1. Coincidental
this is a work of fiction. you're not in it. sorry. Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-3-08 - Published: 8-3-08 2. Absolution reviews
Listen-if you stand on the edge of the abyss and look down the skulls grin back out of the blackblack depths of oblivion as if to say here we are look where it's oh-so-much-better but here on earth watching we too have nirvana (thirty-seven fifty per mont Politics - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 454 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-1-06 - Published: 7-1-06 3. Fickle reviews
A passing fad . . . General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 27 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-20-06 - Published: 5-20-06 4. Benevolent Design reviews
Did Gaia turn to Venus one morning, and ask: "Does the crust make me look fat? I'm feeling a little round these days, I must confess." General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 4-11-06 - Published: 4-11-06 5. An Infinitive reviews
last night I dreamed my bed was out to sea, a one-man four-poster pirate ship twisting into Escherspace . . . General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 3-4-06 - Published: 3-4-06 6. Reflection reviews
. . . and I might have answered but it's hard to remember because I was wondering whether swearing in literature could be considered a form of ART (after all, ContemporaryArt is undefined) . . . General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-23-06 - Published: 1-23-06 7. The Writer's Attic, Issue 14 reviews
In this issue: the epistolary novel, the intrusive author, and not another guide to Narnia . . . Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,542 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-31-05 - Published: 10-31-05 8. The Writer's Attic, Issue 13 reviews
In this issue: I takes on he, she and it (and maybe even you) . . . points of view, plus a very brief word on democracy. Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,744 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-17-05 - Published: 9-17-05 9. The Writer's State reviews
for a span of years the mead of poetry sustained him but as middle age approached doubt crept in and late nights he asked the sky why people were evil and if the mkgandhis did not have effect then how could clark kent hope to save the world from itself? General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-3-05 - Published: 9-3-05 10. Cycle reviews
some mornings she wakes up trying to recall the night's epiphany, the climactic sense of alliswell and humanityiwillsaveyou although the means to do so sadly are lacking Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-1-05 - Published: 9-1-05 11. The Writer's Attic, Issue 12 reviews
In this issue: creating magic for a fantasy world, magic realism, and evolution (Yes, the column upload is still broken. Sorry.) Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,315 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 7-31-05 - Published: 7-31-05 12. The Writer's Attic, Issue 11 reviews
Here's issue 11 of the Writer's Attic until the column upload gets fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience. Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,266 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 7-2-05 - Published: 7-2-05 13. The Shoebox reviews
She's free that morning, with the shoebox under her arm, and because she knows it better than she knows him, she doesn't think she'll be coming back anytime soon. General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,984 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 6-28-05 - Published: 6-28-05 14. Wings » reviews
Anything with wings is different General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 295 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 5-30-05 - Published: 5-11-05 15. The Evolution reviews
And just the other day someone said that if there really was an intelligent designer and the universe didn't just bigbanglookhereiam then they probably would have given Kansas a better board of education. Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 200 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 5-10-05 - Published: 5-10-05 16. Sunrise reviews
They decided simply a long time ago that caffeine was for lovers and others who considered the day worth staying awake for . . . Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 3-6-05 - Published: 3-6-05 17. Monster reviews
Like the terrified watchers at the freak shows that went out of fashion with The Elephant Man . . . (written late night/early morning, somewhat odd. Title suggestions welcome) General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 3-2-05 - Published: 3-2-05 18. Tristesse reviews
A creative nonfiction piece I wrote a few months ago. Deals with some of my experiences during one of the less pleasant times in my life, more as brief glimpses and memories than narrative. Constructed around a piece I was playing on the piano. General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,009 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 10-24-04 - Published: 10-19-04 19. The Power of Language reviews
My goal was to get across a somewhat complicated sentiment using fairly simple language and loose grammar - this poem came out of several different journal entries and some thoughts I had after a friend's death. One must admit - existence is rather futil Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 717 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 10-24-04 - Published: 8-1-04 20. Night Walker » reviews
Rowena is Storms blood . . . hunter and healer combined, a lonely destiny. But when a strange vampire suddenly discovers her name . . . and her home, everything she holds for unchanging seems suddenly to warp and merge. Life's constant is change, and sh Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Drama - Chapters: 6 - Words: 9,681 - Reviews: 21 - Updated: 10-22-04 - Published: 6-4-03 21. We Will Not Be the Sun reviews
Another form poem, this time a villanelle, once again explained inside. It's a tad Shakespeare-ish, except not HALF so good, because it's almost impossible not to go high-brow with this form. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 346 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-31-04 - Published: 5-31-04 22. Slice reviews
