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Author has written 45 stories for Life, Romance, Love, Essay, Young Adult, Song, Mystery, Spiritual, Humor, and General. CD 1.0: Me. The only one you'll ever talk to. In college. Not majoring in English. I've only uploaded like 4/10's of all the stories I've written. I should post more. I hate how FP's profile window is still glitchy, narrow and written exclusively in HTML, after six freaking months. CD 2.0: My best friend/story sounding board. We were too lazy to make separate accounts, once upon a time. She used to just read, but now she doesn't even do that. Don't expect to hear from her. The Border's Reign As A Series (i.e.: My Baby) In a nutshell: This series explores the ethical implications of manufacturing and enforcing prophecies. While the Border etc. has varying importance and influence, it is what ultimately connects every single one of these (hopefully very different) stories. I explain how it works every time, as well, so you can read as little or as many as you like. Combinations (even though it's short), Splitting Hairs, Salute, Even Still,Bewinkled, The Girl With the Expiration Date, and When Beast Owns Nature are all part of this. The Girl With the Expiration Date General: Romance/Drama Companion Novel: When Beast Owns Nature COMPLETE To use the Hero's Journey formula, this is the latter journey through the eyes of the 'mentor-character'. In a modern setting. Confronting the ethics of prophecy manufacturing. Full Summary: Were you ever given a job that's important, so important that your actions could dictate the outcome of something much bigger than you? If you failed, other people would fail—have you ever known that sort of responsibility? How would you react to knowing the exact moment of your own death, years ahead of time? How do you think you would be if, say, you knew you probably had to initiate it, to ensure it happened, or else cause people you have come to love to fail so monumentally they never recover? Would you do it for them? Would you do it then? How about for humanity itself, in its entirety? What if you had to decide all of this, and you were only fourteen years old? When Beast Owns Nature Romance: Drama/Fantasy Companion Novel: The Girl With the Expiration Date -COMPLETE- Formerly Click; I think you will all agree when I say this title fits better. I'm trying out a completely different writing style, largely inspired by authors Sarah Dessen and John Green. Full Summary: They never tell you what happens after the hero saves everything in existence. This is why. Tressin Johnson is the sort of woman who didn't need ghosts or demons to be haunted, because she does it just fine on her own. The worst part is, if she had her way, she would talk about it. Seek therapy, find comfort in other human beings—anything but keep it inside. She isn't allowed to speak of it, though. The last thing Tressin could be called is ordinary—it's obvious, even in her name—but she is forbidden to be anything else. It's hard to be angry at the enforcers of these rules, though. Not only do they live by the same code, they have saved her life more times than they will say, and definitely more than she is willing to pry into. It would be hyperbole to call Tressin a ticking time bomb, but in a way she is. It's only a matter of time before she shatters, unless she can find a way, a person, a place in which to save herself. They never tell you what happens after the hero saves everything in existence. Tressin is why. Splitting Hairs Romance: Hurt/Comfort/Fantasy Update Status: Chapter 8: Eh. I lost my train of thought/inspiration (it was kind of a phase I went through). I don't know when this will be up. It only had, like, one review anyway. Salute Romance: Humor/Sci-Fi -COMPLETE- This has traces of The Little Mermaid in it, if you think about it. I thought that was pretty fun. :) The Date: "She is taking this prostitute out on a date come hell or high water, and her plan is going to work because it would break her if it didn't." This is something Kirsten does while she and Conner have that four year separation. It is totally canon. Full Summary: She's quirky, but that's no reason to assume she's from another world. She loves watching fights, but that doesn't conjure the picture of her killing her first Hunter while the other children in her generation learn cursive. She's never had a steady boyfriend, but nobody would guess it's because of a contract binding her, body and soul. Just because she doesn't look like she's thirty years old doesn't automatically mean that she's an alien. The funny thing is that it's all true anyway. She's a liar, but she's got a tell. It's not obvious; you can't see it by looking at her. You can't see it by being her friend. Wait until she gives her heart away, and then it will all come out. Once you know her, you can't go back. He never knew what he was getting into. His wildest dreams weren't even this crazy. The year 2015 is overrun with technology, but sincerity still exists. This isn't new, and it isn't old, it is merely the manifestation of love in circumstances that are a little less than ordinary. Even Still Romance: Fantasy/Mystery -COMPLETE- From the Border's Reign universe, yes, but no recognizable characters anywhere. An Enigmatic Future (LINK: .com/s/2893830/1/An_Enigmatic_Future) is basically an alternate universe, meant only for those who have read the story. I can't say more than that, because there are major spoilers. ;P Then there's a canon oneshot about Maeos :D (LINK: .com/s/2931966/1/Maeos). I wouldn't read this until you've finished the story first, though. I made no effort to streamline things for the ignorant reader whatsoever. Full Summary: What if women ruled the world? We joke about it, but what would really happen if estrogen triumphed over testosterone, if the essential traits that accompanied those hormones were flipped? In reality, it would be easy to predict when war would break out. The political games would become even more mind-bendingly