Jareth the Monkhide bio
 Author has written 40 stories for General, Politics, Fantasy, Love, Life, Sci-Fi, Religion, Fantasy, and Song. I have totally re-vamped this page mainly because I got bored with it, but also partly because I am secretly depressed about discovering that I'm starting to actually get a little older now and I'm acting out in the only childish way I know how. Here are some stats like favorite things, likes and dislikes, vicious rumors, etc. Favorite Movies 1) The Great Dictator (1940, Charlie Chaplain) Favorite Books- in no particular order: The Foundation Series (Isaac Asimov), Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Dark Tower Series (Stephen King), The Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling), Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (A. Conan Doyle), Encyclopedia Brittanica (all of them), City of New York Phone Directory (1936 edition), Necronomicon Cook Book- Recipes from Innsmouth (Plooopfrzzlllpt Shhhvlgggthoomha XXVII, PhD.), Transcripts of the Nixon Watergate hearings (1974), Sister's Filthy Desires (translated by Josef Preetz), The Joy of Teen Pregnancy (co-authored by the "Choose Abortion Its Your Legal Right" Coalition), The Most Blasphemous Book in the Universe (anonymous). Favorite Music- Pretty much anything except rap, punk, or 90 percent of anything on American radio. But I do greatly enjoy classical, metal (the European stuff), psychaedelic, goth, classic rock, prog and space rock, bluegrass, 80s alternative and college rock, pre- Hank Jr and truck-driving country, folk, some instrumental jazz, world music like from Asia India or eastern Europe, anything that's at least 500 years old and creepy. Favorite TV Shows- Except for weather reports, they all SUCK. |
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Flowers in Fading Hands reviews
About addiction, and all of the desperation and paranoia that comes with it.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 219 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3/23/2010 - Complete
Hymn to Gibberish reviews
This is about a dream I just woke up from about a half hour ago and the computer was on, so I wrote it down real quick before I forgot about it. Quite honestly, I wouldn't blame you for thinking me a psycho for this.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/28/2009 - Complete
Life, More or Less reviews
Hopefully I can get back on here writing again. This one just popped into my head after, to my embarrassment, I suffered an agaonizing bowel movement and thought I was about to end up in the hospital. Its really scarier than you think, try it some time.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/28/2009 - Complete
The Golden Curse reviews
Alteng and his friends try to recover a lost treasure that once belonged to his wife, which is also coveted by an evil mastermind for a different purpose. Part of The Further Adventures of Altenglisch Hans Cuxhaven, in perpetual progress.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 10,339 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 7/2/2009 - Published: 7/27/2007
Sleep of a Ruined Age reviews
From the Adventures of Altenglisch Hans Cuxhaven. Alteng seeks out his old off-and-on nemesis, the mystic and sorceror Juin Li, in order to help a friend return from beyond.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,248 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4/19/2009
Forever and Ever, Again reviews
This is a companion piece to "A Still, Small Voice", and by now the narrator has seen enough to eithr drive him mad, or terribly sane.
Poetry: Song - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 554 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3/26/2009 - Complete
Scenes from a NearForgotten Grave reviews
Based on a story my girlfriend may not have written yet, but its coming someday. A sad one about visiting the grave of the wife who died in childbirth, and the husband largely blamed himself for wanting a large family.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 697 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2/27/2009 - Complete
To Walk in Eternity reviews
This is more free-form, with no annoying beats to count and very little rhyming. And no, it's not about vampires either.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Drama/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 669 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 1/16/2009 - Complete
The Final Words of Comfort reviews
You can cheat death but still not beat him.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 503 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1/6/2009 - Complete
Ready or Not, Here I Die reviews
A poltergeist-type story, partially inspired by "The Changeling" starring George C. Scott, and also from some other stories heard through the years. Really though, why would anybody want to haunt this rotten world anyway?
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 673 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: 8/30/2008 - Complete
The Passenger reviews
I was very depressed when I wrote this because I'm about to turn forty, but if you stick around long enough it will happen to you too, so I guess now I don't feel so bad after all. Just step up and take a ride, its free, and it only happens once...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 391 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6/21/2008 - Complete
The Product of the Company We Keep reviews
Do you buy into whatever comes along without kicking the tired?
Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 359 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5/30/2008 - Complete
Into the Sunset reviews
It happens to the best of us, and the worst, the end.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 599 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5/15/2008 - Complete
The Laughing God reviews
Alteng and friends race against their enemies to be first to discover the truth behind legends of an ancient weapon of mass destruction, which has been twisted into a religious cult in nineteenth century Ecuador.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 6,220 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4/25/2008 - Published: 2/3/2008
Midnight at the Crossroads reviews
From the Adventures of Alteng Cuxhaven. After World War Two, Alteng must once again meet with the goddess Dolora of the Whispering Eyes, with her offer of redeeming himself in the eyes of his god, and also to bring back to life his dead wife, Narrinda.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 3 - Words: 8,466 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4/12/2008 - Published: 8/11/2007
The Path More Traveled reviews
Originally written to be inserted into a chapter of one of my girlfriend's other stories she wanted a drinking song, it was rejected for being too serious, so here it is for you instead.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 310 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/8/2007 - Complete
The House of Empty Air reviews
From the further adventures of Alteng Cuxhaven. Alteng and Narrinda attempt to rescue a girl from an old ancestral home with a vengeful spirit.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,409 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10/14/2007 - Complete
The Black Pharaoh reviews
Part of the further adventures of Alteng Cuxhaven, more of which will come later. Alteng faces an ancient being known as the Black Pharaoh and his minions in order to help an oppressed people, find a cure for his cursed wife, and get filthy rich too!
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 9,169 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9/29/2007 - Published: 5/20/2007
The Dancing Girl's Tale reviews
About a woman whose life has gone wrong, but she's given a second chance by the only man who ever really loved her and has been trying to find out whatever happened to her. This could be read in a more spiritual sense, as a sinner redeemed before the end
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 376 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7/28/2007 - Complete
The Phoenix That Fell reviews
About a long but unstable relationship that keeps rising from the ashes, but not forever.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 363 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 12/20/2006 - Complete
A Whole, Greater Than The Sum reviews
A poetic ode to a fictional antihero of my girlfriend's creation, he desires to be good but the fates often work against him.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 423 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10/29/2006 - Complete
The Sinner's Psalm reviews
My humble attempt to evoke the same feelings of enlightenment through spiritual cataclysm as first realized by the most under-rated rock band in history, the mighty Trouble.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 302 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/26/2006
All My Nothing reviews
A quirky, moody piece about those times when it seems life passed you by though you tried to stay ahead.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5/18/2006
An Ancient Plague reviews
A germ-seed for a storyline that I am only vaguely steering through. Let me know where you would like it to go from here.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,646 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12/11/2004 - Published: 12/6/2004
Spirit of the Season reviews
Failed romance told from a suicide victim's point of view. For a cheerful time of year.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 264 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 12/10/2004
Daydream reviews
Sorry I've been away for a while. More to come soon. Anyway, this one's short & sweet, about an ill man tired of feeling pain, wanting release.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8/28/2004
A Still, Small Voice reviews
This has Lovecraftian overtones, and I was thinking about Vincent Price's "Haunted Palace", a little E. A. Poe, and Blue Oyster Cult's "Imaginos". Beware.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,338 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4/12/2004
Sonnet The Lover's Pledge reviews
Yeah I know, sentimental, syruppy, and sappy- but hey, its that time of year you know. And besides, my next work will probably be horror anyway, so I'll get it all out now!
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2/2/2004
Requiem for a Suicide Genius reviews
The paths of life often intertwine upon each other, but we all face death alone, even in a crowd.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 236 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1/29/2004
Code Pi Assimilate reviews
It looks like jibberish at first, but there's a method to the madness (beat structure was based on the mathematical constant "Pi). A poem about someone forgetting their humanity in favor of coldly analyzing life like a crossword puzzle, instead of seeing
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 229 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1/29/2004
In None We Trust reviews
A battle hymn for all you who've felt the bite of betrayal. Why do we always remember the biggest losers in our lives, anyway?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 328 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1/27/2004
Crusade reviews
Dunno, written in '99 (I think), after an all-night Heavy Metal binge of Manowar, Blind Guardian, & Yngwie Malmsteen cds. Makes you wanna go downtown and beat up a few muggers, eh? P.S.- Musicians, add solos after second stanza!
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 247 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1/25/2004
Slave to my Secrets reviews
Dedicated to all those soulmates who found each other but built barriers instead of overcoming them.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 220 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1/25/2004
Tomb of the Unknown
This one is (purposely) not as beat-structured, very earthy and rough. Written in '97, after a divorce and a move.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 290 - Published: 1/25/2004
Upon Her Arrival reviews
Written when I was 13, for the first one to stir me. Girls, don't you wish all men talked like this?
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 240 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Published: 1/24/2004
Ode to Madness for HPL
Out of apocalyptic ruin comes something that should have died long ago.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 290 - Published: 1/22/2004
The Media Lies reviews
For those disillusioned with different speeches falling out of the same big mouth.
Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 328 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/18/2004
One Man's Eden is Another's reviews
A man recovers from mental illness but finds the world changed for the worse.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 284 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1/11/2004
Little Wings reviews
Written in '92, after the death of a small child.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 4 - Published: 1/11/2004
The Calling reviews
Psychological study of a transplanted soul
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 322 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1/11/2004