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Joined 04-21-10, id: 721682, Profile Updated: 10-05-12
Author has written 6 stories for General, Fantasy, Mystery, General, and Sci-Fi.

Literary agency intern, Turkey City participant, web dev for author Lisa Tuttle, magical realist.

Bruce Sterling told me I was talented and ripped my work apart in the same breath, which will probably be the pinnacle of my career.


I created The Weather Centre, a forum focused on becoming a published, professional author and on brainstorming ideas. I'm a member of The Review Game and The Globe.


WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

John Keats

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advice of a dead pigeon by InkyPink reviews
It is a squashed pigeon. On the pavement. And it still has something to say.
Poetry: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 4 - Published: 11/24/2010 - Complete
The Broken God by improvisationallychallenged reviews
Sonnet challenge for Write the Wrong
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 2 - Published: 7/25/2010 - Complete
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To walk in perilous paths
Excerpt of a novel in progress. Loess, a foraging specialist, is one of a squad sent to establish a new settlement in the wilderness north of the Albion Human Preserve, the only human settlement left in the island that used to be the U.K., after the natural world became hostile to humans.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,878 - Published: 6/19/2019
The Weather Channel Novel Workshop reviews
Up to six weeks' work for workshoppers to comment on. Working title: "Ugly Ink" (NaNo 2012)
Fiction: General - Rated: M - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 8 - Words: 16,810 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Updated: 11/27/2012 - Published: 10/15/2012
Moonlit
She opens her lips and brandy slips down her throat like burning oil. Her sinuses fill with the memory of spring honey. Courtney Tully is dead, which means someone's out to break her heart.
Fiction: Mystery - Rated: M - English - Sci-Fi/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,150 - Published: 10/11/2012
Sleep (working title)
The trees grow black fruit—good for making pies. If you eat it raw you spit out seeds like caviar. The juice is purple and stains your teeth. That night you'll dream of rot and sharp angles, abandoned things, the growth of mold on concepts.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: M - English - Horror/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,864 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/9/2012
Maybe & the Wolf reviews
We forget fairy tales come from dark places. (Sample chapters of a completed manuscript.)
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: M - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 7,889 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 10/1/2012 - Published: 9/30/2012 - Complete
Ten Minute Soliloquys reviews
OBJECTIVE: BE AS DRAMATIC AS POSSIBLE IN 10 MINUTES.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Parody - Chapters: 2 - Words: 194 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8/8/2010 - Published: 8/3/2010
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