An entranced prayer.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-22-09 - Published: 10-22-094. The New Year reviewsI believe in new leaves from withered trees on Rosh Hashanah it is written; on Yom Kippur it is sealed .Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 214 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-28-09 - Published: 9-28-095. Sundays reviewsThe clocks tick backwards here.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-11-09 - Published: 6-11-096. The People Who Stay » reviewsThere are those that leave and those that never leave you. A multi-sectioned work.Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Adventure/Mystery - Chapters: 2 - Words: 356 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-7-09 - Published: 3-22-097. Double Espresso »You could say we’re a modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Well, there would be some exceptions. Romeo never got his head stuck in a drive-through window, and Juliet definitely didn’t deliver her balcony speech in a nauseatingly sappy way at a poetry reading.Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Parody - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,700 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-5-09 - Published: 6-4-098. Retrospect reviewsIt's a night of false jewels, of preparation and perception.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-4-09 - Published: 6-4-099. And So She Falls reviewsInspired by A Softer World's "I'd rather die terrified than live forever."Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-18-09 - Published: 5-18-0910. Clocks » reviewsExperiment in Style: Villanelle and Sonnet.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 2 - Words: 303 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-22-09 - Published: 3-19-0911. The Day the Language Died reviewsA dystopian short story a la Fahrenheit 451. When letters replace syllables and syllables replace words, where has all the language gone?Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,230 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-23-09 - Published: 1-23-0912. Let It Fall reviewsYou used to sing until you lost your voice.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 298 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-23-09 - Published: 1-23-0913. More Than Words reviewsI was there the day passion died, but you are more than words.Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 262 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-6-09 - Published: 1-6-0914. Certainty reviewsMatter is nothing but scientific measurement, hard proof, certain things. Funny that that’s how we define what “matters.”Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Mystery/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 606 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-21-08 - Published: 12-21-0815. Continuum reviewsSpontaneously generated fission.Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 12-16-08 - Published: 12-16-0816. Chasing Shadows reviewsWhat's the reason in reason?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 159 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-16-08 - Published: 12-16-0817. Are You Nervous? reviewsWe were pushing our luck and pushing our boundaries, with a million chances to turn back. A million chances we wouldn't take.Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 859 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-27-08 - Published: 11-27-0818. Black Coffee reviewsYou say I'm acerbic...School - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-15-08 - Published: 11-15-0819. The Dawning of a Soul reviewsOn Music. The title is the title of a Wind Ensemble piece. From that moment on, we were musicians.Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 721 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-14-08 - Published: 9-14-0820. For Once reviewsThe unknowingly sexy, nerdy, unconfident English 101 professor meets the confident, unknowingly nerdy and sappy Andi at a party. For once, they both go a little outside their usual confines.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,593 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-13-08 - Published: 9-13-0821. Something Real reviewsYou'll say it once but never twice.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-10-08 - Published: 9-10-0822. Optimist reviewsBecause you cut out headlines so they read your way.Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 240 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-18-08 - Published: 6-18-0823. Emerald Eyes reviewsI'm setting myself up for disaster and loving every minute of it. I think we call this infatuation...Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-24-07 - Published: 10-24-0724. Scrabble reviewsYou're strategic I'm not. Are we playing Scrabble or are we playing Love?Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 590 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-14-07 - Published: 10-14-0725. Marco Polo reviewsI know where you are, but I can't find you. That was the day when I figured it all out.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 620 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-27-07 - Published: 9-27-0726. The New World reviews[college essay] Based off Dvorak's New World Symphony.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 342 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-26-07 - Published: 9-26-0727. Anniversary Adversary reviewsNot your typical Love Poem. i.e: not nausiatingly sappy, more in a prose format but doesn't really fit in under the Fiction category. I hate anniverseries. I love you.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-23-07 - Published: 9-23-0728. Sixteen reviews...I brushed the last crispy leaf off my heart... [Personal Narrative]Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 746 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 3-9-07 - Published: 3-9-0729. Pressure reviewsCliques conjealed like the JellO in our lunchboxes. [personal narrative]Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,243 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-21-07 - Published: 2-21-0730. Three Words reviews[being in love is all too easy, but loving someone is not]Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-12-07 - Published: 2-12-0731. Love Poems » reviews[we wrote love poems on the palms of our hands & shook] Edit added second chapter.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 418 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 2-12-07 - Published: 1-15-0732. Hero reviewsSometimes silence speaks the loudest.Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 443 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-11-07 - Published: 1-11-0733. Shades of Grey reviewsyou can see the world all the more clearly in shades of grey. [dancing in the rain]Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-19-06 - Published: 12-19-0634. Breath reviewsaugmented melodies had always been music to my ears. why, you ask? because they resolve.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-15-06 - Published: 12-15-0635. BlackHeart » reviews[REVISIONS: Through Chapter 2] Eryn, captured by a mysterious stranger, has been tossed into the web of secrets, lies, love, & power that is the world of vampires. What's a girl to do when love runs deep and lies run deeper?Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 15 - Words: 16,913 - Reviews: 64 - Updated: 12-14-06 - Published: 7-10-0636. simplicity reviewsI had once upon a time in my eyes and you had the end...Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 177 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-3-06 - Published: 12-3-0637. I Questioned Questioning Homosexuality » reviewsBillboards glorify this gay therapy, supposedly giving hope that change is possible. I beg to differ. Attempts at change are different for every person, and there is much evidence to show that change is harmful. Flamers will be beaten with cooked macaroniComplete - Essay - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,025 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 11-27-06 - Published: 11-27-0638. Gone reviews...the youth of us is dying, dying to be gone...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-14-06 - Published: 11-14-0639. To Correct and to Serve: On the Art of Reviews reviewsA humerous guide to reviewing and being reviewed.Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,159 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 11-7-06 - Published: 11-7-0640. Traffic Lights reviewstime is eternal but nothing is forever.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 10-24-06 - Published: 10-24-0641. Intoxication reviewsthere's panic hiding in the rosebushes...Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 10-7-06 - Published: 10-7-0642. crushed reviews...please don't tell me it was just a crush...Rated to be safe. Reviews: you know the drill. YouMeLove - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-30-06 - Published: 8-30-0643. Getaway reviews...the right lane merges just south of happy ending...Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-17-06 - Published: 8-17-0644. Catalyst reviews...you never expected to be a domino in our chain reaction...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-14-06 - Published: 8-14-0645. Homogenize reviewsWe're writing our names in the sand, knowing only that it will wash away...Politics - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-28-06 - Published: 7-28-0646. The Perfect Society reviewsThis is what it takes to make the perfect society, they thought. One Shot as of now...could possibly be continued if I feel like it. Reviews: you know the drill...Sci-Fi - Fiction Rated: T - English - Suspense/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 409 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-26-06 - Published: 7-26-0647. Silent Storm reviewsJenna, after coming out to her parents, has been sent to a Catholic school. One Shot, you review me, I rev-you know the drill...Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 604 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 6-29-06 - Published: 6-29-0648. Memory reviewsRipped jeans and paint-the picture fades and time slips away...Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-22-06 - Published: 6-22-0649. A World Apart reviewsYou had always found freedom through conformity.Politics - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-22-06 - Published: 6-22-0650. Storm Symphony reviewsThe storm is a symphony. Comments and criticism welcomed;you review me, I review you!Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-14-06 - Published: 6-14-0651. Finding 'Normal' reviewsWhen high school meets weight/height issues...One shot, you review me and I'll review youYoung Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 494 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 6-1-06 - Published: 6-1-06