MFB Ortegahide bio
 Author has written 53 stories for Life, Humor, Thriller, General, Love, Friendship, General, Nature, Historical, and Fantasy. Hello, all! My name's Becca. I'm 20 and a junior at Western Washington University with a major in Kinesiology with a Pre-Health Care emphasis. My main project for this site is now in process! It's working title is Will and Testament, a historical fiction about the 1918 Flu pandemic and its victims. As I complete each chapter, I will upload the WIPs for anyone's critiques, which are very much appreciated. My past project was called "Killing Time", a historical fiction about the Jack the Ripper and the Scotland Yard police officers who pursued him. I write poetry and prose, though not very often, given my current field of study. I really do appreciate critiques with some sort of substance, so if you like my stuff, I'd enjoy knowing exactly what you liked...or alternately, what you disliked. Then I can know what techniques to continue and which to fix. Hit me up. I don't bite. Much. |
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Wish by Derrick Calvin Nachtigall reviews
Simple but one of my favorites.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/15/2008
dancing Lights by Derrick Calvin Nachtigall reviews
I'm really not one for summarys.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 7/15/2008
Jack the Ripper: Now and Forever by Pearls and Formaldehyde reviews
The last letter written by Jack the Ripper before he disappeared off the face of the earth. This is fiction. So a lot isn't true, of course. Don't kill me if you hate it.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 701 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/30/2006 - Complete
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Momentum
This poem is about a winter's night when I went down to a pier all by myself at 9PM to lie on my back, look at the stars, let it all out, and come to peace with the still waters.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 238 - Published: 4/6/2012 - Complete
En Route
The transcendent lights of backwards "Out of Service" signs reflected across her vision as her thoughts lied on the prospect of you like a left-for-dead couch lies in passing on a water-damaged street corner. The italicized lines should be on their own
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 834 - Published: 11/24/2011 - Complete
Burn Victim
The words seeped from his lips like tobacco smoke crawls from yellowed teeth during slow, living death rattles.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 254 - Published: 7/29/2011 - Complete
Together reviews
The night is for those whose hearts are connected through twinkling stars of an unconscious sky... Draft 2
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 226 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/11/2011
Frozen
Our foundations we thought were steady now slide beneath us, and we shiver in fear of unexplored sensation as our fantasies condense into something real.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Published: 5/26/2011 - Complete
NonFiction reviews
She delicately fingered each antique page,as if the parchment itself would slip through her fingers like the rivers of fantasy that flowed between “once upon a time” and “the end”... Intended title: Non Fiction
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 269 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/27/2010 - Complete
Monopoly
You roll the dice daily, hoping that a 10 might come your way...
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Published: 7/26/2010
Sloppy Seconds
No, baby, I don't want fries with that.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Published: 7/21/2010 - Complete
Tasseography reviews
We wait patiently, brewing an infusion of cliched dreams, steaming with unreasonable expectations...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 166 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7/14/2010 - Complete
A Midnight Dream
The world is a midnight dream, she whispered to the silence of the night, enveloped in its full embrace of nothingness, still, with unblinking eyes...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 307 - Published: 6/27/2010 - Complete
The Orphan reviews
A ruby river rushing through the dams of deadened veins to bring vivacity to an ashen world. A savior. No...A demon.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/19/2009 - Complete
Soul Searching
This is a re-telling of my worst nightmare. First draft.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: M - English - Poetry/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 725 - Published: 9/2/2009
Roses reviews
We hang here by a thread like the hangman who has lost his last letter...
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/31/2009 - Complete
The Strange Life of One Disneyasaurus Childae reviews
Disneyasaurus childae, commonly known as the Disney child star, and the spell-binding tale of its existence.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 573 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3/26/2009 - Complete
Dreamscape reviews
When a world of grey finds color for the first time...a recurring dream.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 306 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12/25/2008 - Complete
A Modest Proposal reviews
A play on Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" for the betterment of the United States of America’s economic condition by developing technology to use organic gas-releases.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,173 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/16/2008 - Complete
Killing Time
Jack the Ripper in a tale of madness.
