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since: 09-03-04, id: 434127, Profile Updated: 09-14-08
country: United States
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Author has written 63 stories for Love, Life, School, Young Adult, Romance, General, Friendship, Haiku, Family, Essay, General, and War.

Hey, this is die Gruenfraeulein. As you may notice I have no problems being either frustratingly cryptic or embarrassingly explicit. I also have no problem titling my poems in languages other than English.

What I've written here can be divided into several categories:

1. Old poetry. This is stuff I wrote in 2005 when I was new to Fictionpress, and pertains to issues with which I am no longer dealing. 'The Turnaround,' 'Smile,' 'Straßenmäuler,' 'Night Water,' 'Porch Swing,' 'Four,' (probably the best of these) 'The Interlude,' 'Achtundsechszigsten Heusehrecke,' 'The Circle,' and 'The Truth of the Subterranean Maze' are all in this category.

2. Happy/confused 2006 poetry. There's some awesome stuff in here, and I still love it. 2006 was a great year, and most of what happened then still effects me at least a bit. Namely... 'Venus,' 'Month of Moments,' 'Redwood,' 'Meditation on The Shins' 'Turn a Square',' 'Eight Degree Midnight,' 'Fear Before Flight,' 'Step Into the Night,' 'People Are Bodies of Water,' (which might still be my best poem ever) 'Falling Earth, Burning Stars,' 'Sun Over Bricks,' 'Scattered Dandelion Fluff,' 'You Are a Polar Bear,' and 'The Grasshopper of 2006' are all in this category. 'Ich Kann Sehen Nicht' and 'Writing' were also written during this time, but are...different.

3. Writing pertaining to September 18th. September 18th, 2005 was the worst day of my life and I've written a lot about it, in the formats of Fiction, Creative non-fiction, and poetry (most of it isn't here). What is here is 'The Colours of September,' 'Tapferkeit,' 'The Bikini' (the best of these), and 'Statistically Speaking, You Misspoke.'

4. The Fiona Stories. These straddle the line between fiction and creative non-fiction and were written in 2006. 'Rebirth,' 'Monster 43,' and 'Film of Blame,' and the newest one (which is connected to the 2008 poetry), 'Swimming Past the Remainders.'

5. The Ithaca stories. Stories about my collection of fictional characters at Ithaca College, which I wrote during 2005 and 2006. 'Final Fight,' the multiple-part story 'First Semester,' and 'Ya Can't Refuse.'

6. Other stories. Stories not part of an ongoing series or related to an overarching theme. These are purely fiction rather than the Fiction/CNF hybrid in some other stories. 'The Dream Falls into My Lap,' 'The Hearse,' (my profile picture is representative of this story), 'The Compromise,' and 'Desire/Fear.'

7. 2007's poetry. 2007 was an odd year as some of the poems I wrote then were actually about the events of the past two years, while others were about 2007's own events. 2007 was when I began writing haikus every Wednesday, and some of them are in here. 'Perennial,' 'Haiku of the Puddles,' 'Swarthy Anxiety,' 'Lox Discovery,' 'Orders to a Barmaid,' 'Buried Recliner,' 'The Booth Song,' 'I Heard of Your Falling,' and 'Haiku of Beer Pong.'

8. 2008's poetry. Obviously there is more to come here...and some of what I already have written isn't even online yet. But what is here is 'Pathological Liar?,' 'Prior to Reading the Fish,' 'The Salesman Coming After Me,' 'The Legacy of Springfield, Ohio,' 'Mutual Intuition' and the poems pertaining to the time when my long-term boyfriend and I broke up for two weeks (we're back together now), 'Just Five Days,' 'Medina,' 'Cinco de Mayo de Ocho,' (probably the best) 'Do Not Resuscitate,' 'So, I Trust You Now,' 'Switzerland in the Basement,' 'Chasing the Remainders Away,' and 'April Technology.'