complex than they are today. The punishments would raise goose bumps on your skin. In reality, women would be like men. Broad. Muscled. Aggressive. Providers. If you end up small and weak, like Nahpenei, your very life could be jeopardized by day to day existence. It's a wonder she's lived this long, it truly is. And men—in reality, they would become like women. Soft. Accommodating. Dependant. Caretakers of the children and home. Having the gall to talk back to a woman, like Maeos, is almost certain death in this precariously balanced world. Men are meant to be seen, not heard. His continued existence is another miracle, surely. Oh, but there are always alternate lifestyles. The Nazom, for example. There, men are not only tolerated, but considered equal to their female counterparts. The Queendom would have been annihilated dozens of cycles ago, if it weren't such a convenient port for trade with the Islands. Trade anywhere along the otherwise uninhabitable eastern coast of the continent, actually. An undersized exile, a man with a temper, and an alternative country. All in all, an unlikely trio. One certainly in for a rough time, for being so nonconformist. But even still, it's interesting. Even still, it ignites some curiosity. After all, women are ruling the world. Bewinkled Young Adult: Crime/Supernatural -COMPLETE- Applicable to Border's Reign, but another complete standalone. Also the darkest, most explicit-everything story I have ever written. Full Summary: In a world billions of light years away, accessible only through worm holes and sheer luck, there lives a race of humans as advanced as we are. But there are a few differences. The technology is a little greener; there is no such thing as cell phones; and one puff of Rink, the drug of choice, has more tar than an entire pack of cigarettes. The government is outrageously conservative, and while there is magic—or energy manipulation, as they prefer to call it—it is repressed, existing only in tiny, remote pockets. These places aren't meant to be easy to find, but if law enforcement were to stumble across them, somehow, they would discover rebels of every shape, size, and specialty. There's a golden boy with a dark history. A promiscuous woman with an ancient, evolutionary purpose. A Rinker who is smarter than all of them combined. A killer who might just feel some remorse. These all sound like stereotypes, but remember that this is a different world. By our standards, even these things turn out a little weird, a little messed up, a little stilted—in other words, a little bewinkled. Without Being Told Romance: Sci-Fi/Adventure Inspired by 'Soul Mate' by Natasha Beddingfield. More of a political commentary than you'd think, though not as blatant as, say, George Orwell. If you look underneath the cutesy scenes, you'll probably see it. Update Status: I'm updating with no real rhyme or reason. Just whenever I remember to. So… yeah. Sorry in advance for my lack of reliability with this one, kids. | |||||||
1. He Never Grew Up » reviewsThe story of a bisexual man and his five failed marriages. SKoW challenge response, rated M for a reason.Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 3 - Words: 8,817 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-27-12 - Published: 3-1-122. Without Being Told » reviewsFirst she's not supposed to know he exists, and now they deliver him unconscious to her doorstep. Having a soul mate wasn't supposed to be this complicated, even if he was American.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 12 - Words: 55,102 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 3-27-12 - Published: 1-6-123. Something Like Hercules » reviews"I told you, you're not supposed to know I'm doin' it for money," she said through partially clenched teeth. "Please help me out here. One date, I swear. Then we can go our separate ways." It wasn't supposed to change his life, but somehow... it did.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 12 - Words: 35,266 - Reviews: 26 - Updated: 2-19-12 - Published: 1-10-084. The Girl With The Expiration Date » reviewsCOMPLETE. The only thing that set Morgan apart from her peers was the fact she had one month, sixteen days, fourteen hours, twenty-seven minutes and forty-five seconds left to live. All of her other traits-well, they could have belonged to anybody.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 18 - Words: 62,091 - Reviews: 14 - Updated: 10-17-11 - Published: 4-25-11 - Complete5. When Beast Owns Nature » reviewsCOMPLETE. Her lips and brain were numb, as if she had just been kissed senseless. Except the last time she had touched him was to hold his hand and sob at his feet, and all he was doing right now was looking at her. Beauty and the Beast rewrite.Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Drama/Fantasy - Chapters: 17 - Words: 61,401 - Reviews: 59 - Updated: 9-7-11 - Published: 3-26-11 - Complete6. Flames And Glaciers reviewsFor Heihdlyn the only constant in her life was the illegal fire pit in her backyard. Fire would always be fire; it didn't change the way people did. The way SHE did. Oneshot.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,627 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-24-11 - Complete7. Bewinkled » reviews"Torture me, baby. Kill me," he murmured, solemn and serious and all too vulnerable. "I'll fall apart without you, anyway, so if you don't care about me, just do it." NaNo '10Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: M - English - Crime/Supernatural - Chapters: 19 - Words: 63,304 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 7-27-11 - Published: 11-2-10 - Complete8. Maeos reviewsEven Still oneshot. This wasn't personal; he was just lonely. WARNING: adult content, NC-17, etc.Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,153 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-11-11 - Complete9. An Enigmatic Future » reviewsMaeos tended to become irritable when he was concerned for a person's well being. It had to be one of his most contradictory traits. Spinoff to Even Still.