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| Maria Patenaude |
Author has written 20 stories for Love, Romance, Friendship, Family, Fantasy, Life, General, Play, and Young Adult. I've been writing for most of my life, but writing seriously since I was 14 years old (1994, for the curious). I would write poems on any scrap of paper I happened to have with me at the time, including receipts, napkins, and (most of all) my Math notebook (which never seemed to be useful for much else, lol). I generally write novels (Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Romance, and a crazy mixture of all of these genres), but am wary of putting them out in the open since I plan on publishing them. I'm breaking my own rules by posting Either Side of the TV Light, so reviews on that would be more awesome than words can say. Aside from general critique, what I really want to know is this: Can you relate to my work? Have you been through the same things? How weird am I really? I have a degree in Music and Education, but I'm currently not pursuing that career. Truth is, I don't intend to. I was an Opera singer about a million years ago; a Lyric Soprano, but I got sick and that was that. Now I'm doing kind of a ghetto version of the "Walden" thing: I'm a hermit/writer. I read and write more than I eat or sleep. I'm a total tech head, a bit of a gamer chick, a bit of a Goth, a bit bohemian, and I have a quirky memory for the Random and Obscure. Side note: I'm bilingual, so some of my work is in Spanish. For some reason my best stories are always the ones I write in English, but my best poems are always in Spanish. They don't call them Romance languages for nothing! If anyone ever needs help with Spanish for their own work, feel free to message me. I also moderate Dark Feathers, a forum here on FP for fans/writers of Gothic poetry. Come, join us! Follow me on:
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1. Either Side of the TV Light » reviewsWhen Morgan Fay falls in love with a character in a movie, she uses him as an escape from her own harsh life. As her world crumbles, she clings to him for survival... only to discover that the boy on her TV screen is not who he seems. Or is he? *M-rated.*Young Adult - Fiction Rated: M - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Chapters: 10 - Words: 23,867 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 11-19-09 - Published: 9-24-092. Tear Off Your Wings reviewsShort script. A monologue about love, loss, and people who don't fit the norm.Complete - Play - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 830 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-12-09 - Published: 9-12-093. I Cannot Love As Others Do reviewsA drabble. Musings on life, envy, and love... through the eyes of a villain. Written for the Way of Write "Villain Monologue Challenge", 2005.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 459 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-1-09 - Published: 9-1-094. Ultimo Adiós reviewsUna playa de noche. Una despedida. Un poema sobre un amor efímero.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - Spanish - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 387 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-29-09 - Published: 8-29-095. How Clearly I See With My Eyes Closed reviewsA poem about regret.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-096. To Be Different reviewsA stream-of-consciousness poem about me, from the perspective of a stranger.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: M - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-097. The Butterfly Girl reviewsA poem of beauty, loss, and death.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 208 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-098. Rollercoaster reviewsA poem dedicated to a person who never lived, and therefore never died. For Darrin, who doesn't exist.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 330 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-099. Ode to the Puerto Rican GhettoA snapshot of life in my neighborhood in Puerto Rico. Heavy use of swear words. NSFW.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: M - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 982 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0910. Your Mark reviewsMusings on the intimacy of my first tattoo.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0911. A Lock I Can No Longer Find reviewsA poem inspired by one sentence: "I have a key to a lock I can no longer find." For Apollo, the friend whose words I borrowed.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 59 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0912. Jim Casey's Child reviewsA short story based on a strange dream. In a world where society has regressed, a young girl is sentenced to public execution by a man's dying words.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,041 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0913. My First Thought reviewsPoem for A.V.C. A good friend, but a stone wall.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0914. Until We Meet Again reviewsA poem of hatred. For my father.Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - Family/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0915. The Colours of Your Voice reviewsA poem about a man I've loved since childhood. I can still sense him before I see him; can still find him in a crowd without searching. Knowing he is happy makes me feel whole. This poem is 11 years old.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 184 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0916. To Julio reviewsPoem. Julio Gallo was the next-to-eldest brother of my best friend Regina the eldest was Enrique, my first boyfriend . No one knows why Julio was murdered. The killer was never caught.Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Family/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0917. If I Die Before I WakePoem. For one of the best friends I ever had. He used to loan me philosophy books and share his coffee with me, and he gave some of the best advice in the world. I never told him how much I loved him.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0918. Murderous Love reviewsThis short story is about the time my father threatened to send me to a convent just to get me away from a boy. The rest is pure fiction; in real life the boy never loved me in return.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 497 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0919. Ghost of Love reviewsPoem written at age 16. This doesn't read like it was written by a girl that had never had a boyfriend, does it... It reads like I'd had my heart torn out and returned to me scarred and bleeding and full of nails.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-0920. Another Valentine's Day Alone reviewsThis is a poem I wrote at age 16 about my first unrequited love.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 8-23-09
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