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1. Ocean of Noise »
A political novel centered on the current reproductive rights debate, told in four different voices.
General - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 7 - Words: 10,357 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-12-08 - Published: 11-1-08
2. Mutual Intuition reviews
Making a new friend, with a dude, some references to astrology
Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Friendship/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-14-08 - Published: 9-14-08
3. April Technology
Remembering the three April 21sts since I started dating my once-and-current boyfriend.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-11-08 - Published: 9-11-08
4. Statistically Speaking, You Misspoke
There was someone who promised someone else he would protect me, three years ago. But he didn't know who would be threatening me.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-27-08 - Published: 8-27-08
5. Swimming Past the Remainder
Two lovers who met two and a half years ago reconcile after a breakup in the same place they met, with lots of Shins and Sleater-Kinney songs
Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 890 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-26-08 - Published: 8-26-08
6. The Legacy of Springfield, Ohio reviews
I tried to tell my mother my deepest secret and she pushed me away. Weird metaphors.
Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-28-08 - Published: 7-28-08
7. Chasing the Remainders Away
The pitfalls of trying to recover after being hurt
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-19-08 - Published: 7-19-08
8. Switzerland in the Basement
Planning to reconnect in a place which holds so much memory.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-8-08 - Published: 7-8-08
9. The Compromise »
Alex, Carrie, Robbie, Milla, and Nathan start a band and deal with what comes after that.
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 4,396 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 6-22-08 - Published: 5-26-08
10. My Purchased Teeth reviews
Orthodontic sadism, ingrained classism, and my sanity.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-14-08 - Published: 6-14-08
11. The Salesman Coming After Me reviews
My bad dreams about the current war
Complete - War - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-26-08 - Published: 5-26-08
12. Do Not Resuscitate
People sometimes say that if one is an organ donor, one will not be resuscitated in a hospital. I'm not sure if I believe this or not, nor am I sure if I care enough to decide to no longer be one.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-24-08 - Published: 5-24-08
13. Cinco de Mayo de Ocho
People and life are extremely frustrating confusing and nothing makes sense, but maybe there's still some hope
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-5-08 - Published: 5-5-08
14. Medina attempt 3
I wrote this while driving on a sunny day that soon turned into a monsoon, and yes, my life sucks
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-3-08 - Published: 5-3-08
15. Just Five Days
My boldness, my anger, unexpected change
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: M - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-2-08 - Published: 5-2-08
16. Prior to Reading the Fish reviews
April is such a month of nerves and change.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-8-08 - Published: 4-8-08
17. DesireFear
An aging businessman reflects on his unrequited feelings for a young newlywed secretary.
Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 651 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-28-08 - Published: 3-28-08
18. Pathological Liar? reviews
Various lies a friend has told to me for no apparent reason for the 2 years I've known him.
Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Friendship/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-18-08 - Published: 3-18-08
19. Haiku of Beer Pong reviews
I went to a party last week and watched my Haikumuse play beer pong. Therefore, I end up with a haiku about beer pong.
Complete - Haiku - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-2-07 - Published: 11-2-07
20. I Heard of Your Falling reviews
My reactions to two of my friends breaking up with each other.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-2-07 - Published: 11-2-07
21. The Booth Song reviews
Sitting around bored
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-14-07 - Published: 9-14-07
22. The Hearse »
Bridget has taken care of her alcoholic father and epileptic twin brother since her mother left when she was seven. But the dreams she has might be unable to be accomplished in her small town.
Complete - General - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 3 - Words: 7,364 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-30-07 - Published: 6-13-07
23. The Bikini reviews
I bought the bikini planning to wear it for lots of fun in the water. I never knew what would happen while wearing it a year later.
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 858 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-3-07 - Published: 7-3-07
24. Buried Recliner reviews
The last weekend before summer vacation, and how the last day of it was utterly wasted
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-6-07 - Published: 5-6-07
25. Orders to a Barmaid reviews
I got frustrated, I drank rum, and I became happier, though the frustration hadn't thoroughly evaporated.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-16-07 - Published: 4-16-07
26. Lox Discovery
Internet sleuthing leads me to finding out some disturbing information...but reality trumps my first worries
Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-10-07 - Published: 4-10-07
27. Swarthy Anxiety
My worried mind
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-28-07 - Published: 3-28-07
28. Haiku of the Puddles
What I see while staring across my college's temporary parking lot after a March rain
Complete - Haiku - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-14-07 - Published: 3-14-07
29. Perennial
a flower growing in a garden and two very different gardeners
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-18-07 - Published: 2-18-07
30. The Grasshopper of 2006
An extraordinarily wonderful Friday night before falling asleep
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 57 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-10-06 - Published: 12-10-06
31. The Dream Falls into My Lap
Olympia's thoughts on various other peoples' families
Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 921 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-10-06 - Published: 11-10-06
32. You Are a Polar Bear
Skiing while fooddeprived, sleepdeprived, and thoroughly confused. The navigator of the mountains. Companion poem to parts of 'Film of Blame'
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-1-06 - Published: 11-1-06
33. Scattered Dandelion Fluff
Looking back on a cowardly liar through birds and plants
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-20-06 - Published: 10-20-06
34. Tapferkeit
