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Joined 12-29-07, id: 594079, Profile Updated: 04-16-13
Author has written 60 stories for Fantasy, Love, Song, War, General, Nature, Humor, General, Friendship, Politics, Life, Supernatural, Haiku, and Family.

Of the moment: new job, Edna St. Vincent Millay, flower petals, used book stores, Les Miserables, Keats, Baudelaire, braids, floral print heels, Vikings, Fra Fee, George Blagden, Aaron Tveit, belly dance, Next to Normal, ice cream, The Taming of the Shrew, cinnamon tea, dresses, scones, The Concrete Jungle, Greek myths, musicals, old book smell, and I'm writing again. Guys! I'm writing again!

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all i ever wanted by young and the reckless reviews
there's so much more to being young these days. this is my life, become a part of it if you dare.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 166 - Words: 27,584 - Reviews: 348 - Favs: 27 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 10/21/2011 - Published: 9/4/2009
the writing equation? by no.peace.los.angeles reviews
this fog in my head, how my thoughts
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 258 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Published: 6/4/2011 - Complete
Dead by Queenofshiva
“I’m trapped by my own mind,” he said. She nodded. Then he realized that she wasn’t there, because he was at home, and he was alone.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,079 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/4/2011 - Complete
moonlight by this requires thought reviews
running at three in the morning.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/20/2010 - Complete
Untitled by CheyneThunderfoote reviews
A poem to my autistic son
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/17/2010 - Complete
premenopausal by no.peace.los.angeles reviews
no, i tried.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 325 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Published: 12/4/2010 - Complete
wild, wild midwest by young and the reckless reviews
we'll see how this goes.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: 6/13/2010 - Complete
welcome back by no.peace.los.angeles reviews
it was like a cleansing
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 3 - Published: 6/12/2010 - Complete
to dance is to live by no.peace.los.angeles reviews
she will break her toes. written for february's writing challenge contest via the review game forum.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 2/6/2010 - Complete
Storm by Carrie Petropolus reviews
What is it about storms that makes them so...romantic?
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/23/2010 - Complete
Silence by systematic surprise reviews
Wrote this in the middle of the night. It wouldn't get out of my head so here it is. R&R please!
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/7/2010 - Complete
Moving by Wiggity Wam reviews
seldom at rest
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 354 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/4/2010
Discoveries by Wiggity Wam reviews
prove it
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/26/2009
artificially beautiful cancer by young and the reckless reviews
you have never fell so far.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/25/2009 - Complete
immolation by no.peace.los.angeles reviews
sings in forest fires
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/17/2009 - Complete
Nobody by Saikai reviews
Nobody loves me, everyone hates me.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: M - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/17/2009 - Complete
love me like it's only the clocks that have broken by young and the reckless reviews
replace time with infinity and mend a few hearts.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 5 - Published: 9/2/2009 - Complete
technicolored dreamland by young and the reckless reviews
-where hopes are glittering shards of broken glass, and nonsensical drabbles define my life. --pillowbook? eh, sorta. via poetry&prose.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 99 - Words: 16,042 - Reviews: 288 - Favs: 23 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 6/27/2009 - Published: 3/27/2009
Mikey Final by native.youth reviews
This is my full personal narrative for my CIS class. The first one is my first minor paper, this is the full paper that is due.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,309 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/3/2009 - Complete
Battle Scars by systematic surprise reviews
please review
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/15/2008 - Complete
healthy snacks for lovers by no.peace.los.angeles reviews
i once seduced a celery stick
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 4 - Published: 9/21/2008 - Complete
In Your Arms by emmaliefje reviews
A lonely poem born of a lucid dream that must never have happened, somewhere in a rainbow...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Drama/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/18/2008 - Complete
Fire by systematic surprise reviews
about a forest fire......sort of
Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Poetry/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/26/2008 - Complete
Closure by emmaliefje reviews
The heartbreak that never happened, but the pain that tore a heart. Please R&R!
