Kazuki Mishima
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Joined 06-26-07, id: 572982, Profile Updated: 05-27-11
Author has written 58 stories for General, Life, Family, Essay, Humor, Friendship, Haiku, Nature, Romance, Play, War, Love, General, Religion, and Politics.

I'm Kazuki Mishima (三島和希). That's actually a pseudonym, but these I don't mind telling you that my real name is Dominic Delabruere. I like food. I have one story on my FanFiction.Net account.

I've stopped posting stuff here mostly because, after a couple years of university study, I decided to start saving my work for submission to literary journals. A lot of what's here is primordial work from my high school days.

A note to all you emerging writers in the US: if you've been working on your writing for a few years, and you'd like to pursue publication in print and all that, there will come a point when you need to stop posting your work in places like fictionpress.com, cool web site though it may be. That way you can submit your work to literary magazines (if it's short pieces) or book publishers (if it's books). For a while I didn't know what to do with my writing, but now I'm told that's what one does with it these days, so I thought I'd let you all know, 'cause I know most of you are young whippersnappers like me with nary a clue about publication and such.

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Vending Machine by subito video reviews
A slam poem about vending machines and a world takeover by machines.
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 336 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/4/2007 - Complete
sometimes i sit by abstractelysium reviews
sometimes i sit and catch my breath.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 2 - Published: 3/8/2007
My Stolen Heart by RuathaWehrling reviews
Angelina Williamson is 15 and waiting for a heart transplant when she learns that her new heart has been stolen! Oneshot short story
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,674 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/22/2006 - Complete
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Now a wind
A poem about March rainstorms, celebrating Pi Day.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Published: 3/14/2011 - Complete
why i need an antihistamine
looking outside i did not see / the body of a jumper; they had finally / taken it away after it had stayed there / for hours they diverted traffic
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Published: 3/10/2011 - Complete
To Drink Is Madness reviews
My first impression of living in Manhattan for school. Published in my school's literary magazine along with "BPM."
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 492 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 9/10/2010 - Complete
BPM reviews
A poem about medical procedures. Published this in my school's literary magazine a while ago under my real name.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 252 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 9/10/2010 - Complete
Snow Day
Air sits dully festering.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Published: 2/11/2010 - Complete
X and I
I surveyed the burning wreck at number 14. After 20 years of silence, X had returned.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 469 - Published: 2/5/2010
Now I am bone
Blue Sky retreated and left me with an arthritic soul.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Published: 12/3/2009 - Complete
An Ember reviews
Would smoking give me the right to stand on street corners?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/20/2009 - Complete
Unintentionally Hugging Strangers
There is an uninvited darkness in the streams of observation coursing through my mind or stomach as I read the prices on the café menu.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 240 - Favs: 1 - Published: 9/1/2009 - Complete
My Heart Becomes Ice Cream
I have an apartment in Astoria with huge windows.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 636 - Published: 8/20/2009 - Complete
Variations on the Swimmer
an imagined dialogue between Aung San Suu Kyi and John Yettaw
Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Published: 8/11/2009 - Complete
Speak Softly reviews
Speak softly, dear one.
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8/2/2009 - Complete
The Warmth of Our Socks reviews
At this cold latitude, human civilization is most deeply indebted to the warmth of our socks.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 822 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7/11/2009 - Complete
war museum
facing models of cruel weaponry
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Published: 4/9/2009 - Complete
The Tree by the Cabin by the Cool, Cool Lake
A tree stood by a cabin by a cool, cool lake.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Published: 2/10/2009 - Complete
dull plastic sunshine
The morning he had awaited so eagerly brought the old man only defeat.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 159 - Published: 12/31/2008 - Complete
If I Had a Pen reviews
If I had a pen, I'd write a song for all the empty rooms.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/23/2008 - Complete
Half lives reviews
Half the memory is gone, then half of that.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11/12/2008 - Complete
Night Sun
When the lotus seat droops, the mind fades away.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Published: 10/29/2008 - Complete
The Rise and Fall of Gemini
An astronaut remembers the events that left him alone in his capsule.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 635 - Published: 9/15/2008 - Complete
The Crippled Man's Ammunition reviews
He knew that he was fully prepared when he felt the weight of the pistol land in the pocket of his favorite hooded sweatshirt, and there was something else he knew - something no one else guessed.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Crime/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 544 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Published: 7/24/2008 - Complete
Small Town Story reviews
Alone at night, I told myself a story about a small town.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7/20/2008 - Complete
Paradise Dilemma reviews
There must be a problem in paradise.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/20/2008 - Complete
Nine Months Ashore reviews