A girl thinks about the tragedy of her life one year ago and how things have changed since.
Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 840 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-18-06 - Published: 9-18-06
35. The Colours of September
The differences between one year and the next, one boy and the next... when one of them was utterly dispicable. Not entirely obvious language
Love - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-17-06 - Published: 9-17-06
36. First Semester »
A girl with some issues starts college, meets some thoroughly insane friends, and gains a new purpose in life, which eventually allows her to combat her old 'demons'
General - Fiction Rated: M - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 10 - Words: 23,936 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-15-06 - Published: 7-23-06
37. Film of Blame
When Fiona's friend tells her that her ex-boyfriend may have been even more of a creep than she thought he was, she re-examines her entire relationship with him, leading to the discovery of his true self.
Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,053 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-15-06 - Published: 9-15-06
38. Monster 43
Monica hooks up with half of her high school's longest-running couple, gets caught by one of her friends, and spends the next year attempting to expose the guy for the creep he is.
Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,787 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-15-06 - Published: 9-15-06
39. Ya Can't Refuse: a Story From The Ithaca Pantheon
Georgia thought her life was headed on a fairly straight path. Then she meets Roger Lawrence, man of her dreams, and suddenly nothing can be the same.
Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,819 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-13-06 - Published: 9-13-06
40. Sun Over Bricks reviews
Sunsets, sunsets, and more sunsets, for over two years
Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 247 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-4-06 - Published: 9-4-06
41. Falling Earth, Burning Stars
A walk along the river helps me decide my next move in life
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-28-06 - Published: 7-28-06
42. People Are Bodies Of Water
Some people are needy witches, some people are good.
Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 214 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-28-06 - Published: 7-28-06
43. Step Into The Night
Falling in love in the fall. Inspired by The Shins' 'Saint Simon'.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-28-06 - Published: 7-28-06
44. Writing reviews
Two cars crash into each other and everybody dies. Or not.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 227 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-28-06 - Published: 4-28-06
45. Rebirth
Fiona had made the decision to stay with her boyfriend because he was 'safe'. But what happens when he lies to her and things change and nothing is safe?
Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,954 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-4-06 - Published: 4-4-06
46. Fear Before Flight reviews
Something really crappy that happened in October
School - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 283 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-21-06 - Published: 3-21-06
47. Ich Kann Sehen Nicht
A day in the suburbs of Munich. Or not. Really, not something I want to give a description for. It was a lot more than just a day in the suburbs of Munich.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 288 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-12-06 - Published: 3-12-06
48. Eight Degree Midnight
A walk in the snow with a total idiot
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-4-06 - Published: 2-4-06
49. Meditation on The Shins' 'Turn a Square' reviews
How things changed over a few months while my favorite song stayed the same
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 525 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-3-06 - Published: 2-3-06
50. Redwood
Sexy tree men wreak havoc on my soul
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-24-06 - Published: 1-24-06
51. Final Fight reviews
When Ada's boyfriend makes some demands of her she's not willing to acquiesce to, she breaks up with him, then turns to her newly-pacifistic brother for help.
Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,346 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-24-06 - Published: 1-24-06
52. Month of Moments
One month thinking of one person who totally changed my life
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-24-06 - Published: 1-24-06
53. Venus reviews
Boy lies to girl. Girl decides to start tempestuous affair with other boy she has noticed previously. Metaphors.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-24-06 - Published: 1-24-06
54. The Truth of the Subterranean Maze
Why can such a genius in some ways act like such an idiot in others?
School - Fiction Rated: M - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 266 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-20-05 - Published: 11-20-05
55. The Circle
What goes through my mind in the space of about a half hour after a good week of mulling.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 166 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-12-05 - Published: 11-12-05
56. Achtundsechzigsten Heusehrecke
What happens when you meet a guy, lose track of him for two and a half years, and then see his face again matched with a hotter voice and better body.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-7-05 - Published: 11-7-05
57. The Interlude
Riding in a van on the highway in the rain
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-3-05 - Published: 9-3-05
58. Four
What happens when a guy has a crush on you when you're already taken
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-3-05 - Published: 9-3-05
59. Porch Swing reviews
What happens when two lovers reconcile after a fight. Slowly becoming reaccquainted, promising all the things they promised to each other before once again.
Love - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 59 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-3-05 - Published: 9-3-05
60. Night Water reviews
A poem about the double life I led between my house and my boyfriend's home... what I wished were my life and what really was my life.
Love - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-3-05 - Published: 9-3-05
61. Straßenmäuler
My thoughts about someone I shouldn't have thought about
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-1-05 - Published: 9-1-05
62. Smile
This is basically a story about when people smile for pictures and nobody knows the true story behind those plastered faces.
Life - Fiction Rated: M - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 208 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-1-05 - Published: 9-1-05
63. The Turnaround reviews
Essentially my very-bad-girl teacher crush. More to come on this topic, I'm sure.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-1-05 - Published: 9-1-05
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