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| Emma the Paradox |
Author has written 61 stories for Fantasy, Life, Nature, Love, Fable, Family, Essay, General, Friendship, Politics, General, and Romance. Breathe-in experience, Muriel Rukeyser | |||||||||||
1. Seasons RunningI was in love with summer for a long time.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 364 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-6-09 - Published: 1-6-092. SuggestionsLook for sunshine everywhere you go if you can’t find it, make it.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 244 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-27-08 - Published: 11-27-083. On Being a Stump, and Other Such Things reviewsThis is what it's like to be a stump: we have our ups and downs.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-19-08 - Published: 10-19-084. Thou Shalt Not Covet reviewsWe sprawled body against body, far too warm beneath an excess of blankets and our own pulsing human skin...Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-25-08 - Published: 8-25-085. Kissed by a Faerie reviewsWe didn’t need to speak because God gave us eyes.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,111 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-10-08 - Published: 8-10-086. Or Maybe CloudsWhen I think of you it is two grainy, green oceans mauling my lungs and my eyes and my tattered toes.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-31-08 - Published: 7-31-087. Study Break reviewsIt’s warm outside and the clouds smell like summer. “Come on!” you beg with childhood in your eyes. We titter; then you are sitting cross-legged in the grass and I am in your lap. Oh, gravity.'Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 406 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-23-08 - Published: 7-23-088. Attenuation reviewsIf I was very still and kept my heartbeat soft under my skin, sometimes I could hear the Forestfolk whispering things from between the blades of grass. It was from them that I first got the idea to visit the Cliff at night.' A Short StoryComplete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,397 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-21-08 - Published: 7-21-089. Quirky reviewsI leaned against my pillow. “Kiss me here so that I can think about it when I’m falling asleep tonight.”Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 302 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-21-08 - Published: 7-21-0810. For PeterFrom Wendy. Nether Netherland isn't quite the same without you, fireworks or not.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-5-08 - Published: 7-5-0811. The Suitor's Caution reviewsMonogamy is claustrophobic.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-1-08 - Published: 6-1-0812. NM reviewsStop acting like I’m some evil, repulsive temptress come to steal your lips against your wishes and with them your very soul—I get it. I disgust you. A/N: Please don't maul me for the "wrong" category. It feels like an essay to me.Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: M - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,151 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-23-08 - Published: 3-23-0813. Lost Meals in an African Sun reviewsI am the lioness and you are the beast.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-9-08 - Published: 3-9-0814. Chemicals on 14th Street reviewsI read somewhere that eating chocolate produces the same chemicals in your brain as kissing.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 543 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-17-08 - Published: 2-17-0815. Analogy of the AnimateIf they can't have anything else in common, at least they have this.Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-10-08 - Published: 2-10-0816. Tea Parties and Desert Mist reviewsAnd Wonderful Closets in the Back of My Throat.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 675 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-20-08 - Published: 1-20-0817. Just Give Me One More NightTrapped in an endless night of passion going no where fast... we've all been there. Under 'life,' not 'love'... and for good reason.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-8-07 - Published: 10-8-0718. Our Sacrilegious Sidewalk CracksThrough cracks in the sidewalk, I can see Your Lips...Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-2-07 - Published: 10-2-0719. The Alarm Clock Effect reviewsAn amusing take on the butterfly effect, inspired by a passage from the novel 'A Crack in the Line' by Michael Lawrence.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,129 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-14-07 - Published: 9-14-0720. Lady in White reviewsBased off of my friend's apocalyptic dream: in a world quickly fading, one woman holds open the door to life... right? [ONExSHOT]Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,733 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-19-07 - Published: 8-19-0721. The Flow reviewsThoughts flow through my pen, to the flesh of my pages, and from the pages, flow back in. Generally in a much more understandable manner. READ: Poetry helps me understand my own thoughts.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-19-07 - Published: 8-19-0722. Greenest Secrets“The earth has music for those who listen.” William ShakespeareComplete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-14-07 - Published: 7-14-0723. Remembrances reviewsI wrote this many months ago, but I still feel it today. Remembering the past is hard, especially when it's far more past than you ever thought it could be.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 273 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-13-07 - Published: 7-13-0724. The Distance of PrivacySometimes privacy is more distance than most can handle.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-2-07 - Published: 7-2-0725. A Dimness of the SoulThe places you find yourself are not always pleasent. Nor are they good for the soul.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-2-07 - Published: 7-2-0726. Warm Days reviewsAttraction for no reason whatsoever? Maybe it's the heat.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-2-07 - Published: 7-2-0727. Feeling, AnywayI let my mind wander, and it slightly unnerves me what things came out.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-26-07 - Published: 5-26-0728. Warmer Now reviewsIt's sad that he's pushed me so far away, but that's okay because it's sunny here, too.Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-23-07 - Published: 5-23-0729. An Act of Feeling to Thought reviewsDon't think too much about your poetry.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-16-07 - Published: 5-16-0730. Directions reviewsDraw me a map.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-27-07 - Published: 4-27-0731. Tell Me Where We Are reviewsI'm happy. And a little lost. That's it.