Fiction: Historical - Rated: M - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14,157 - Favs: 3 - Published: 11/8/2008 - Complete
Ash Tray reviews
Be my cancer, baby. I'm tired of second-hand smoke.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/30/2008 - Complete
Tale of A Goldfish reviews
I'm no mermaid. I'm just scales and a gaping mouth, no flowing hair, no siren's serenade...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10/13/2008 - Complete
Synesthesia reviews
A poem about seeing sound.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 208 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/9/2008 - Complete
Tantrum reviews
Pretty angsty, not very proud of it, but tell me what you think.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10/9/2008 - Complete
The Clarity of Emeralds reviews
Tentative title A narrative poem that speaks of walking through a redwood forest.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7/6/2008
Patients reviews
This is what happens when I get writer's block. Your thoughts?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/2/2008
The Audience reviews
The last guest, the last listener waiting for the end of decrescendo upon memory's stage.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 183 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6/23/2008
All DolledUp reviews
Maybe someone will pick me up off the shelf...
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 208 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/11/2008
The Whisperings of Blackened Feathers reviews
Truly, if I had a choice, this would remain untitled because I have no idea what this means. It just happened. Your interpretations?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6/3/2008 - Complete
Untitled reviews
I'm not even sure what this means. It sort of just happened, and I'd love some interpretations...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6/1/2008
The Checker Game reviews
There is a strict hierarchy to this war of wit, only those who are dead and those who are dying for the "betterment of the kingdom."
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5/25/2008
ChokeChained reviews
I'm taking one step forward and two steps back in the choke-chain of footsteps forming the noose around my neck.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5/25/2008 - Complete
ShortWaved reviews
Testing 1, 2, 3. Do you read me?
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5/13/2008 - Complete
Fallen reviews
Exsanguinate your soul of embarrassment, doubt, and fear.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5/6/2008 - Complete
The Magic Trick reviews
Will you escape?
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5/6/2008 - Complete
Sweet Dreams and Goodnight reviews
No need to worry, honey, I'm just another monster.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 1/12/2008 - Complete
Eden reviews
Cremated dreams fall around spider-leg hands...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1/12/2008 - Complete
The TRUTH Behind Tickle Me Elmo reviews
Tickle Me Elmo. Evil incarnate.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 737 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 5 - Published: 1/12/2008 - Complete
Smoke Screen reviews
Love is ungraspable, like trying to catch smoke with bare hands. I need help with titling this, please.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1/24/2007
Sirens Tied to a Heartstring Balloon reviews
Sing me the song of your soul. Let me feel the melodies of your spirit...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11/27/2006 - Complete
The Artist's Mannequin reviews
He only recognizes the feelings embedded in the positions the Artist makes...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11/21/2006 - Complete
In the Tides
Ever heard that there's more fish in the sea? Well, anyone who has told you that is completely right, just wait for the right fish to be brought by the tides...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Published: 11/13/2006
A Fly Ball reviews
The poem of how a ball is released from the comfort of a glove...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/6/2006
Shed a Single Tear reviews
It is far too silent for comfort, my beautiful one...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11/6/2006
A Sketch of Reality reviews
I was inspired by a colored pencil. Seriously. Now, go plan, erase, and sketch your reality.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 10/17/2006 - Complete
A Social Hierarchy reviews
I don't even know if you could call this "prose" or not. Hmm. Well, here's my philosophy on stereotypes i guess.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10/9/2006
A Knot So Intricate reviews
A poem of a busy mind. I was bored...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 10/9/2006
False Comforts
The poem of when friends break up...which is what I'm feeling right now.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Published: 10/8/2006
Guess What? IT DIDN'T START WITH PHONETAPPING! reviews
Thought phone-tapping was bad? Well, the government has been using a little childrens' toy to spy on us all along. CODENAME: FURBY.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 654 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10/5/2006
Three Letters, Two Words, One Phrase reviews
This is my poem about a wedding that has been published before. Hope you like it!
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10/5/2006
A Pane of Glass reviews
A poem about feeling completely invisable.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 10/5/2006
John Doe reviews
This poem was rated T because it talks about death a lot. It's basically what the whole poem is about, but go ahead and read it.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 244 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10/5/2006
He Who Held the Night reviews
A Jack the Ripper poem. Hey, I'm "Saucy Jack" Who can blame me?
Poetry: General - Rated: M - English - Horror/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 285 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/5/2006
A Game of Cat and Mouse reviews
CHASE THORTON: His father is dead; his mother, a drunk. He's a loner, misunderstood, and a social outcast. But when his father's killer comes to exterminate the only witness to his father's death, it is up to Chase to escape the mouse's trap.
Fiction: Thriller - Rated: T - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,285 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10/5/2006
Barbie: A Friend or a Highly Effective Weapon? reviews
Barbie: next year's weapon!
Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 554 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 4 - Published: 10/5/2006
A March Down the Road of Life reviews
We all go down the road of life...in fact, we're forced to...but at what speed is our choice.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10/5/2006