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Author has written 64 stories for General, Life, Nature, Religion, Love, Friendship, Family, Politics, Haiku, and Fantasy.

For the month of June, I'm embarking a creative odyssey, a quest to woo my muse. 30 poems in 30 days. Uncharted waters await. All poems will be posted individually in their respective categories on Fictionpress, but you can find the entire collection on my blog.

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I am a girl made of metaphor, whose existence is punctuated by brief periods of artistry. Fiction is what I breathe, words steadily filling up my lungs, and so poetry is wound in the strings of my heart. I am addicted to adjectives and I lie to tell the truth sometimes, but we all do. I don't believe in abab rhyme schemes or politicians. And what remains to be told is found within my poems, because words are the only way to me.

The Golden Rule of Fictionpress: review unto others as you would have them review unto you.

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Thoughts of a NonConfrontational Human Being by the lost yarn spinner reviews
Rain fell ... first in droplets, then in a steady downpour, dulling the landscape". A series of rants told in the third person. WARNING: Right-wing conservatives might want to turn away now.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 585 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Updated: 9/4/2008 - Published: 4/6/2008
religion by yummybunnystew reviews
Sometimes I wish she would lose her religion and find me." NOTE: I accidently switched this story with a reply to a survey. It's fixed now, but I apologize to those who ended up seeing it. That was NOT supposed to be there.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 650 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 8 - Published: 8/24/2008 - Complete
your song by theinfinitebee reviews
after only 16 hours, my heart longs to beat in sync with yours. pathetic.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 5 - Published: 7/9/2008
the poor by siphoned afterglow reviews
are represented in a pie-chart specially for you.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/19/2008 - Complete
i'm floating thoughtless beyond the stars by a silenced revolution reviews
and i say, i will never write anything beautiful.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 7 - Published: 3/31/2008 - Complete
another fractured dreamer by a silenced revolution reviews
i'm just a ghost behind the computer screen
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 14 - Favs: 12 - Published: 3/31/2008 - Complete
slipped past my teeth by a silenced revolution reviews
with the lingering sense of silence
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 4 - Published: 3/29/2008 - Complete
we are the Different ones by a silenced revolution reviews
you told me you tasted yourself like a lie, a mistake never meant to be.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 4 - Published: 3/21/2008 - Complete
Relapse by vivabella reviews
Suddenly, soundlessly/No words, no explanation.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: 3/1/2008
pick a pseudonym and stick with it by a silenced revolution reviews
the way i change names is almost a sickness.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 2 - Published: 2/11/2008 - Complete
Stereotype Me by Zeurpiet reviews
so I can feel like I belong. [COLLECTION]
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 1 - Updated: 1/18/2008 - Published: 12/9/2007
A History Of Why People Leave by A Perfect Sonnet reviews
You watched me as if my face were a television I could use to charm you into anything, like the day I convinced you to be an electric elephant machine
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 472 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 11/12/2007 - Complete
whiskey & reasons by granny panties reviews
it was wrong from the start
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 11/6/2007 - Complete
Messages by Dextera reviews
Play this white symphony from a dream...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/6/2007 - Complete
Preservation Of An Atlas by A Perfect Sonnet reviews
The future was a complexity we didn't often care for as we inhaled radio static and braided our tongues into promises and swears.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Published: 11/6/2007 - Complete
brown cow by Mod-alcyone reviews
americans and idioms and things.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/18/2007
Blotted, Like Artwork by painting andromeda reviews
like love. like longing.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 14 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 1 - Published: 10/12/2007 - Complete
I, Too, Wish America by Ashes4 reviews
GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) take on Langston Hughes' poem "I, Too, Am America." Any reviews/criticisms welcome.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 6 - Published: 4/20/2005
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Realms of Incandescence reviews
Late April, we roam the forest of ourselves, floating like dandelions, drifting on the smoke of dreams. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/1/2010 - Complete
colorblind
losing his vision, he watches his palette shrink and feels himself going blind by degrees. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Published: 6/30/2010 - Complete
the ache of youth reviews
yearning for the forbidden. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/30/2010 - Complete
brine and beauty reviews
in the whorl of a nautilus, the ocean murmurs like a lover, seeping into your eardrums, flooding into your veins. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/28/2010 - Complete
the beast reviews
tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme: born under a cursed star, she discovers that even beauty has thorns. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/27/2010 - Complete
Emerald City reviews
She teeters down technicolor side streets, a tornado whirling in her chest. Is it strange, to feel homesick for a place that is not your home? Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/26/2010 - Complete
A Piece of the Continent reviews