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-18-07 - Published: 4-18-0732. ForgetfulIt's not just people that can forget, sometimes.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-18-07 - Published: 4-18-0733. Define 'Familiar'Sitting high up in the dark, dark cold brings forth memories and future thoughts, both of wish I long to ignore.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-9-07 - Published: 4-9-0734. We Were the People reviewsTook a history assignment and ran with it. You might say it's about the effect politics have on society and culture as a whole. Or, you know, you might not.Complete - Politics - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-31-07 - Published: 3-31-0735. ItSome days it's here, and some days it's not.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-16-07 - Published: 3-16-0736. HairA young man with pretty hair deals with life. This is a story I wrote a long, long time ago back in '06 about an occurance one night. The end did not truly happen—or maybe it did, I don't know—but I like to think that somehow we made an impact.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,211 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-24-07 - Published: 2-24-0737. We Don't reviewsInspired by my bestest friend forever &etc., TwistedExpressions. Outlining the ups and downs of life as a pair...Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-13-07 - Published: 2-13-0738. Reveries of HistoryNot exactly about politics, but that's the closest to it... it's about boundaries and how far a line can be crossed before you've gone too far.Complete - Politics - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-10-07 - Published: 2-10-0739. Snowfalls & CertaintyLife is nothing but snowfalls and the people that you share them with.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-25-07 - Published: 1-25-0740. The Perfection of Embrace reviewsJust like the title says, as best I can describe it.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-14-07 - Published: 1-14-0741. Sweet Contrast reviewsLaugh like dreams are yours to be, like flowers can't bring misery...Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-7-07 - Published: 1-7-0742. My Maritime Request reviewsThis was written about an idea that's been passing through my mind lately, not really an actual occurance like most of my other things. If life were an ocean, I'd have only one request...Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-3-07 - Published: 1-3-0743. I'm Sorry reviewsRemembering old mistakes is always more painful then living them out. So sometimes, we write them down...Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-16-06 - Published: 12-16-0644. Secrets in Plaster reviewsAnd these are the thoughts written in old plaster cracks that run across my infamous ceiling.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-30-06 - Published: 11-30-0645. Fresh out of Humanity reviewsIt was obvious that the woman did not belong in the building—the dirty, ragged men and women looked up at her like an enemy, an intruder in Jimmy Choos.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,027 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-19-06 - Published: 11-19-0646. Oh, for the Love of a DogI was watching my dog sleeping on my leg the other day, and I came to this conclusion that I know various of people have said before. I just wanted to say it again, that's all.Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 247 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-19-06 - Published: 11-19-0647. Sticks and Stones reviewsSticks and stones may break my bones...Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-11-06 - Published: 11-11-0648. Of Love and Leaves reviewsA short story that shows the humanlike emotions of both a leaf, and its dearest tree... and how the two came to love.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 827 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-25-06 - Published: 10-25-0649. Falling LeavesFollowing the biography of the young girl I brought to life in InBetween Peices, here, life is compared to the falling of leaves from trees.Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-21-06 - Published: 10-21-0650. InBetween Pieces reviewsAnd in the puzzle box of life, we're always just one piece short...Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-12-06 - Published: 10-12-0651. And Then reviewsMoments in time always seem to pass too quickly...Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-8-06 - Published: 10-8-0652. Seasons of the Trees reviewsIn the beginning, there was nothing. Nothing, and the Trees.Fable - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,040 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-20-06 - Published: 8-20-0653. Got a BandAid on my Xray Heart reviewsI'm experimenting with different forms of poetry. Here's a slightly malformed test-run of something I wrote at two in the morning. Enjoy. :)Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 200 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-25-06 - Published: 7-25-0654. Blind Hearted reviews"How sad," they murmur when no one is listening. "How sad she's so oblivious to his advances. So... blind hearted, if you will..."Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-24-06 - Published: 7-24-0655. Shadow Boy in the Court reviewsIn the eyes of a Queen, he is a nothing, but in the eyes of a vagabond, he is an everything.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-5-06 - Published: 7-5-0656. The Path of Life reviewsA slightly ambiguous poem that focuses around some sort of Native American tribal celebration, in order to portray one simple metaphor.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 280 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-4-06 - Published: 7-4-0657. The Battle of the Sky reviewsA continued version of As Night Beckons Dawn-the secrets behind both realms of Light and Shadow.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 339 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-3-06 - Published: 7-3-0658. As Night Beckons Dawn reviewsA closer look at the origins of the sun's rise.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-3-06 - Published: 7-3-0659. Will You Catch Me if I Fall? reviewsYou could read it a million times and still never find the meaning. Or you could read it once, and it could be [CLEAR AS DAY.]Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-6-06 - Published: 6-6-0660. What Have You Become? reviewsLife is change, and no one ever stays the same from the moment they enter your life till the moment they leave.Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-6-06 - Published: 6-6-0661. The Underground Festival reviewsAbove ground, the earth rocks about mockingly, houses crumble, lives are lost. But underground, why, that my friends, is a different story all together...Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,511 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-6-06 - Published: 6-6-06
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