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Flowers in Fading Hands
About addiction, and all of the desperation and paranoia that comes with it.Poetry: Life, T, English, Poetry & Drama, words: 219, 3/23/2010
2 Hymn to Gibberish
This is about a dream I just woke up from about a half hour ago and the computer was on, so I wrote it down real quick before I forgot about it. Quite honestly, I wouldn't blame you for thinking me a psycho for this.Poetry: Fantasy, T, English, Horror & Sci-Fi, words: 179, favs: 1, 12/28/2009
4 Life, More or Less
Hopefully I can get back on here writing again. This one just popped into my head after, to my embarrassment, I suffered an agaonizing bowel movement and thought I was about to end up in the hospital. Its really scarier than you think, try it some time.Poetry: Life, K+, English, Poetry & Spiritual, words: 158, favs: 1, 12/28/2009
8The Golden Curse »
Alteng and his friends try to recover a lost treasure that once belonged to his wife, which is also coveted by an evil mastermind for a different purpose. Part of The Further Adventures of Altenglisch Hans Cuxhaven, in perpetual progress.Fiction: Fantasy, T, English, Fantasy & Adventure, chapters: 4, words: 10k+, updated: 7/2/2009 published: 7/27/2007
2Sleep of a Ruined Age
From the Adventures of Altenglisch Hans Cuxhaven. Alteng seeks out his old off-and-on nemesis, the mystic and sorceror Juin Li, in order to help a friend return from beyond.Fiction: Fantasy, T, English, Fantasy & Adventure, words: 3k+, 4/19/2009
2 Forever and Ever, Again
This is a companion piece to "A Still, Small Voice", and by now the narrator has seen enough to eithr drive him mad, or terribly sane.Poetry: Song, T, English, Poetry & Sci-Fi, words: 554, 3/26/2009
3 Scenes from a NearForgotten Grave
Based on a story my girlfriend may not have written yet, but its coming someday. A sad one about visiting the grave of the wife who died in childbirth, and the husband largely blamed himself for wanting a large family.Poetry: Life, K+, English, Poetry & Hurt/Comfort, words: 697, 2/27/2009
4 To Walk in Eternity
This is more free-form, with no annoying beats to count and very little rhyming. And no, it's not about vampires either.Poetry: General, T, English, Drama & Sci-Fi, words: 669, 1/16/2009
3 The Final Words of Comfort
You can cheat death but still not beat him.Poetry: Life, T, English, Poetry & Drama, words: 503, 1/6/2009
4 Ready or Not, Here I Die
A poltergeist-type story, partially inspired by "The Changeling" starring George C. Scott, and also from some other stories heard through the years. Really though, why would anybody want to haunt this rotten world anyway?Poetry: Fantasy, T, English, Supernatural & Horror, words: 673, favs: 2, follows: 1, 8/30/2008
3 The Passenger
I was very depressed when I wrote this because I'm about to turn forty, but if you stick around long enough it will happen to you too, so I guess now I don't feel so bad after all. Just step up and take a ride, its free, and it only happens once...Poetry: Life, K+, English, Poetry & Drama, words: 391, 6/21/2008
2 The Product of the Company We Keep
Do you buy into whatever comes along without kicking the tired?Poetry: Politics, T, English, Poetry & Drama, words: 359, 5/30/2008
3 Into the Sunset
It happens to the best of us, and the worst, the end.Poetry: Life, K+, English, Poetry & Angst, words: 599, 5/15/2008
3The Laughing God »
Alteng and friends race against their enemies to be first to discover the truth behind legends of an ancient weapon of mass destruction, which has been twisted into a religious cult in nineteenth century Ecuador.Fiction: Fantasy, T, English, Adventure & Fantasy, chapters: 2, words: 6k+, updated: 4/25/2008 published: 2/3/2008
4Midnight at the Crossroads »
From the Adventures of Alteng Cuxhaven. After World War Two, Alteng must once again meet with the goddess Dolora of the Whispering Eyes, with her offer of redeeming himself in the eyes of his god, and also to bring back to life his dead wife, Narrinda.Fiction: Fantasy, T, English, Fantasy & Supernatural, chapters: 3, words: 8k+, updated: 4/12/2008 published: 8/11/2007
5 The Path More Traveled
Originally written to be inserted into a chapter of one of my girlfriend's other stories she wanted a drinking song, it was rejected for being too serious, so here it is for you instead.Poetry: Life, T, English, Poetry & Drama, words: 310, favs: 1, 12/8/2007
1 The House of Empty Air
From the further adventures of Alteng Cuxhaven. Alteng and Narrinda attempt to rescue a girl from an old ancestral home with a vengeful spirit.Poetry: Fantasy, T, English, Fantasy & Supernatural, words: 1k+, 10/14/2007
2The Black Pharaoh »
Part of the further adventures of Alteng Cuxhaven, more of which will come later. Alteng faces an ancient being known as the Black Pharaoh and his minions in order to help an oppressed people, find a cure for his cursed wife, and get filthy rich too!Fiction: Fantasy, T, English, Fantasy & Adventure, chapters: 4, words: 9k+, updated: 9/29/2007 published: 5/20/2007
3 The Dancing Girl's Tale
About a woman whose life has gone wrong, but she's given a second chance by the only man who ever really loved her and has been trying to find out whatever happened to her. This could be read in a more spiritual sense, as a sinner redeemed before the endPoetry: Life, T, English, Drama & Angst, words: 376, 7/28/2007
5 The Phoenix That Fell
About a long but unstable relationship that keeps rising from the ashes, but not forever.Poetry: Life, K, English, Poetry & Drama, words: 363, 12/20/2006
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