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1. The Interim Stage reviews

On learning to walk the dog alone again

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-24-12 - Complete

2. A Flake of your Life

A novel opening, done for my Creative Writing class: prologue and first chapter exploring family relationships in the context of the mother's ill-defined feelings for an old family friend. The title is based on the Leonard Cohen song Famous Blue Raincoat

Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Family/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,645 - Published: 7-2-11

3. Ashes of Roses reviews

A short story written for my Creative Writing class, exploring the elements that make up traditional fairy tales, and centring on the theme of roses.

Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,195 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-2-11 - Complete

4. Sketching

Flash fiction, 290 words. 'Sometimes it is best not to look too closely.'

Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 298 - Published: 5-25-11 - Complete

5. Lovesick reviews

Now who would invent a word like that?

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-16-10 - Complete

6. Changing Times reviews

And now- I don't know what you want-

Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 214 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-17-10 - Complete

7. Dream Work

She comes in the night - the nightmare - and sits on your chest.

Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Horror/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Published: 5-16-10 - Complete

8. Family Matters » reviews

April 1912. The sinking of the Titanic has its effect on a group of inhabitants of the Manchester area, but they must concentrate first on various other issues in their lives: business and marriage, scandalous novels and bareback horserides.

Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 18 - Words: 26,931 - Reviews: 31 - Updated: 5-5-10 - Published: 7-29-09

9. In Defiance of Analysis

Only now can I express my anger.

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Published: 5-2-10 - Complete

10. Mea Culpa

Forgive me, Mother, for I have sinned.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Published: 5-1-10 - Complete

11. The Rector's Daughters: Verity part III » reviews

Part 3 of the Verity-series. Miss Cumpton's relatives have invited her fiancé, Mr. Coningham, to visit the parsonage at S-. He is so charmed with the town that he does not hesitate to interfere when a mystery takes possession of it...

Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Crime - Chapters: 10 - Words: 11,700 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-24-10 - Published: 2-18-09

12. Mary Banks: a Victorian life » reviews

Based on the relationship between Thackeray and Brontë in the late 1840s. I've tried to recreate the atmosphere of the novels of my favourite Victorian authors. Mary and Frederick Banks come to London following the publication of Fred's novel.

Fiction: Historical - Rated: K - English - Romance/Family - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,934 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-23-10 - Published: 1-27-09

13. To Bill, re: CXLI reviews

Written for my poetry class, this is the Muse's response to Shakespeare's Sonnet CXLI, 'In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes'.

Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Parody/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-17-10 - Complete

14. A Portrait of my Grandmother When Young

Sonnet, mock-Shakespeare. Inspired by XIX, 'Devouring Time'.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Published: 3-7-10 - Complete

15. I've lost that sweet feel of emotion reviews

A short, mirroring piece I did ages ago, after reading too much Keats.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-9-10 - Complete

16. Brief Companionship reviews

We should have passed each other by the lamp post...

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-9-10 - Complete

17. Celebrating the Scop reviews

Not exactly a song - rather a piece of verse in the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition, celebrating the poet chroniclers of the German heroic age. Written for my Old English course.

Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-19-09 - Complete

18. Sinistra reviews

After years of war, hunchbacked Sir John has made peace with the Dir tribe; the King presents his new-born son as 'a child of the Peace'. When Lady Gloria leaves the baby alone for a moment, it is stolen away. First attempt at a knights-and-ladies story

Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,142 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-4-09

19. Solitude reviews

Such a tranquil place

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-30-09 - Complete

20. Romsey reviews

I took a country walk today

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-28-09 - Complete

21. The Suicidalist » reviews

A translation into English of my favourite Dutch poem, 'De Zelfmoordenaar' by 19th century poet Piet Paaltjens.

Poetry: Humor - Rated: T - English - Horror/Parody - Chapters: 2 - Words: 774 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-10-09 - Complete

22. Ode to the IB English A1 Reading List reviews

An elegy in six stanzas, rendered all the more awkward by its tortuous rhyme scheme and the fact that no word in the English language actually rhymes with 'English'. A joke present for my teacher

Poetry: School - Rated: T - English - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 419 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-10-09 - Complete

23. An Idyll reviews

A confrontation with reality where it is not wanted.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 245 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-30-09 - Complete

24. Suburban Fairytale reviews

Do you ever ask yourself/ How many of those picture-perfect people/ Are unhappy?

