Hi, I'm not up to disclosing my name and the place I live, but I'll
tell some stuff about me, just so you're not completely in the dark.

I'm female and in college. Now you're in the light of dying firefly. *grins innocently*

July 27, 2005 UPDATE: I have removed my story, "The Ember Wakes," seeing as not many people want to read a story that will never have a completed version posted on here. It also needs serious rewriting, which I am in the excrutiating process of doing right now. I only have two short fictional pieces still up, one that is very old and not really indicative of what I can do anymore, and one that I just posted that doesn't seem to be garnering much interest. They may not be about flamey floofballs, but please take a look at the newest one. You might like what you see...and it's possible I'll be putting up more short pieces involving the same characters/universe. I may eventually post another novel up if anyone seems interested. So...check it out. I'll do my best to review back for those story reviews. Thanks. :)

Hershey249

January 23, 2005: I wanted to finally give people the much better reason why I have been practically gone from this site. I discovered that, after not frequenting Fictionpress for almost a year,
I have about 90 percent less spyware on my computer. Again, I do apologize to
those people whose stories I was reading. I noticed that I was removed
from a few people's favorites list. If it was for that reason, I repeat
that I am sorry, and I did not stop reading people's stories because I
suddenly began to dislike them. If my reading and commenting on your
story really means that much to you, feel free to catch me on AIM and
let me know, and I'll try and poke my nose in every so often again. And
a big thank you to all those people who kept reading my stuff anyway,
even if I hardly ever read theirs. Hi ho, Ad-aware... ^_^()

January 31, 2004: Please note that I have taken down many of my poems.
I have done so because I want to publish them someday, and I recently
learned that publishing companies won't accept things that are online
for everyone to read for free. I'm sorry to anyone who enjoyed reading
my poetry; if you're really dying to see any of it, which I doubt, you
can email me or contact me over AIM. I'll be glad to show single
people, I just don't want it out for all to see and/or snatch. I may be
taking my story down soon as well, but for the moment I'll leave it up.
If anyone has a great desire to read it, the next few weeks would
probably be a good time. Again, I'm sorry. I just don't want my chance
for publication someday to go down the drain.

You'll also probably have noticed my absence. After finding out I would
need to take things down, my enthusiasm for fictionpress has dwindled
considerably. I might show up from time to time, pehaps to look at
stories I really want to see the endings to, but not much else. Unless
I experience a big turnaround, my presence here will be limited. Once
again, I am sorry for anyone who has been counting on me to correct
their spelling errors. ^_^()