| Vamps |
Author has written 58 stories for Young Adult, Life, Haiku, General, Nature, Friendship, Love, Religion, Family, Humor, Spiritual, Fantasy, Humor, and Horror. This account is mostly just going to be for my poetry, although if I've got any short stories, I'll probably add those as well. My poems and stories are generally either macabre (in one way or another), or environmental. Or both. Generally, they don't follow a formula or rhyme. I figure it's common knowledge if you're in the poetry section that you know they don't have to rhyme or follow a specific formula in order to be poetry, but just in case someone was looking around and has little experience with my sort of poetry, there ya go. :p I'm always happy to communicate with anyone who might want to be friends or just wants to talk about creative works or whatnot. So, if you want to IM me or e-mail me, go right ahead. :) E-mail me: cynicwench @ aol . com IMs: Yahoo: vampsicola Skype: inverted_raven Twitter: sobagrapes Facebook: facebook . com / mzmim | |||||||
1. The Reluctant CupidTony has to wear a bizarre costume while Nora and Jared don't even bother to pretend to contain their amusement.Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 450 - Published: 4-23-13 - Complete2. Allergic To Dignity?Tony is totally not crying! This is a tear-free zone, man! Jared can stuff his assumptions where the sun don't shine.Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 324 - Published: 4-20-13 - Complete3. Morning JayWhy can't the weather match the mood of significant life events in real life the way that it does in movies?Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 601 - Published: 4-19-13 - Complete4. Adventures in Dining reviewsTony's trying really hard to get his friend Jared to pay attention to something other than stuffing his face.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 269 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-17-13 - Complete5. Nightmare ClinicA man who is recovering from a motorcycle accident may be in a hospital that is more, or perhaps even less, than it seems.Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,442 - Published: 9-11-12 - Complete6. Waiting for Home reviewsA homeless young man waits for home by a park fountain.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,635 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-10-12 - Complete7. Children for Breakfast reviewsHey, when you get hungry enough... ;)Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Horror/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 27 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-9-12 - Complete8. Baited BreathWhat do you do when your new pet gets away and you can't catch him? Call for help and bait a trap, of course!Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Published: 9-8-12 - Complete9. Nighttime Gardening reviewsSometimes the best way to cover up a crime is the simplest way.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Horror/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-8-12 - Complete10. Neighbor for DinnerA very unconventional way of having your neighbor for dinner...quite literally.Poetry: Humor - Rated: T - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Published: 9-6-12 - Complete11. Liquid MourningDark and ugly things can happen even in nice, tranquil settings full of beauty. When they do, Grim is there to pick up what's left behind.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 50 - Published: 9-1-12 - Complete12. One Last Time reviewsSometimes in the end all we want is a little reassurance.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-6-12 - Complete13. Garden of Deathly Delight reviewsIf you happen upon this garden, you may end up a decoration yourself.Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-22-12 - Complete14. Fearsome ShadeLet it never be said that Grim doesn't feed his pets well.Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Published: 4-22-12 - Complete15. Rooftop RamblingSometimes people mistake hallucinations for reality, and then shout from the rooftops their experience. If you are very religious, this will probably make you angry...so click at your own risk as you've been warned.Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Published: 2-21-12 - Complete16. Deadly Portrait reviewsJust my idea of what the Grim Reaper would actually look like. Not your traditional skeleton.Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-20-12 - Complete17. The DawningIf Man refuses to heed the warnings before him then he will surely die.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Published: 2-20-12 - Complete18. Graveyard Dust reviewsEver heard that old saying that when you shiver it means someone in the future has just walked across your grave? Yeah...I've heard it too.Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-19-12 - Complete19. Grim's Marionettes reviewsGrim survey's a battlefield and admires his newest acquisitions.Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-18-12 - Complete20. A Toast to the DeadGrim holds a festival for the dead.Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Published: 2-18-12 - Complete21. Grim's Messengers reviewsGrim has a contract with the ravens, but it doesn't last forever. Note: I have a different interpretation of what the Grim Reaper looks like that isn't at all mainstream.Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-13-12 - Complete22. Red RiversVery, very morbid poem which most will find creepy in all likelihood despite the shortness of it. I put this under the life category because death is part of life and there was nowhere else to put it.Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Horror/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Published: 1-4-12 - Complete23. Valley of Opposites reviewsA poem about equality and how different or opposite isn't necessarily wrong, bad, or evil. Inspired by a single line in a Poe poem called The City in the Sea.Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-24-11 - Complete24. Haunted Hall » reviewsSometimes the hall of your memories can be dark and frightening.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Angst/Horror - Chapters: 2 - Words: 182 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-17-11 - Published: 4-16-1125. Left BehindSometimes, no matter what you do, you can't escape the fact that you've been left behind.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Published: 4-4-11 - Complete26. Devout Sinner reviewsBarabbas reflects on his life and the changes that have occurred within him one year and one month after Jesus died on the cross in his place.Fiction: Spiritual - Rated: T - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 811 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-26-11 - Complete27. Of Course They're Real reviewsCeres makes some figurines out of questionable materials and Gentry is appalled.