His body has slept for fifty years deep beneath the hollow mountain, no longer asking for whom the bell tolls. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/25/2010 - Complete
the gloaming hour reviews
lips, drenched with want and wild roses, ask me to paint the dusk with words, and how can I refuse her? part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/24/2010 - Complete
portrait of the artist, as a young girl
woman cannot remake herself without suffering, for she is both the marble and the sculptor. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Published: 6/22/2010 - Complete
New York City reviews
Paradise consumed by fire; what remains, except urban decay? Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/21/2010 - Complete
Goodbye
You are afraid the undergrowth of your heart strangles every living thing. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Published: 6/20/2010 - Complete
Aubade reviews
While I sleep, you slip away, leaving sighs scattered in the corners of my room. But these words are proof, I did not dream you. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/20/2010 - Complete
Laws of Attraction reviews
Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/19/2010 - Complete
Sylvia reviews
In those days, we were two mad girls, infatuated with death, and arrogant enough to assume we were the only ones trapped beneath the bell jar. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 194 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 6/17/2010 - Complete
College Roommates reviews
Strangers meeting in a cinderblock cell, we unpack our boxes and neuroses side-by-side. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/17/2010 - Complete
the patron saint of wrath reviews
here I sit, smoldering beneath june's blood moon, ranting at the sky; it listens to me better than you ever could. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/15/2010 - Complete
Cirque de Moi reviews
Tonight, the sideshow takes center-stage, here in this hall of mirrors, squeezing my soul through a kaleidoscope. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 286 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Published: 6/15/2010 - Complete
Hook
In Neverland, all the whirring, gold clocks have stopped but one. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Published: 6/14/2010 - Complete
an open book reviews
your words, like splinters, lodge under my skin. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 3 - Published: 6/13/2010 - Complete
according to the garden reviews
rooted to the spot, my memory of you. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Family/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/11/2010 - Complete
Pinocchia reviews
Puppet girl, you're just waiting for your strings to be slashed. Tanka. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/10/2010 - Complete
translating the night reviews
the rain is tapping a love letter on my tin roof. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/9/2010 - Complete
ordinary symphonies reviews
the soprano on the corner of m street huddles beneath the flickering spotlight as she sings the city to sleep. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/8/2010 - Complete
the summer of crows reviews
if a pacifist shoots himself alone in a forest, do the trees woodenly applaud? blackbirds mourn your brother better than you ever could. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 217 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 6/8/2010 - Complete
On Leaving reviews
History sleeps here, where the sofa cracks form a map of fault lines, sunken patterns telling the stories of why people leave. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Family/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 301 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/6/2010 - Complete
The Insomniac reviews
As the world sleeps, he learns to dream in another way. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/5/2010 - Complete
Requiem for a Muse
Feverish and consumed by perfectionism, her voice vanishes from lack of use. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Published: 6/4/2010 - Complete
After
Her suburban life, cottage-cramped, seems Grimmer than what Disney imagined. Time to break character. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Published: 6/4/2010 - Complete
the green lady reviews
she lingers in her underground garden, wondering if the government will prohibit color next. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6/4/2010 - Complete
rites of mourning, songs of spring
a mother mourning, and the earth no longer laughs in flowers. part of june's creative odyssey.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Published: 6/4/2010 - Complete
Ashes to Ashes reviews
Her ashen face unmasks her peasant heart, crumbling to cinders as she realizes the courtiers' prattle resembles the chitter-chatter of mice, but crueler. Finally off-hiatus.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3/30/2010 - Complete
twelve reviews
and with every frantic blink of the strobe light, my memory of you flickers and fades before me.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 12 - Words: 1,796 - Reviews: 43 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 9/7/2009 - Published: 4/13/2008 - Complete
galileo's daughter reviews
I'm spinning out of orbit. it's midnight, and gravity is only a lunar dream.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 8 - Published: 10/14/2008 - Complete
painted midnight reviews
almost a villanelle: in the twilight of your soul, your secrets, like stars, are blurred and stolen. how they blind me at midnight.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 5 - Published: 5/20/2008 - Complete
geography of a heart reviews
unfamiliar terrain, this city I'm wandering in, where love is a drug peddled on every street corner, and the gates won't let me go.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: 5/18/2008 - Complete
wallflower reviews
she never quite caught the friday night fever.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/18/2008 - Complete
prisms and prisons reviews
sometimes I slip inside a metaphor to escape the confines of who I cannot be.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/16/2008 - Complete
the audacity of spring reviews
april 1st, the cruelest joke of all. how dare the earth be reborn while you are lying in a shell of dead wood! how can the seasons stomach it?
Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/17/2008 - Complete
Eden reviews
In the garden of Paradise, unknowing, you taunt me with forbidden fruit, the nectar of your skin shining sweet, like appleflesh.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 2 - Published: 3/21/2008 - Complete
how i live now reviews
no longer counting sheep, this self-induced insomnia has me wondering about the purpose of my ever-dwindling slumber and where my dreams have gone.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/22/2008 - Complete
Don't Listen reviews
Prose poem. Within these lines, the words scream to fill my silence, shriek with all I am not saying, all I never will.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 422 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/15/2008 - Complete
These Orchards of Birth and Bone reviews
The fruits of their labor lie rotted at the base of each lightning struck tree. Peach sweet, never to blossom.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 1/5/2008 - Complete
A Missive to the White House reviews
Your lifeless appeal to the American people is a red, white, and blue rhetoric. Washington is rolling in his grave.
Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 233 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 1/1/2008 - Complete
Pipe Dreams reviews
The letters assumed docile acceptance of the domestic symphony. But her dreams, grown from opium dens and in the Indian sun, are too big for chinaglazed Victorian ideals. She will not become another decoration in their beautifully empty homes.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1/1/2008 - Complete
Congratulations, Columbus reviews
This is the New World holocaust we don't like to talk about, what conquerors, seeking gold and glory, carried across the Atlantic. The Nina brought disorganization. The Pinta, disease. And the Santa Maria, death to the native people. Our inheritance.
Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12/31/2007 - Complete
Star Show at the Cinema reviews
As you watch the meteors plummet across the screen, my gaze is locked on you like a star coming home.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 3 - Published: 12/31/2007 - Complete
seven ways to die reviews
sylvia said, dying is an art, like everything else. inspired by the bell jar and lady lazarus.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 3 - Words: 394 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 12/23/2007 - Published: 11/23/2007
holiday on skid row reviews
christmas no longer a holy day in your house, but a bitter reminder of all that you lack.
Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12/19/2007 - Complete
ember reviews
and it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark. I'm on fire almost, I'm burning, but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/17/2007 - Complete
Epistle to the Victorians reviews
Woman, without her man, is nothing. Woman: without her, man is nothing.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Published: 10/9/2007 - Complete
Vermilion reviews
Winter sunset in ancient Greece. On her underworld throne, Persephone waits for spring.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 5 - Published: 9/2/2007 - Complete
bitter lullaby reviews
even nursery rhymes are no longer sacred...rockaby baby was never so dark.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/7/2007 - Complete
Mellifluous reviews
I am envious of your flute.
Poetry: Love - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/2/2007 - Complete
magnolias reviews
like the magnolias, you captivated me. though they've long since wilted, you still intrigue me.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5/30/2007 - Complete
watercolor days reviews
watercolor poets blur, but their words are etched like acrylic on my canvased mind.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 4 - Published: 5/30/2007 - Complete
trainwreck reviews
with the way man's been talking for centuries, you'd think the apocalypse was just around the corner. and who knows, maybe it is.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 260 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/30/2007 - Complete
the year reviews
oh caesar, I hate your spectred cage of divided time: these twelve months are too grand to fit in a pocket calendar.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 512 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5/30/2007 - Complete
moon scream reviews
what have our footprints been, but scars?
Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 3 - Published: 5/30/2007 - Complete
letters from walden reviews
even thoreau snuck back into boston for a glance at the new york times.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 3 - Published: 5/30/2007 - Complete
pandora's box reviews
a series of sketches of classical figures, both myth and man: newest are icarus and socrates. don't ask me why.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5/30/2007
epitaph reviews
bury me only if you promise not to look for these bones. and no, anna, this is not a suicide note, in case you were wondering.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5/30/2007
cocoon reviews
call me a suicidal butterfly if you will, but know that this prison is mine by choice.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 2 - Published: 5/30/2007 - Complete
cacophony reviews
chopin's exploitation of your ears never disturbed you before.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5/30/2007 - Complete
beautiful insomniac reviews
oh, to sleep, perchance to dream. But shakespeare seems to have forgotten we dreamers of the sleepless nights.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/30/2007 - Complete