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since: 09-26-05, id: 495688
country: United States
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Author has written 58 stories for General, General, Fantasy, Love, Family, Romance, Life, Spiritual, and Friendship.

Don't swing too hard, you'll fall.


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1. almost but not quite reviews
the feeling tight, rising, stretched like a nervous rubber-band Won’t go away.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 403 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-13-09 - Published: 9-13-09
2. inventory
It’s like watching a stranger pull a magic trick: life happens in the blink of an eye. And no matter how hard you try to figure it out - play it forward, rewind, slow-motion - there’s no telling the how or the why.
Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 481 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-3-09 - Published: 9-3-09
3. Dry reviews
And again -- Nothing.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 245 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-8-09 - Published: 7-8-09
4. unattainable » reviews
those snapshots of life you'll never grasp, but dream after anyways.
Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 354 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-1-09 - Published: 11-4-07
5. Bee reviews
This afternoon I saw a bee collide with a brick wall.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-14-09 - Published: 3-14-09
6. Popstar reviews
But didn’t you ever dream, too?
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 446 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-8-09 - Published: 2-8-09
7. Lost in Summer reviews
And just like that, it was gone.
Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 357 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 5-20-08 - Published: 4-15-07
8. banana split reality reviews
still I sit in this technicolor puddle.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-20-08 - Published: 5-20-08
9. silver spoons reviews
Return to a blackandwhite morning, where silver spoons spell out the moon.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-9-08 - Published: 1-9-08
10. nonexistences reviews
and sometimes there’s no help wondering if we’re better left in this perfect realm of disillusions, or should we shatter and let reality bleed in?
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 293 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-21-07 - Published: 10-21-07
11. wet firecrackers reviews
Everyone's at home, worn out, after these big explosions.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 213 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-19-07 - Published: 10-19-07
12. come back to where you belong reviews
even when these footsteps are long gone.
Spiritual - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-11-07 - Published: 9-11-07
13. Eve reviews
My heart springs up like a flaming weed. panic
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-15-07 - Published: 8-15-07
14. Early Moon reviews
If the pool's so shallow, why am I still drowning?
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 1-8-07 - Published: 1-8-07
15. 7 jazz reviews
All I wanted.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 284 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-5-07 - Published: 1-5-07
16. Lights Out reviews
And it was kind of sweet, too, the way her lips were insincere.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-5-07 - Published: 1-5-07
17. Honey reviews
You, with the sweet rust smile.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-5-07 - Published: 1-5-07
18. Crow's Feet reviews
Growing in between the lichen looks and the cultivated smile, always there.
Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-7-06 - Published: 11-7-06
19. 500 miles reviews
Clotted dreams: a green disappointment, indigo defeat.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 180 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-7-06 - Published: 11-7-06
20. When She Cries » reviews
It was a day in April when I found her.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 10 - Words: 7,717 - Reviews: 34 - Updated: 10-17-06 - Published: 1-13-06
21. Blue Secrets reviews
Quietly, so he won't wake her. Careful, so she won't stir. Tomorrow morning, he won't be there anymore.
Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 456 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-21-06 - Published: 9-21-06
22. The Winter Rush reviews
Caught in the dream-catcher that you won't let go.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-4-06 - Published: 8-4-06
23. Caught reviews
The portrait of desperation.
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-23-06 - Published: 7-23-06
24. Ghosting reviews
Falling down the lane.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 7-3-06 - Published: 7-3-06
25. Our Acoustic Scream reviews
Beyond the reach of common sense and good judgement.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 207 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-14-06 - Published: 6-14-06
26. Polyp reviews
We forget there are such things as heroes.
Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-14-06 - Published: 6-14-06
27. Dregs reviews
What's left over is you, the missing piece.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-31-06 - Published: 5-31-06
28. Strain reviews
Fantasy's too far away for us to reach, let's explode-
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 333 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-1-06 - Published: 5-1-06
29. Recoil reviews
I see the ravenous look in your eyes, and I am afraid.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 210 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 5-1-06 - Published: 5-1-06
30. Purple Sweaters reviews
I love this wrecked scenery, and so do you.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-20-06 - Published: 4-20-06
31. I will pretend reviews
and I hope you won't try to stop me.
Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 4-20-06 - Published: 4-20-06
32. Confessions of reviews
It's time to confess.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 4-10-06 - Published: 4-10-06
33. Freshly reviews
I saw the cool man today.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-10-06 - Published: 4-10-06
34. Shore reviews
You left me on the bottom to wake up all alone.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 357 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-3-06 - Published: 4-3-06
35. Thrift store reviews
My search is never-ending.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 3-22-06 - Published: 3-22-06
36. Greenhouse Effect reviews
My ears squeak in tune to verdant ruckus.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 3-17-06 - Published: 3-17-06
37. Automatic Flower reviews
This automatic flower runs on batteries.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 3-10-06 - Published: 3-10-06
38. Gazebo reviews
We are astronauts falling after silly things.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 3-1-06 - Published: 3-1-06
39. Martian reviews
Those craggy Martian raptors sure bite hard.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 2-28-06 - Published: 2-28-06
40. Paste reviews
Of brushing teeth and morning ritual.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 2-27-06 - Published: 2-27-06
41. Jam reviews
When the smiles have gone sour, we forget who we are.
Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-17-06 - Published: 2-17-06
42. Wall You In reviews
Not knowing you're in prison is the best time of all.
Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-16-06 - Published: 2-16-06
43. Of Hands reviews
My brother's fingers are music.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-10-06 - Published: 2-10-06
44. Grace from the Raven reviews
The red is not blood if the death is not grace.
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 608 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-27-06 - Published: 1-27-06
45. Pocahontas reviews
I fall back into the arms of an Indian princess. She tells me, "I told you so."
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 219 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-24-06 - Published: 1-24-06
46. Nightfall reviews
I am the daugher of nightfall.
Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 274 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-29-05 - Published: 12-29-05
47. Odors Of reviews
Arouse the senses. It's time for you to smell the roses.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-13-05 - Published: 12-13-05
48. Awake, But Not Awaken reviews
Tonight is the night, I tell myself. I sleep with my eyes open.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 792 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-8-05 - Published: 12-8-05
49. The Window reviews
Accusation is the bitterest when you find that the fault was yours, after all.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 749 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-13-05 - Published: 11-13-05
50. Old Lines reviews
He wonders when change became obselete, but does not push the boundaries.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 461 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-7-05 - Published: 11-7-05
51. Gasoline reviews
She cries tears of flame.
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-28-05 - Published: 10-28-05
52. Disentangle reviews
All’s well that ends well, she thinks, and dies. The child inside stops dancing and dies, too, with a smile.
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,023 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-26-05 - Published: 10-26-05
53. Hysteria reviews
On stormy nights, the house still screams without her.
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,033 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-14-05 - Published: 10-14-05
54. Puddles reviews
When it rains, it doesn't just rain.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 14 - Updated: 10-13-05 - Published: 10-13-05
55. Sheets and Wings reviews
He was a lifetime too late.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 751 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 10-8-05 - Published: 10-8-05
56. Somewhere Only We Know reviews
It is peaceful here, where the memories lay dead and dying.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 417 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-8-05 - Published: 10-8-05
57. Masterpiece reviews
It came, and the earth rumbled with its great purring footsteps. The end was coming.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 287 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-6-05 - Published: 10-6-05
58. Mona Lisa Smile reviews
Realizing is all it takes to close the door.
General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 916 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-30-05 - Published: 9-30-05
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