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Parody/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 266 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-30-09 - Complete

25. Lily » reviews

1921. William Horton, a painter gone blind, wastes away his days in a sanatorium in the French Pyrenees until Lady Alice Forsythe drives her Silver Ghost into his life to transcribe his war experiences - but her questions tend in quite another direction..

Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Tragedy - Chapters: 5 - Words: 10,921 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 7-28-09 - Published: 7-16-09 - Complete

26. Singing in the Streets reviews

I never dared - You did.

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-18-09 - Complete

27. Number 7 reviews

A rant about nonchalant discrimination, esp. sexism - I was feeling rather world-weary when I wrote this, so it's more disillusioned than is common for me. Rated M for language: I shocked even myself :-P

Poetry: General - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-18-09 - Complete

28. Anger reviews

I don't often feel this way...

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 184 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-11-09 - Complete

29. Libertame reviews

A bit of dramatic randomness written in fifteen minutes.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-5-09 - Complete

30. Intruding reviews

About intruding on my grandmother and her memories.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-11-09 - Complete

31. The Vulnerable reviews

Yes, they do attract us.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 225 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 2-5-09 - Complete

32. The Heir reviews

A Regency-style joke. A Bond Street Beau inherits a crumbling estate, and ventures forth to inspect it.

Fiction: Historical - Rated: K - English - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 626 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 2-1-09 - Complete

33. Mijn Kloon

I wrote this at the age of 14, on a set topic. What if, on our 18th birthday, we were given a clone - an exact replica of ourselves? What would we do with them? What would we use them for? What would they be like? My ideas.

Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - Dutch - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 501 - Published: 2-1-09 - Complete

34. A Winter's Tale reviews

A dark sort of faerie tale, inspired by Ursula le Guin's 'Orsinian Tales'. A travelling storyteller enthralls the daughter of the Lord of Haven with a tale of love and betrayal. The diction at times is a little over the top - forgive my 12-year-old self

Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,340 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-1-09 - Complete

35. Bath Ways: sequel to Verity Fair » reviews

And it's the sequel to Verity Fair! Miss Cumpton has arrived at Bath, and alas, a mere week after the recent unpleasantness at the Wildwood Flower Inn, it transpires that Bath would be a safer place without her! The quest for 5,000 a year continues

Fiction: Historical - Rated: K - English - Romance/Crime - Chapters: 10 - Words: 12,833 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-1-09 - Published: 1-29-09 - Complete

36. Verity Fair: a Regency romance in 10 chapters » reviews

A young girl is taken to Bath by her aunt and uncle, obliged to find herself a fiancé with an income of at least 5,000 pounds per annum to his name. Unfortunately, on dark and rainy nights, the public stage is not always a safe conveyance...

Fiction: Historical - Rated: K - English - Romance/Crime - Chapters: 10 - Words: 14,468 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 2-1-09 - Published: 1-29-09 - Complete

37. La nuit de St Nicolas

A little boy describes his tragic experiences on a St Nicholas holiday in 1950s Holland. St Nicholas, celebrated on the 5th of December, is the Dutch equivalent of Santa, giving out presents to children if they have been good.

Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - French - Drama/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 910 - Published: 1-29-09 - Complete

38. C'était mardi reviews

A little bit of silliness written for French class... about how too much maths can make you imagine the oddest things in dark forests :-P

Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - French - Supernatural/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,080 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-29-09 - Complete

39. In de Geest Reist men het Meest reviews

A man is seized by an itch to go travelling. The title was provided by my Dutch teacher when I wrote this as a school assignment some five years ago. I had fun writing it, so I hope you'll enjoy reading it.

Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: K - Dutch - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 489 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-27-09 - Complete

40. You've made your home inside my mind reviews

I'm still experimenting with poetry, so bear with me here... I've been reading a lot of Atwood and Boland lately, and now I'm discovering that free verse works! Please tell me what you think.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 346 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1-27-09 - Complete