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Author has written 49 stories for Nature, Love, Life, Fantasy, Humor, General, Friendship, Religion, Fantasy, and Kids. I have an eye of silver, and I have an eye of gold; I have a tongue of reed-grass and a story to be told. - “Dazzledance” from “When I Was Young” - a cd of Irish children’s songs I am an undergrad at a small college in the Appalachians, but from the Tidewater region of VA. I love poetry, fantasy, and spirituality; exploring the world for odd words and interesting stories; and rain, crayons, old clothes, toy swords, and semicolons. I think I come off to my friends as some sort of moody hobbit. My favorite author is J.R.R. Tolkien, with Terry Pratchett close behind. And Lewis Carrol, Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis, Susanna Clarke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Brian Jaques, James Gurney, Lloyd Alexander, Garth Nix... and... so... I read a lot. Including dictionaries. I love reading dictionaries. My favorite bands are Steeleye Span, whom you've never heard of, and Dead Can Dance (ditto) and my favorite singers are Enya, Maddy Prior, and Ian Anderson. My favorite TV show is Stargate. My favorite movies are 1) adaptations of books that I've read, so that if they're good I can enjoy them and if they're not I can make fun of them and 2) weird fantasy/sci-fi movies from the 80's, i.e. Willow, the real Star Wars, etc. I also GREATLY DISLIKE most TV, anime, vampires, popular music, and teenage melodrama. I really don't know what I'm doing here. BTW: my deviantART page: http://white-rose-tree.deviantart.com/ GO LOOK AT MY ARTWORK! Tell me if it's better or worse than my poetry! Notes on stories (everything else, not mentioned below, is poetry): Anixtan - a nine-part story of my world, Origal, of the Gateland, and of the feuding ageless houses of Anixtan. My world is odd in that I invented almost everything in it; there are no witches or dragons or vampires, but there are Unlit and Gaudosim and Rain Dancers. I have been part of this story - the Anixtan story, I mean - since I was a very young child. My pen name is that of the main character, translated to English from my language, Ketshien. All I have on here, though, is an experimental drafting of the very beginning. YES, I WILL WORK MORE ON THIS - have been working on shorter other-world stories most recently, however. Dreamcaught - a children's dream-story, about a child who is trapped inside a dream-world, and must help fix its problems. I have finished the first draft of this story - and about half of it is posted here. I hope to work it into publishable form sometime fairly soon. Please, tell me what you think, and tell me if you want me to post more of it! Peter's Eyes - surprisingly, not written from a dream... I just have this fixation on blindness and homicidal fairies, apparently. Peter will probably show up again, after I actually do some more research on seeing-eye dogs and such. And yes, it's a 'possum named Opossum (O-poss-um). Set in my hometown, along the river... I don't know how well I described the place? The White Tower - a little thing I wrote to a writing prompt. I thought I would put it up, as, even if it's not very good (believe me, it's not) or in either of my worlds (Dream or Origal) it's finished. You wouldn't believe how rarely I finish anything. A Magical Day - another story written from a dream I had, featuring food and fairies (who are NOT nice). Set in early 19th century, as a result of embroidering the hem of a linen dress in the style of that period. Shadowings - shadow + wings = shadowings. Set in Traum, a bit before Dreamcaught, but not from a dream; inspired by some Worth1000.com images. I'm not certain exactly where the story is going, but it should be interesting wherever it goes. NEW - the Oru nen Meggidim, or "Spectrum of Stories." A series of Gatelander (Ketshiien) fairy tales, compiled from a lot of random notes and half-finished bits in notebooks. These are classics in Ketshiiu, as well-known as the Grimm's stories are to us; though they may at times be bewildering without a background knowledge of Ketshiien mythology and religion (I'm working on that). They include The Snake Husband, Flying Teeth, A Bowl of Milk, Breaker's Bridge, The House of Dreams, The Three Stones, and more. Notes on poetry: I promise, some day, to go back and work on those marked unfinished. I haven't, thus far, as I've been writing more new ones. | |||||||
1. SoS: The Snake HusbandSpectrum of Stories" no. 1. A young man becomes ensared by an ancient sorcery. Moral: possibly, don't run off with creeps you meet at the market.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,637 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-1-09 - Published: 11-1-092. The Muse of Poetry reviewsSomething I've been playing with. Describing the "Muse of Poetry" in the mind of a poet. Sort of.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-18-09 - Published: 10-18-093. You and MeAbout meeting an old friend along life's journey. I think.Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 207 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-18-09 - Published: 10-18-094. Storm Shell Triple PoemTechnically three poems in one, something I was trying for the first time. FP won't let me set it up like it is in Word. So - all together, and every other word. Not brilliant not at all but a practice in form. Tell me what you think.