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 5 - Published: 5/12/2008 - Complete
Afraid to sing by purewhiteshadow reviews
This was an assignment in creative writing that i had to do. The style of poetry is called a Pantoum. It has a specific pattern to it that can get rather repetative.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 215 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 3/13/2008 - Complete
Demeter, Earth Mother by Tranquil Thorns reviews
Based on the myth of Demeter and Persephone. Told through Demeter's eyes. Change of seasons.
Fiction: Mythology - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 795 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 3 - Updated: 3/11/2008 - Published: 5/29/2007 - Complete
Running by LyricsArePoetry reviews
It's about a girl who's been in an accident that's left her unable to walk, but she keeps dreaming she is running
Fiction: Spiritual - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 375 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 3/8/2008 - Complete
Asher and Sage by burning in effigy reviews
they call it suicide but he calls it murder. "she was going to be my drug induced ecstasy." -experimentation-
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 6 - Words: 1,445 - Reviews: 39 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 1/21/2008 - Published: 10/28/2007 - Complete
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Archetype of a Weeping Lady reviews
I was made to be loved.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/22/2013 - Complete
Tallest Tree
I was windswept and pistol-whipped
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Published: 10/10/2013 - Complete
Near Sighted
Maybe I'm just blind
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Published: 5/15/2013 - Complete
Hades and Persephone reviews
Hades is distressingly co-dependent. Persephone makes do. Hermes checks in. Demeter rages. A series of poetic dialogues. (please note: i'm writing these as they occur to me, so chapters are going to be moved around to give the story some semblance of chronological order)
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 4 - Words: 1,600 - Reviews: 3 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 5/13/2013 - Published: 3/8/2013
It seems that
I'm losing you
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Published: 4/12/2013 - Complete
His Olive Branch reviews
not having you is such a relief.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 318 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8/9/2011
Portrait of a Girl and Gramophone reviews
i am the corner of an empty room
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/30/2010 - Complete
snow reviews
i feel your sadness in the landscape
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/30/2010 - Complete
Scaffolding and Dreams reviews
n.y.c.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/22/2010 - Complete
The Dance reviews
moves me like a lovers touch.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12/22/2010 - Complete
Seeker reviews
i'm so grateful.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - Spanish - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 9/25/2010 - Complete
Parasol reviews
mimicking the tilt of her smile. you wish you were there
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 4 - Published: 8/25/2010 - Complete
I bring the weather with me reviews
I've got joy in my body in a little black dress
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 267 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 7/20/2010 - Complete
Hop Scotch reviews
wouldn't you rather?
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/2/2010 - Complete
Hitchhiking reviews
what's it like?
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 239 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 3 - Published: 6/23/2010 - Complete
Love reviews
noun: 1.an intense feeling of deep affection, a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone, a great interest and pleasure in something 2. a person or thing that one loves 3. in tennis a score of zero. verb: feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 191 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/7/2010 - Complete
Write A Poem reviews
a prompt: you need it.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/7/2010 - Complete
Boom Boom Ah reviews
this poem is rather...sexual.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Published: 5/14/2010 - Complete
two separate delicious things reviews
the greatest risk and sweetest reward.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/5/2010 - Complete
gift reviews
the smallest kindness
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1/23/2010 - Complete
real love reviews
not to be confused with true love.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1/15/2010 - Complete
A Siren reviews
with a little dash of Shiva.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Published: 1/12/2010 - Complete
Flapping reviews
as hard as I can, and yet...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 1/11/2010 - Complete
Serendipitous Disaster reviews
can't come off my cloud long enough to realize that i'm falling.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 1/4/2010 - Complete
The Baobab Tree reviews
sometimes you have to put yourself first.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12/28/2009 - Complete
web reviews
i.am.a.monster
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 12/28/2009 - Complete
splatter paint reviews
it's okay to just let things be
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 2 - Published: 3/10/2009 - Complete
FrEaK reviews
it only takes a word to hurt someone
Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3/10/2009 - Complete
black widow reviews
sometimes people blinded by love are in the most danger.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3/10/2009 - Complete
Hereditary reviews
anything can trigger a memory.