I imagine that she came to the light unwillingly. Now she lovingly holds another in the darkness.
Fiction: General - Rated: M - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 535 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/15/2008 - Complete
A Day In the Sun
a monologue
Fiction: Play - Rated: M - English - Hurt/Comfort/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 264 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/8/2008 - Complete
folds of perspective
waiting at a table
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Published: 4/7/2008 - Complete
harmony of waves reviews
an intricate tidal chart
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4/7/2008 - Complete
with child
don't make me jump I'm with child
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Published: 3/25/2008 - Complete
California reviews
Last night I dreamt you went to California... This poem is based on the experience of others.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12/2/2007 - Complete
My Blue Winter reviews
I wrote these on a road trip.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 4 - Words: 159 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 11/25/2007 - Complete
Un buen amigo reviews
Escribí esta poema para una clase de español.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - Spanish - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/17/2007 - Complete
Nuestro gato guapo reviews
Nuestro gato es bastante guapo.
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - Spanish - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/17/2007 - Complete
Hold Me Closer
I only feel like this sometimes.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Published: 11/17/2007 - Complete
storm
This was my entry in a timed magnetic poetry contest.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Published: 11/17/2007 - Complete
PAPA reviews
Papá corta pollo. El Papa habla sobre la iglesia. La papa se enmohece.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - Spanish - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9/28/2007 - Complete
To Home
I wrote this on a road trip a while ago.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Published: 9/27/2007 - Complete
Stay reviews
I've had this poem stored on my graphing calculator for a while.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9/27/2007 - Complete
Some Shade of Us reviews
I felt such a pure joy there.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9/21/2007 - Complete
Why the Eagle Calls reviews
This poem really doesn't say anything about what I believe. It's about my thoughts when I visited the construction site at Ground Zero in New York City.
Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9/6/2007 - Complete
Broken BricaBrac reviews
Closet junk can cause many emotions.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8/26/2007 - Complete
Since I Met John Heely reviews
I wrote this psychoanalysis scene for some friends, and it revolves around an esoteric joke. Others might enjoy it somewhat, however.
Fiction: Play - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 349 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8/16/2007 - Complete
You Gave Me Lemonade reviews
The beginnings of what was going to be a story of romance amidst a violent socialist revolution. Currently on possibly permanent hiatus.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,114 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 8/14/2007
Noble Sidewalks reviews
This is a second experiment with haiku stanzas after Bathtub Longing. The imagery of this piece may be inferior to that of Bathtub Longing, but I am reasonably pleased with the results.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 57 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8/14/2007 - Complete
Ghost of the Great reviews
This is a short, humorous story with something like a moral.
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8/14/2007 - Complete
Summer Reading reviews
This poem is about an emotional personal difficulty.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8/14/2007 - Complete
Forest at Night reviews
There were times when I would be lost for a few minutes in a forest at night.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7/15/2007 - Complete
Lemonade reviews
Summer drags on.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7/7/2007 - Complete
Dear John reviews
I'm not sure what this one's about. I think it may sound a little more depressing than I intended. I don't think I meant this poem to be about suicide, but one might think so after reading it.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7/7/2007 - Complete
Groggy Still Life reviews
These are the toughest mornings.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7/7/2007 - Complete
Heroes reviews
This is my theory on heroism.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/7/2007 - Complete
Bathtub Longing reviews
This is five haiku stanzas about a wandering mind in the bathtub.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/7/2007 - Complete
Before the Cliff reviews
This is a simple poem about alienation between people who admire each other.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6/30/2007 - Complete
Golden reviews
This is a short, sweet poem about the importance of gold.
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K - English - Humor/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6/30/2007 - Complete
Marvelous Mind Machine reviews
This is a short poem about confusion caused by sleep deprivation.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6/30/2007 - Complete
Proud Really? reviews
This is a reflection on failed nationalism.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 258 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/30/2007 - Complete
Bright Red Tractor reviews
This is a story of a little girl growing up in a large family on a farm, told in free verse.
Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,107 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: 6/30/2007 - Complete
With Branches shifting over me reviews
This is a short poem written in homage to and immitation of Emily Dickinson.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/30/2007 - Complete
We play in light reviews
This is a collection of poems inspired by the poetry of famous poets. It is a celebration of poetry in its various forms.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,110 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6/30/2007 - Complete