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-13-09 - Published: 9-13-095. MothI saw a luna moth alive, for the first time in my life, yesterday - and only I did, because I was the one awake at dawn. Here's a poem for it... I may rewrite this and make it longer, and more about the moth. It was beautiful.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-13-09 - Published: 9-13-096. The Street of the Mourning DovesI don't know. What do you think?Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-13-09 - Published: 9-13-097. Shadowings »A county of Traum has a strange, magical problem. But why? Is it deeper and more dangerous than it firsst appears to be? And what does the young housemaid, Lillian Eyler, have to do with it? A work in progress - but please read and review for so far.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 5 - Words: 3,433 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-6-09 - Published: 9-6-098. Anixtan: The Beginning »The Spirit Council is distressed by the fighting among their worlds' peoples. Making a guess from an ancient prophecy, they do what they can to protect and confine the worlds. -- DRAFT of the first of a series of nine - please READ and REVIEW any detailsFantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 9 - Words: 8,306 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-29-09 - Published: 8-29-099. Dreamcaught » reviewsJane gets caught inside a dream and, with the help of the friends she makes there, saves the dream-world. Edited and re-posted - only half the story up - PLEASE read and review! This is as complete as it's getting here. Working towards a book.Complete - Kids - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 12 - Words: 23,500 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-9-09 - Published: 7-9-0910. Peter's EyesWell... a young boy walking in the woods is captured by gnomes, who steal his eyes for their pretty color. Then some other stuff happens. Please review - still a work in progress.Kids - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,874 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-9-09 - Published: 7-9-0911. The Magical DayIsabelle has an unpleasantly magical day. Fairies are not nice.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,764 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-9-09 - Published: 7-9-0912. My Name Is reviewsA poem about identity alone with nature - or something.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-14-09 - Published: 5-14-0913. Butoh OutdoorsI'm not an avant-garde-art sort of person at all, but still it inspires poetry. Here is one of the poems. What do you think?General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-14-09 - Published: 5-14-0914. Eleanor Armstrong's SongA poem about finding unexpected and forgotten skills and beauty. I'm not going to say who/what Eleanor is. Try and guess.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-3-09 - Published: 5-3-0915. April DaysI think this is a bit... environmentalist?Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-3-09 - Published: 5-3-0916. EasterAn Easter poem. Not sure if the category fits.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-3-09 - Published: 5-3-0917. Rainbow's Dream reviewsAnother Origal poem, Rainbow's dream, based off of a dream I had... the verses are headed by the numbers in Ketshien. Reviews are helpful, as I may write more of this.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-28-09 - Published: 3-28-0918. MonkeyMonkey reviewsWhat happens when my sister is given caffiene. I thought peoples might like trying to rant it out in one breath for fun like she did. I will add more of her nonsense into it as I get it written down.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-28-09 - Published: 3-28-0919. Where in the World reviewsA short little thing - will be re-written longer, with verses and places and interestingness. Well, who knows where they're going?General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Friendship/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-28-09 - Published: 3-28-0920. Riding Over the Universe reviewsDuring a labyrinth walk I found lullabies singing themselves in my mind... this is the result. Please read, and review if you can understand any of it.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-28-09 - Published: 3-28-0921. The White TowerThe young Warden of a small city overcomes her own setbacks trying to reach the only one who knows how to heal her world. For a short-story writing prompt; may re-write.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,169 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-28-09 - Published: 3-28-0922. Acrostic reviewsWhen you don't have anything to say - write a lame-but-funny acrostic. It's a gimmick. Everybody knows that gimmicks are cute. I like that word right now. Gimmick, gimmick, gimmick... I'm going to go curl up in a dark hole and die.Humor - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-6-09 - Published: 1-6-0923. Sarah's Rose reviewsAn acrostic about blooming roses... written for a girl I liked in high school...Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-17-08 - Published: 12-17-0824. DazzledanceNamed after a song on the Shanachie cd "When I Was Young", a collection of Irish children's songs. I had it in my head as I was knitting, and this is what came out of it.