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 427 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-6-11 - Complete28. Sly's Day OffSly feels as if he's wasting his day off doing this favor for Nora, but then decides to have 'fun' with his task.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 543 - Published: 2-5-11 - Complete29. Nostalgic PrisonSometimes, after our loved ones are gone, there are places we can never go again, things we can never see again, without immense pain. It isn't the bad memories that haunt us after a loved one leaves us, its the happy ones.Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Published: 12-24-10 - Complete30. Haunted MourningSometimes, even after the ceremony and traditions have been ended, we still cannot bring ourselves to let go of those we love.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Published: 12-24-10 - Complete31. December Rose reviewsSometimes life is cut short, before it even has time to bloom. And sometimes, there is never any good reason why.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-23-10 - Complete32. Bearer of the Light reviewsEven in death, sometimes the playful and protective light of our loved ones can shine through to remind us we are not alone.Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Family/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-22-10 - Complete33. Twisted Progress reviewsThe very nature of progress demands death. Death of someone, death of something. But, we must stop to remember sometimes that all life is there for a reason, and death is never without consequence. Especially in excess.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-22-10 - Complete34. Dearly Departed Song for the BrokenheartedA sad poem about what its like to lose someone and then be surrounded by images of them too vivid to let your wounded heart heal.Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Published: 12-21-10 - Complete35. Five Petals reviewsPlaying the game Loves Me, Loves Me Not can be fun, but sometimes it puts things in perspective when what you get from the flower is in reality not what you can ever have.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-16-10 - Complete36. Familiar reviewsInspired by my own little dog, Hunni. About how even animals can be waiting for you in the hereafter.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-16-10 - Complete37. Forbidden TasteA taste of forbidden love between two people whom society and circumstance say should never have fallen in love.Poetry: Love - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Published: 11-16-10 - Complete38. Lady of the Glen reviewsAbout how people often times refuse to see what is right under their noses, or take responsibility for their own actions or inactions. Especially when the environment is concerned.Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-16-10 - Complete39. Religious Right reviewsA look into how the Religious Right's attitude is these days, as I see it.Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Crime/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-8-10 - Complete40. Seasonal Beauty reviewsA look at the changing of the seasons.Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-8-10 - Complete41. Custom Made HellSometimes when we are in an abusive relationship, our fear keeps us as captive as if it were real iron bars.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Published: 10-19-10 - Complete42. The Snow QueenThe Snow Queen waits for a love she knows will never come.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Published: 10-19-10 - Complete43. Woman in the TreeA broken heart can sometimes make one feel as if there is only one recourse left.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Published: 10-19-10 - Complete44. Haphazard MourningSometimes, when you have too many feelings welling up inside of you, you just have to let it out. Even if that means destroying the things around you.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete45. Sublime DecayMy thoughts in poem-form on the Gulf oil spill and the role of humans within it, as well as a broader description of how I feel about the way people treat Nature in general.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete46. Tiny BlessingsThis was written for a Christian woman in my neighborhood who lost a pet whom she loved as much as a child.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete47. Nature ForsakenHumans do our best to take what we need from Earth and then forsake Her, as if She isn't the most important thing we've been given, denying that She needs our help.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete48. The Quiet ReapingHumans have always gotten their sustenance from Nature. However, in modern times, humans have taken Nature for granted. One day, we will have to reap what we've sown.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete49. The Moor & The Golden Thread reviewsThe golden thread of trust can be stronger than steel itself. But, at the same time, it can be lost in a mire of distrust and betrayal, and it doesn't take long to rot the golden thread in that muck.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete50. Recollection Avenue reviewsYou've heard of Memory Lane? This is Recollection Avenue.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete51. Happiness A MirageFor many, happiness is abundant or sporadic, but it's there. However, there are also many who feel that happiness is always elusive. A mirage, if you will.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete52. Beauteous DecadenceThe cycle of life, especially the bit about aging and dying, scares and frightens people. Unless, of course, it's the very earth going through these changes. Then it's beautiful, instead.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete53. Lonely Heart reviewsThe heart really can die if broken.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete54. Last Breath reviewsSomeone taking their last breath of life, and submitting to death as all things eventually do.Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete55. ShadowlandA look at life through the eyes of someone who has lost all hope.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 200 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete56. The DragonA look at the way humans destroy whatever they want, whatever they're afraid of, and in doing so destroy themselves.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 407 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete57. The Forest reviewsAn ironic look at global warming and the consequences of looking to religion for a safety net.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete58. Last Moments reviewsIn the point of view of a young man who has just had a serious car accident. These are his thoughts as he lies there on the pavement, listening to and seeing what is going on around him and realizing what has happened to him.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 532 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-18-10 - Complete