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since: 07-10-01, id: 91559, Profile Updated: 11-11-10
country: USA
Author has written 66 stories for General, Love, Fantasy, Humor, Life, Family, Play, Song, Friendship, Religion, School, Essay, and General.

I'm twenty-two, tired, and very fond of song and poetry. Summaries do not and will not make sense. My work is very personal, so be kind to it, although concrit is always welcome and entirely well received. Some of my writing also resides on FanFiction.Net under this same penname. Anything else you want to know, feel free to ask me via PM or e-mail; I'm usually fairly approachable.

11/11/10: I'm still using this account for posting short story; these stories are infrequent, at best, but need a home. I honestly haven't written a decent one in the last couple of years, hence why I'm only posting again now. Enjoy, I hope. I may even go back to posting poetry and song here.


1. Run
Self-sacrifice isn't always selfless, or without regret.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,291 - Published: 11-11-10
2. Rainbows and Ruin
Why is everything connected to you so ambivalent?
Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 210 - Published: 12-16-08 - Complete
3. You Volunteered reviews
I thought you knew better than to tell me things like that.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-16-08 - Complete
4. Half Moon? reviews
The sum of our relationship is wordplay.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-29-08 - Complete
5. Secret reviews
That's what writing is for, I'm reasonably sure. Sestina.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 290 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-29-08 - Complete
6. Spectrum Shift
I, at least, will never remember. Sonnet.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Published: 11-29-08 - Complete
7. Your Immortality
I'll never be done asking questions.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Published: 11-29-08 - Complete
8. Promises
Stagnation becomes us. Villanelle.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Published: 11-29-08 - Complete
9. CrossStitch
Long-term projects are always the best avoidance.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Published: 11-29-08 - Complete
10. PostMortem
And here I thought I was done with this mentality.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Published: 5-23-08 - Complete
11. Moiraes' Choir reviews
A talent of mine, or so it would seem. Sonnet.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-31-08 - Complete
12. Abandoned Structure reviews
What can I do now? I've run out of information. Sonnet.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-15-08 - Complete
13. Like the Night reviews
Is this a lie also? I never can tell. Sonnet.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-13-08 - Complete
14. Data reviews
Such a beautiful line. Sonnet.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-20-07 - Complete
15. Reality
And the metaphor returns. It means so much to me. Sonnet.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Published: 12-20-07 - Complete
16. Sisyphus
You're a liar. And so am I. Sonnet.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Published: 12-20-07 - Complete
17. For Want Of Me
Everything I do, everything I am, and all of it dangerous. Sonnet. Line 9 borrowed from Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Published: 12-16-07 - Complete
18. Waking Up reviews
Every night, every day. Sonnet.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-27-07 - Complete
19. Möbius Mortalis reviews
An essay written for school, but more meaningful for me than that.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,150 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-24-07 - Complete
20. The Poet Is Lying reviews
But don't we all?
Poetry: Song - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 351 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-17-07 - Complete
21. The End of You reviews
I'm finally finished.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-11-07 - Complete
22. Leaving Home reviews
The last of you, at last.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 315 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-8-07 - Complete
23. Lehrergedicht
For my Frau, who actually got to read it long ago.
Poetry: School - Rated: K - German - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Published: 2-16-07 - Complete
24. This Room reviews
Still emptying my head of you.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 382 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-5-07 - Complete
25. Preparations
It's nice to have forewarning.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 249 - Published: 12-4-06 - Complete
26. What Love Is reviews
Both of you, see what you've taught me.
Poetry: Song - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 414 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-13-06
27. Can't Let Go reviews
You're not qualified to judge me.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 289 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-25-06
28. Don't Walk Home reviews
Don't say that to me again.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 323 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-21-06
29. Sins of Silence reviews
Won't you leave me alone yet?
Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 233 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-21-06
30. The Last of This reviews
When you're taken from me. Sonnet.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-21-06
31. Melissa reviews
Will she care?
Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 313 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-11-06
32. Writing Is reviews
Otherwise, what's the point?
Poetry: Song - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-11-06
33. Tarnished reviews
So alike, aren't we?
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-31-06
34. Hurt Me reviews
It's not like me to be so direct...
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 213 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-31-06
35. Until reviews
Didn't you, though?
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 290 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-14-06
36. Stay With Me reviews
Share what I have.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-19-06
37. Impression reviews
Running through the possibilities.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 268 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-16-06
38. Orpheus reviews
And somehow you inspire me.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 354 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-31-06
39. Thank You
Hah! Finally.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Published: 3-15-06
40. Braving the Sacred reviews
I can't even look, I'm still afraid.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-23-05 - Complete
41. Karma Returning reviews
For MLN. You could have just hated me to begin with.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 401 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-5-05
42. Debt reviews
Love isn't free.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-5-05
43. China Doll reviews
Yours as always.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 516 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-5-05
44. Forget
Who do you think I am?
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 326 - Published: 3-16-05
45. To Weep For My Shadow reviews
Wow, I did it.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-23-04
46. Tales reviews
PG for swearing. A once-act, once-scene play that I wrote for a class. Takes place in a dungeon cell, between three men.
Fiction: Play - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,804 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-23-04
47. Karma reviews
You knew this would happen.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 355 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-23-04
48. In This Moment reviews
I love you enough. Sonnet.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-23-04
49. What Do I Know? reviews
Shakespearean sonnet. Written after I reflected on my poetry and realized how angsty I always am, and how little basis I usually have for it.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 2-26-04
50. Jagged reviews
Sonnet. There's no door; you can't come in.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-26-04
51. Red Ink reviews
What is ink made of?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1-23-04
52. That Was Me reviews
For Anne. May your phoenix be forever rogue.
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 11-22-03
53. Into The Earth reviews
Maybe while I'm alone with you, you'll tell me.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-12-03
54. Remember the Trees reviews
For my father.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-21-03
55. Fire reviews
Harrassment is all they came up with.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-21-03
56. In My Eyes reviews
A sonnet. I'm stuck here, aren't I?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-21-03
57. Jingle Bells, BrianStyle reviews
An amusing parody of 'Jingle Bells'; dedicated to Brian. First few lines tacitly borrowed from Weird Al.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 5-4-03
58. Eyes reviews
Who I have been, who I might be.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-16-03
59. When Love is Not Enough reviews
For Andy. Let me help.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 215 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-16-03
60. Nothing More reviews
Leaving you.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-16-03
61. Darkling reviews
Immortality means never having to say goodbye.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3-29-03
62. When I'm Gone reviews
Maudlin and pointless and purging.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 221 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-22-03
63. Tired reviews
Thoughts on someone...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 236 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-22-03
64. Unworthy reviews
Never lie to me again.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-1-02
65. Not For Me to Know reviews
Just a question I always wanted to ask...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-1-02
66. Broken Dances reviews
Written for George Harrison.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 1-7-02