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-08 - Published: 12-17-0825. GertrudeOkay... so a friend told me to try Googling my name with assorted verbs, i.e. " Name does/eats/etc.". I used a childhood nickname - Gertrude. This is the rather disturbing poetic product thus far, after the results festered in my mind for a while...Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 315 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-2-08 - Published: 12-2-0826. ChildrenWhere are the children? Sometimes they can see how unreal reality is.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-24-08 - Published: 11-24-0827. Baba Nam Kevelam »A poem in chapters, put together after a kiirtan meditation. The mantra "Baba nam kevelam" - translates as "My most Beloved is the only One" says a kiirtan website; also "love is all there is", etc.: IN PROGRESS, please tell me if it makes any sense...Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Friendship - Chapters: 5 - Words: 796 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-24-08 - Published: 11-24-0828. Beauty in the Dust reviewsWell... beauty in the dust. Another small moment becomes a metaphor...Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-23-08 - Published: 11-23-0829. En Olthe The House reviewsA short prayerful poem from my fantasy world, Orikal, written in both Ketshiien and English.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-22-08 - Published: 11-22-0830. Going Exploring reviewsAnything can be anything when you've got two of you and imagination...Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-22-08 - Published: 11-22-0831. Night Flutes reviewsThe earth music in the night calls us out together.Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-22-08 - Published: 11-22-0832. Imaginary Friend reviewsWandering and wondering... and musing on what's what with a "friend"General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-22-08 - Published: 11-22-0833. Pomegranate reviewsA metaphor from the pomegranate anything will give rise to a metaphor if you stare at it long enough .General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-22-08 - Published: 11-22-0834. Rainbows reviewsI really don't know. Dreams? Living fully? Imagination? Art? What do you think?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-18-08 - Published: 11-18-0835. Me reviewsAn absence-of-love poem, that could go in Nature or Love, probably. Loneliness is made worse by winter... and it seems like everybody else has somebody.Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-18-08 - Published: 11-18-0836. Dead Tree, Winter SunsetThe first poem I wrote and kept. about the sky and skeleton of a tree outside my window.Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-18-08 - Published: 11-18-0837. Escape of the Idea reviewsWhen hit with writer's block... write a poem about writer's block.Complete - Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-18-08 - Published: 11-18-0838. CornfieldAutumn fades into the apparent emptiness of winter. Just wrote; might re-write.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-5-08 - Published: 11-5-0839. WildriseNot sure how to categorize. About that amazing feeling, of being wild and alive and barefoot in wet grass... see if you can feel it from it...Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-5-08 - Published: 11-5-0840. RivertimeAnother river poem... thinking of music and nature and life. I was probably listening to Enya when I wrote it but then again I often am.Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-5-08 - Published: 11-5-0841. HereAbout starting into the unknown future... written in all of two seconds, so rather unimpressive, I think; see what you think...Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-5-08 - Published: 11-5-0842. Jardin de Ensueños reviewsUna poema de una niña sola. Please excuse my bad Spanish.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - Spanish - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-26-08 - Published: 10-26-0843. The Fairy RingNo thanks, no sandwich for me, off to dance with the fairies.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 494 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-26-08 - Published: 10-26-0844. Mirror MindNot sure what this is. I mean it when I say I don't understand myself half the time...Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-26-08 - Published: 10-26-0845. Mi Noche Hermosa My Beautiful NightA love poem for the personified night, in Spanish and English.Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - Spanish - Supernatural/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 402 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-26-08 - Published: 10-26-0846. Star HouseFor one of those nights where you can't sleep for thinking.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-26-08 - Published: 10-26-0847. HopeAbout the returning of hope.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-26-08 - Published: 10-26-0848. HeartwordsA love poem.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 206 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-26-08 - Published: 10-26-0849. Pebble in a StreambedRemembering mountain streams, got carried away by haiku form. Please excuse bad Japanese...Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-26-08 - Published: 10-26-08
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