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since: 03-07-07, id: 559123, Profile Updated: 10-05-08
country: United States
Author has written 7 stories for Romance, and Young Adult.

PUT YOUR HANDS UP FOR DETROIT, I LOVE THIS CITY!

Lives: on planet Earth

Is: a hopeless romantic, moody, pissed of in a good way, imaginative, open-minded

Wishes to be: a world traveler, Novelist, peace protestor, a good friend

Fan of: Girl Talk, Indigo Girls, Dashboard Confessional, Blink-182, Regina Spektor, The Fray, Sondre Lerche, WEEZER

Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, P.S. I Love You, Harry Potter, Pride & Prejudice, Gladiator, Without a Paddle

Artists: Edouvard Manet, Corot, James Whistler, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fuseli, Berthe Morisot, Maruice Denis

Strives: to get into a fist fight or knife someone, to find Mr. Right, to be happy, to always say what's on her mind

Manet's Olympia
By M. ATWOOD

She reclines, more or less.
Try that posture, it's hardly languor.
Her right arm sharp angles.
WIth her left she conceals her ambush.
Shoes but not stockings,
how sinister. The flower
behind her ear is naturally
not real, of a piece
with the sofa's drapery.
The windows (if any) are shut.
This is indoor sin.
Above the head of the (clothed) maid
is an invisible voice balloon: Slut

But. Consider the body,
unfragile, defiant, the pale nipples
staring you right in the bull's-eye.
Consider also the black ribbon
around the neck. What's under it?
A fine red threadline, where the head
was taken off and glued back on.
The body's on offer,
but the neck's as far as it goes.
This is no morsel.
Put clothes on her and you'd have a schoolteacher,
the kind with the brittle whiphand.

There's someone else in this room.
You, Monsieur Voyeur.
As for that object of yours
she's seen those before, and better.

I, the head, am the only subject
of this picture.
You, sir, are furniture.
Get stuffed.

THE GREAT GUY - COMPLETE - 10/03/08

SOUNDTRACK TO THE GREAT GUY - "This Modern Love" : Bloq Party

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1. Romantics at Their Best reviews
Always the one to piss her off, it turns out he's the one to love her always. Array of oneshots
Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 548 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-3-08 - Published: 10-3-08
2. The Great Guy » reviews
He didn't mean a thing to me at first. Then he became a dream. And lastly, he confused me. True Story
Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 3 - Words: 2,634 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-3-08 - Published: 9-19-07
3. What a Pisser » reviews
He seemed to be following her everywhere and entirely bent on destroying her any way possible. Every time she saw him he either took her breath away or confused her. In the midst of two rival schools, this isn't going to end pretty.
Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 13 - Words: 34,324 - Reviews: 25 - Updated: 7-18-08 - Published: 3-13-07
4. Misconceptions reviews
ON HUGE HIATUS
Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,111 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-7-08 - Published: 5-7-08
5. Catharsis » reviews
Friendship and love never come easy in this journey called life. A few random, some not.
Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 4 - Words: 1,160 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-27-08 - Published: 1-17-08
6. Rose, Come Back! » reviews
She just wanted a love story, he just wanted revenge. He was Jack, she was Rose and this is their love story.
Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 4 - Words: 7,910 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-22-08 - Published: 2-12-08
7. Not What it Was Supposed to Be » reviews
She thought she had her perfect love story, her perfect man. What she thought he was, he really isn't and what she thought could be, never would. It just so turns out the day she lost her first love, she met another.
Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 3 - Words: 7,345 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-30-08 - Published: 1-21-08
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