Cylindrical Minutehide bio
Author has written 11 stories for School, Love, Essay, Life, Young Adult, and Religion. to joy on the edge of a cyclops and spinet - The Velvet Underground Mina Lowell, otherwise known as Cylindrical Minute. 19 years of age. Presently a college senior studying chemistry. An inelegant poet who occasionally dabbles in prose. I like caffeine and conversation more than I like sleeping. A lot more. Get at me. Current Works in Progress (aside from my sporadically posted poetry): Infinity - “The ‘best year of our lives’ came up tasting of college apps, coffee, Parliaments, projects, scandal, Svedka, and sleep-deprivation.” Six high school seniors versus the final hundred and eighty days. Broken Circles - the summary's down there. Fair warning, it's probably not going to get updated until like 2014. nothing's getting updated until further notice because college is hard and life is shit. |
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I think it's Alzheimer's by josephdavisonduddles reviews
A poem based upon real life events regarding a life with Alzheimer's disease.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/7/2012
This is Me When I'm Formal by LyricalBelletrist
I grew up with my dad declaiming Spanish classics and a slim volume of all Shakespeare's sonnets. For all that, I have no idea what it means to write within a form. These are my attempts; they're not too bad. I hope.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 261 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/21/2011
Also Known as Anorgasmia by in theory reviews
More than writer's block, but not much.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 4 - Published: 5/10/2011 - Complete
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Infinity reviews
"The 'best year of our lives' came up tasting of college apps, coffee, Parliaments, projects, scandal, Svedka, and sleep-deprivation." Six high school seniors versus the final hundred and eighty days.
Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 858 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 1/4/2012
I Am Not Catholic reviews
I sat in the pew, disillusioned with it all.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 538 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/24/2011 - Complete
Electrically
quaking, quivering / so rough the printer threatens to shatter.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Published: 10/31/2011 - Complete
Instead of Doing Work reviews
These poems all have the common denominator of school. Maybe they were written in school, or about the education system, or about someone I go to school with, but they're all alike in that respect.
Poetry: School - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 10 - Words: 2,736 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 10/30/2011 - Published: 3/18/2008
Broken Circles reviews
The year is 2314. Education is segregated, fully given along with other privileges to those deemed gifted enough to use it. But what happens when even the gifted disagree with this? And what of the draft sucking up the brightest minds into a mindless war?
Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,838 - Reviews: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 7/23/2010
Disenchantment is a Ghastly, Many Layered Onion reviews
At the close of junior year, I've realized the point of school. Everything is always a means to an end. Rated T for one curse word.
Poetry: School - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 405 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 6/22/2010 - Complete
2:30 reviews
at night, i suppose, i am happy because everything is quiet and nothing can bother me.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 392 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2/28/2010 - Complete
The Cycle
In freshman year, you're happy. In sophomore year, you want to rebel. In senior year, you need to get out. Four years can change you so much, and once you leave, there are always those who take your place.
Fiction: Essay - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 650 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/19/2009 - Complete
you two reviews
I took two of my classes and managed to relate them to the feelings I have for two guys. Math and Chemistry. The ones I slept in this year.
Poetry: School - Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/2/2009 - Complete
Final Thoughts
I staggered through Chemistry regents, dreaming of the end, dreading the Math B, while memories of this year swirled around me like blankets of February snow, cold and enveloping, as I wondered if this was where tenth grade finally ended.
Poetry: School - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 507 - Published: 6/25/2009 - Complete
We'll Run Away reviews
I thought that maybe there would be some way to escape. Even if we can't, it's nice to dream. You said so, too...
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 330 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/29/2009 - Complete