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 8 - Words: 22,946 - Reviews: 28 - Updated: 5-8-11 - Published: 2-23-11 - Complete10. Forestry Majors In Love » reviewsHe tried to tell me he was a werewolf, but did I believe him? Oh no. Now I'm eating my words, as he's trying to eat roadkill. They always told me college would be a place for new and interesting experiences... twoshot.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 6,528 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 3-18-11 - Published: 3-16-11 - Complete11. Even Still » reviewsAll of a sudden his arms were around her middle and his face was pressed against her neck. The action was almost desperate. "You can't just make a mess of everything and die," he murmured into her skin. "You can't." COMPLETEFiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Fantasy/Mystery - Chapters: 22 - Words: 80,882 - Reviews: 63 - Updated: 2-23-11 - Published: 9-4-10 - Complete12. A Possession Thing » reviewsKicking ass and taking names is easy, but Veronica-i.e.: superhero Ordinary Woman-has a weakness: Aubrey the poet. More specifically, his really pretty eyes. "Oh, get over yourself. You always look like you're drunk when you recite poetry." For SKoWFiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 11,879 - Reviews: 14 - Updated: 9-11-10 - Published: 8-15-10 - Complete13. Combinations » reviewsGuy: "You need me." Girl: "No I don't." Guy: "Yes you do." Girl: "F!#K you! Get out of my house!" One could say that this is where their love story began. Shortstory for kleopatra 218. COMPLETEFiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Angst/Humor - Chapters: 3 - Words: 10,972 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 6-12-10 - Published: 5-27-10 - Complete14. Salute » reviewsIf he tilted his head she might not seem so abstract. If she shifted her stance she might just save him. This isn't a game; you can't leave yourself at the door. It's called falling in love, and they'll never, ever be the same again. NaNo '09 COMPLETEFiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Humor/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 43 - Words: 129,250 - Reviews: 73 - Updated: 6-3-10 - Published: 11-3-09 - Complete15. Splitting Hairs » reviewsShe had power that nobody else had, and she wielded it over him like an executioner wields an axe. Oh yes, and they were slated to be married. -An experiment with traditional role switching-Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Hurt/Comfort/Fantasy - Chapters: 7 - Words: 11,709 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-18-09 - Published: 6-10-0916. Judging Books reviewsAnd if she asks he will give her everything, but he's just another guy. oneshot.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,040 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-15-09 - Complete17. The Date reviewsShe is taking this prostitute out on a date come hell or high water, and her plan is going to work because it would break her if it didn't. oneshot, Salute spinoff.Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,951 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-15-09 - Complete18. Rest Aside reviews38 year old Keeley Shratner wasn't looking for anything different. Not really. But you can't predict love the same way you can't predict a complete stranger writing a novel all about you, and this she has yet to learn. oneshot. SKoW challenge response.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,504 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 4-25-09 - Complete19. Hope's Aura reviewsoneshot. There were times when her conscience refused to be left at the door. She hated it. She was a thief and this was a war; she wasn't supposed to care. And yet here her life's partner was, teaching her about hope and why it wasn't so stupid after allFiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,123 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-12-09 - Complete20. Hallmark Chick Flick reviewsoneshot. The opportunity to go to boarding school was beautiful. My life had been constraining me, and now I could get out, have new experiences, be someone new. I was leaving happily, but before that it had to be me and Tommy and the rain.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 793 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-12-09 - Complete21. Pick Out The Yellow Skittles reviewsoneshot. And he would eat the disgusting yellow skittles because he wouldn't eat anything else and I would eat everything else because they were better. It was our silent deal, and we would have it no other way.Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,088 - Reviews: 15 - Published: 1-12-09 - Complete22. Big Deal reviewsoneshot. He was perfectly content with the way things were. They spent enough time together, and their relationship was close and comfortable. She didn't have to know he loved her, but she could. She wanted to know, and she wanted to make a big deal of itFiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 901 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-3-09 - Complete23. Everything To You reviewsoneshot. Everything about her was tiny and quiet. She didn't want to be seen. And this was attention; the horrid, much avoided act of being noticed, and suddenly she didn't fucking care. She popped that gum like she was deaf, and he hated it. SKOW NOMINEEFiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,646 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12-19-08 - Complete24. Sincerely reviewsRin doubted that his relationship with Heihd would ever feel stagnant to him; he just hoped that her sentiments were similar. He would be a failure as a husband if they weren't. -oneshot. experiment with traditional role switching-Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,643 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-8-08 - Complete25. Sleep Now reviewsOneshot. And then you wake up.Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 483 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-7-08 - Complete26. Medication And Batons reviewsSee? See? I get it now. This baton's longer and thicker than you'll ever be!" But she was the resident lesbian and he was her best friend. She didn't want to know; she was just convinced was a little more crooked than he professed. We'll see.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,112 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-20-08 - Complete27. m o n s o o n reviews"Oh, so you wanted to get candles from me so there would be a nice atmosphere and create a romantic date out of a disaster?" he gushed, squealing like a little girl."Just for me? That's one of the sweetest things I've ever heard!" Laughing, he hugged her.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,853 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 5-25-08 - Complete28. Like Coffee reviewsAnd as the baton keeps twirling, I'll gauge my little nook out of the eyes of a dragon. Just me, the heart living inside your head.Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 421 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-4-08 - Complete29. Ode To The End reviewsoneshot. I think there's something appealing about being the one who stands off to the side watching the happy couple dance as though tomorrow will never come, just you and your thoughts. Ode To The End of The World dancing makes you look stupid, anyway.Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 408 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-21-08 - Complete30. Sleep On It reviewsI wouldn't call this looking at it realistically. I would call this looking at it cynically because I'm too afraid of being let down. It's not as if it's happened to me, but if it could to someone else how could I be an exception?Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,521 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-9-08 - Complete31. BellDrabble. An endless, almost otherworldly noise, it reverberated off of the walls and wove eerily between bodies and through small, ghostly clouds of breath being projected into the cold air.Fiction: Spiritual - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 365 - Published: 3-9-08 - Complete32. The Right of Passage » reviewsPoems. Woke up with uglies on the mind. Hopes contain things wishes never could. Hearts are broken every day. You say you don't need it. What makes you think your words will be enough to make me fall apart? Too lost, so close. And it's all for her.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 6 - Words: 2,374 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 3-7-08 - Published: 4-25-0733. S T A G N A T E reviewsOneshot. He never stopped her. She could rant and rave and scream at him all she wanted. She could rape him, slap him, just stand here kissing him until she passed out, and he'd let her do it.Fiction: Romance - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,305 - Reviews: 18 - Published: 1-12-08 - Complete34. Injected With Normal reviewsLooking down at her, he gave her a small, slightly irritated smile that brightened her world by several shades, despite its expression."You heard me," he said. "I don't really know how, but you've managed to make yourself mean more to me than you think."Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,111 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 1-7-08 - Complete35. C I GFN B » reviewsTwoshot. Because she couldn't help loving him, stick up the ass and all.Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,355 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-4-08 - Published: 12-26-07 - Complete36. Barefoot in the Snow reviewsA story of just how far entirely unrequited love and worthless wishes can go. [Christmas oneshot]Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,341 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-24-07 - Complete37. Just Another reviewsBoy meets girl. Yeah, it's that obvious. Or is it?Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 394 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12-14-07 - Complete38. Phantom reviewsoneshot. It hurts one's reputation when they fall flat on their face and have no way of saying 'I knew that would happen' ...Oh well. At least it's blue raspberry. That's my favorite.Fiction: Mystery - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,175 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-8-07 - Complete39. Rush reviewsEverybody wants to see more than a face when they look in the mirror.Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 452 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-6-07 - Complete40. Debacle reviewsBut she's too far gone to notice.Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 345 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-4-07 - Complete41. Only reviewsSometimes you're more than you think you are.Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 428 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-1-07 - Complete42. Quote Contemplation » reviewsSometimes words and sayings are meant to be taken at face value, but more often than not they're rhetorical. Sophie and Lindsey are quickly learning to read between the lines.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,168 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-10-07 - Published: 10-2-07 - Complete43. The Definition of Comfort reviewsoneshot. When I hear the word comfort, I think of something fluffy and soft pink in color, but in reality it's sleek and dark blue and textured, like a snake's skin.Fiction: Essay - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,056 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-28-07 - Complete44. Sweet Poison reviewsAnd it's all for her.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 616 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-17-07 - Complete
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