"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." H.L. Mencken was a wise man. No wonder he snagged a woman 18 years younger than him.

Love is my heart, and romance the mind. I skip in ruby red fields while the skies drip blood&passion. This is my crash course for fiction writing. Despite all the plagiarizers multiplying like rabbits, I still love this site and will probably continue posting here for the unforeseeable future. Also, I'm a freak. I welcome others like me.

Reviews make me a very happy girl.

I have a Tumblr. Pretty pictures and emotional vomit spilled into interminable blocks of text. Extra writing can be found on my poetry blog & my Wordpress, which are both links on there. You can creep after my book reviews/status updates on Twitter and Goodreads. Questions? Find me on Formspring. I've been nominated for Best Breakout Author Round 12 on SKOW! Go read the awesome stories on there :)

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” -Oscar Wilde

Read. Read all the time. Read until your brain is dripping with words. Until your blood becomes the same consistency as ink, you can't expect to play in the big leagues.

Stories:

Flash of Lightning was born when I visited the beautiful attraction of Guilin, China. Although Three Gorges is real, FoL's Three Gorges is an imaginary place in between Europe and Asia. I'm editing and reposting in random intervals right now, as well as cringing at my bad fourteen-year-old writing. Although I'm not much older now...

Everything I Need is about the little nuances of writing, as well as an exploration of how we have power over the words we wield. Also, Raphael is sexy. This story is probably closest to my heart, and I'm so glad to be able to share it with everyone.

Gleam is actually not up on FP because I'm almost done with it, and I want to edit it and get someone to look at it before I post it on here in its full glory (not really). The blurb goes like this: They exist on the edges of possibility, always chasing each other, caught in an eternal dance for power supreme. For they are Shadow and Light, and any love that could exist between them is impossible…and deadly.

Hell Hath No Fury is this terrible bad boy&bad girl concoction with satanic biblical references. If you have a hankering for sadists and little pudgy boys who are not what they seem, you can apply to The Write Away and see it. Trust me, there are way better stories on that site than mine.

Get In, Get Out has been removed because it's a testament to my earlier writing, and my earlier writing is crap. If you're curious, there are drugs and sex. And crazy women. And that is all you need to know. Blurb: He was a self-destructive adrenaline junky looking for his next fix, and she just needed someone there. Somehow, they found each other. Thank you to anyone who's ever read and reviewed it; it means a lot to me that you guys supported me as I puzzled through Lacey and Nico's relationship. And the Chicago mob.

Coming Soon:

Reexamination: He found love in the contours of her body while she drew hearts in the blood of the dead. The world is crumbling, but we are still alive.

Sands of Time (title subject to change): Isis didn't mind her bratty first graders or the many visits to the National History Museum until a freaky spell revives a devastatingly attractive ancient Egyptian pharaoh who's dead set on making her his slave.

Woes of a Part-Time Seductress