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Family/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3/10/2009 - Complete
Distantly reviews
Sometimes distancing yourself from someone is the best thing you can do for them.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/26/2009 - Complete
Temple reviews
Goddess's are not perfect. They are only beautiful.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1/26/2009 - Complete
The Idol Cut reviews
a new feeling for me: that I belong to no one but myself and I am glad of it.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/26/2009 - Complete
Out of My Mind reviews
This poem is not about insanity don't let the title fool you ....well only the harmless kind. Read and review if it pleaseth you.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/17/2008 - Complete
Puppet Lies reviews
there's nothing keeping you together, but there's no reason to leave.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6/30/2008 - Complete
Tragedies of Wind and Sea reviews
Man vs. Nature in the rawest sense. Humanity vs. the Sea. Used to be a oneshot. Could become a series of vignettes. Maybe...
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 2 - Words: 716 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Updated: 6/13/2008 - Published: 6/7/2008
What Was reviews
four word prompt: roads, yellow, summer, beach. the result: sometimes you just have to put things behind you.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/4/2008 - Complete
The Bottom of the Bowl reviews
the prompt: write a poem about a salad. this is the result. goes along with my perpetual inability to write anything noncynical...uncynical? . enjoy.
Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 5/18/2008 - Complete
Hold my Hand reviews
please
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/22/2008 - Complete
not so perfect reviews
you can cover it up with lip gloss and foundation, but your personality will burn straight through.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/22/2008 - Complete
monster and prince reviews
i see what you really are.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4/22/2008 - Complete
Protest reviews
the ideal place to voice your opinion: the beach.
Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4/16/2008 - Complete
All That I Am reviews
sweet little poem about giving, receiving and hoping.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 219 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/15/2008 - Complete
Blame reviews
this is how i keep myself alive in english class. a poem about sterility...not exactly happy.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4/15/2008 - Complete
You Cannot Silence Me reviews
the war against censorship.
Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4/15/2008 - Complete
Feel reviews
you can't let out what you won't let in.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 173 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4/15/2008 - Complete
Cityscapes and Cigarettes reviews
rather bleak view of the world. R&R!
Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4/5/2008 - Complete
PeekaBoo Tree Branches reviews
hmmmm i suppose i wrote this back when i believed in free will...
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 272 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/5/2008 - Complete
And Still We Try reviews
your life hasn't turned out quite how you wanted it to, but that's not as terrible as it might seem.
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 250 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3/28/2008 - Complete
The Taste of Friendship reviews
when your best friend is the bottle, what more can you expect from life?
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 452 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3/27/2008 - Complete
Dumb Chick Lit reviews
a satire. the title says it all. just making harmless fun at that lovely genre of young adult fiction for girls.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 559 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 5 - Published: 3/21/2008 - Complete
View of the World reviews
from an ant's perspective
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3/14/2008 - Complete
One Warning reviews
Don't fly too close to the sun, my Icarus.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 3/14/2008 - Complete
word play reviews
it's a love/hate thing because no matter how much you annoy each other, you can't bear to leave.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 3/14/2008 - Complete
Abstract reviews
a trippy poem written while i was sick. if you can make sense of it, please enlighten me.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3/7/2008 - Complete
Revenge reviews
How does it feel when a part of you dies? very angry poem. has been revised a tad.
Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/23/2008 - Complete
Nothing You Can Do reviews
don't let me stop you
Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/23/2008 - Complete
Hunter's Lament reviews
A roar of fury, the beast bursts forth/An arrow sticks from its bloody corpse/Moon be my witness, stars fall like tears/Trapped in night as death ever nears.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/23/2008 - Complete
This Fire reviews
Gather around this fire/Listen to the drum
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 2/23/2008 - Complete
Noble Knight reviews
i see you for what you are
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 241 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/23/2008 - Complete