A slice of life - five women playing cards around a kitchen table, wearing masks on their faces and hiding tears. This is a type of form poem called a sestina, which is explained inside. It's complicated, but fun to try out. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 416 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 5-31-04 - Published: 5-31-04 23. Fünfzehn reviews
All literature classes do something that is known, commonly, as beating the poem - i.e. overanalysis. This one is sort of tongue-in-cheek, about a short German story called Funfzehn Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 288 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 4-13-04 - Published: 4-13-04 24. The Best Laid Plans reviews
We all look for Ithaca . . . but we don't always realize how to find it, or what we are looking for . . . the world makes a mockery of the best-laid plans. Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 361 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 3-6-04 - Published: 3-6-04 25. A Situation Developed reviews
Another English assignment - a found poem, consisting entirely of sentences and passages lifted from primary sources. About the Vietnam war experience for many. War - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 469 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-23-04 - Published: 2-23-04 26. End the War! reviews
A parody of Poe's "The Raven" - an English assignment that turned suddenly and sinisterly anti-war . . . Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 320 - Reviews: 34 - Updated: 9-30-03 - Published: 9-30-03 27. Rebirth reviews
And seeing him, she takes his hand, in time for the world to begin again . . . Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-30-03 - Published: 7-30-03 28. If the Truth Be Told reviews
In my mind there were only thoughts, and in my sky there were only stars, and out among them spread my consciousness, grasping and wondering at each new light. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 7-30-03 - Published: 7-30-03 29. The Medium reviews
I know what I would be, given the chance . . . but it is not meant to be . . . Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-27-03 - Published: 7-27-03 30. Around the Bend reviews
Six people, six verses, six stories. This ought to have been inspired by a good bout of people-watching, but sadly I was just lying in bed unable to sleep. Trying to remember that story I dreamed last night . . . ah me. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 256 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-27-03 - Published: 7-27-03 31. Shadowscape reviews
I didn't know I was going to write this until I sat down and did, but I'm quite pleased with the results. This is my shadow poem . . . I challenge you to find a line in it that does not have the word 'shadow' in it . . . Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 20 - Updated: 7-12-03 - Published: 7-12-03 32. Fire and Ice » reviews
The time is drawing close . . . two young people will arise, the mages of fire and ice, to draw together the destiny of the torn land of Elia. Whether they will tear it apart or bring it back together . . . time can only tell. LIKELY DISCONTINUED Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,006 - Reviews: 32 - Updated: 7-4-03 - Published: 7-4-03 33. Halo on the Horns reviews
What brings the devil to your door tonight? Evil never sleeps . . . open up the door, he'll be waiting out there (revised 02/06/2005 - the first four verses are completely different) Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 305 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 6-4-03 - Published: 6-4-03 34. White Dragon reviews
I'm not so sure what this is about . . . the refrain seems to have nothing to do with the verse. Playing it cool, playing the fool. White dragon, I think she's fading out . . . Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-30-03 - Published: 4-30-03 35. Patchwork Saviour reviews
He's your patchwork saviour, but he's falling apart at the seams . . . (revised 02.05.2005 - refrain is similar, verses are completely different) Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 247 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 4-30-03 - Published: 4-30-03 36. Analyst reviews
You tumbled, smiling, pleased with the loss of control, to fall at my feet in a beautiful daze - lost in the murky depths of your own mind (revised 12/2004) General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 163 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-22-03 - Published: 4-22-03 37. Chron, Ferryman Without an A reviews
Redone 02.2005, and is pretty much unrecognizable. Got rid of obscure references - mainly it's musing on Charon and his role as ferryman Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 163 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-8-03 - Published: 3-8-03 38. Cage Of Nails reviews
We all build walls around ourselves - some of us just do not notice until we have fenced ourselves in irreversably Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 3-8-03 - Published: 3-8-03 39. Food For Thought » reviews
These are bits and pieces of stories that I found when I was cleaning out my drawer. If you like completeness, read at your own risk. Some of these may never be worked on, others will be finished. General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 7 - Words: 6,535 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-31-02 - Published: 12-30-02 40. The Isolationist Manifesto reviews
Musings on achieving world peace. Light humour, I suppose, although it's meant to be serious. A cynical look at the world we are creating for ourselves. (Note: I might rework this - I still like the idea, but it's poorly written) Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 864 - Reviews: 28 - Updated: 12-27-02 - Published: 12-27-02 41. Games of the Knife reviews
She was some kind of teenage messiah. He thought she was crazy. But it didn't change the fact that she'd hired him . . . to kill her. Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 610 - Reviews: 87 - Updated: 5-28-02 - Published: 3-28-02 42. Anderael's Daughter reviews
Hecate Anderle has never known where she came from - never known anything but her name. But when a war begins, and Hecate is summoned to the forefront, she begins to realize that she's not just any orphan . . . and her name may hold the key to her past Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,353 - Reviews: 45 - Updated: 5-28-02 - Published: 8-26-01 |
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