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1. Postcards from the Jungle reviews

Hank would go to Vietnam willingly if it meant not having to deal with loving somebody he shouldn't every day. Unrequited male/male

Fiction: Historical - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,012 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-4-11 - Complete

2. In Pools of Empty Winter

A woman struggles to adhere to traditional Japanese codes of honor. Feedback on the final section would be appreciated.

Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,521 - Published: 2-12-11 - Complete

3. Twist reviews

A child learns to cope with danger and their own mortality. Very short. Autobiographical.

Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 652 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-22-11 - Complete

4. The Acquired Skill of Living

I watched then as his head slammed into the steering wheel, and saw the blood left there, and felt the impact as he was tossed into me so the blood on his head stained my dress. Oh my God, I said, oh my God." A major revision of another story of mine.

Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 998 - Published: 11-7-10 - Complete

5. Genesis

A love story told in the style of Genesis. A very quick read.

Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 473 - Published: 11-7-10 - Complete

6. Six Small Words » reviews

A collection of stories that are all six words in length. No more, no less. In progress.

Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 13 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-26-10

7. Fifty »

A collection of unrelated 50-word stories. In progress. Rated T for dark themes.

Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 102 - Published: 10-22-10

8. My Daughter, Who Would Have Been Louisa reviews

A short piece about grief in the wake of losing a child at birth.

Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 626 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-27-10

9. How to Bee Happy reviews

A quick, jaunty little thing about a man looking for a sign to tell him if he is going to hell after replacing the ashes in the urn of his girlfriend's mother with the ashes of roast chicken. Rated for the occasional F-bomb.

Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 585 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-18-10 - Complete

10. In the River Neranjara reviews

4 lines, free verse. -Gold bowls that swim upstream is a reference to the Buddha, who, before fasting and achieving enlightenment, ate from a gold bowl and threw the bowl in the River Neranjara, saying that if it went upstream he'd be enlightened. It did

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-31-10 - Complete

11. Overboard

This piece, which is about a novice sailor who is thrown overboard and consumed by a beast, is told in the style of a fable.

Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,565 - Published: 7-5-10 - Complete

12. A Discovery reviews

The gates to hell are found outside a small American town.

Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,996 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-5-10 - Complete

13. Braids

A mother who sees her daughter as a child still, and her daughter, a woman who can not mature enough to learn to let go. Based on study of Andrew Wyeth's portrait, "Braids".

Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 868 - Published: 7-5-10 - Complete

14. Zenith reviews

Trapped on a mountain, a man mistakes his starving companion's hunger for love. WARNING: Cannibalism portrayed vividly

Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,118 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-5-10 - Complete

15. The Way Things Are Now reviews

A girl loses her love to death by monotony.

Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 522 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-1-10 - Complete

16. Thr Rush of Tide reviews

A teenage girl seeks escape from her life in the open ocean, but underestimates the power of the sea.

Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,174 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-1-10 - Complete

17. The Rot of Endless Space reviews

Short, metaphorical piece about the way the void of space tears at a man.

Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 342 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-1-10 - Complete

18. Familiar Blood reviews

A woman tries to explain her grief over the death of a father she did not love.

Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 511 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-1-10 - Complete

19. The Way Hair Gets When It's Underwater reviews

A crab boat drags up a dead teenager, and one member of the crew finds himself strangely attracted to the rotting corpse of this beautiful girl that he has never met. The story of his twisted descent into unrequited romance.

Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,257 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-1-10 - Complete