My Stories 67
The House Prayer
In my father's house/ There is a table with gouges in it/ From where my mother once danced/ in high-heeled shoes.
Poetry: Family, K, English, Family, words: 612, 12/10/2012
1A Study in Silver »
No, the needles you imagine are more suspect, slipping under skin like operatives slip through the dark cover of night, through vein-like alleyways, crossing the arteries of major sparkling roads of yellow flashing headlights...
Fiction: Mystery, T, English, Angst & Hurt/Comfort, chapters: 3, words: 1k+, updated: 4/10/2012 published: 4/3/2012
Rabbits
The houses, painted in sepia-toned yellows and dusty browns, each with their own carefully measured driveways that bake under the heat of the sun by day, home to sprinklers and colorful plastic-woven lawn chairs draped with the nearly melted residents...
Fiction: Mythology, K+, English, Angst & Spiritual, words: 1k+, 2/13/2012
Millicent
The elderly are our salvation.
Fiction: Sci-Fi, T, English, Parody & Sci-Fi, words: 623, 1/13/2012
On Memory
I list off the symptoms like bullets of feathers.
Poetry: Life, K+, English, Angst, words: 428, 12/20/2011
1Carnival
Owls roost on splintered beams/ Where catacomb thespians try to dream
Poetry: Life, K+, English, Spiritual & Poetry, words: 231, 12/20/2011
Proper Kings
I'm reminded that lovers are poor.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, Poetry & Romance, words: 207, 12/20/2011
Dreamscape »
This is the book of dreams, collected short stories from a somnolent mind.
Fiction: Mythology, T, English, Spiritual & Drama, chapters: 7, words: 3k+, 12/19/2011
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Blue Eggs
Close your eyes again- We're still hatching.
Poetry: Nature, K+, English, Poetry, words: 341, favs: 1, 12/19/2011
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Kisses to the Queen of Spades
I collect artificial consciences/ from religion to razor blades/ kisses to the Queen of Spades/ This is when I notice that everybody's clapping but me
Poetry: Life, T, English, Angst & Hurt/Comfort, words: 692, 11/27/2011
Ode to the Woman Crying in the RestStop Bathroom
Water trickling from the faucet/ Tiled floors bathed in incandescent light/ Words of the hopeless etched on the walls/ She's hoping it won't find her here tonight
Poetry: Life, K+, English, Hurt/Comfort, words: 201, favs: 1, 11/6/2011
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Propaganda Sleeping
"Day after day we shambled to the machines, eager to beat back the symptoms of withdrawal by plugging in and tuning out." A piece exploring how the mind can be molded, changed, dreams swimming at the touch of a button.
Fiction: Sci-Fi, T, English, Sci-Fi, words: 1k+, favs: 1, 10/5/2011
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What Summer Gave Us
There's this urgency to do things at the end of summer, because we know we're all getting sent back home, back to the crowded cities and the uniform suburbs. The air feels a little different now, and things are just perfect and beautiful.
Fiction: Young Adult, K+, English, Friendship, words: 480, favs: 2, 9/26/2011
7Hordes »
Whatever you may call them- Night walker. Undead. Devil. Reanimated. Infected. Ghoul. Umkhovu. Zombie. A series of short stories chronicling the rise of the dead and the love, life, spirit and people who survive- and the ones that don't.
Fiction: Horror, M, English, Horror & Romance, chapters: 4, words: 14k+, favs: 5, follows: 2, updated: 9/25/2011 published: 3/6/2011
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Starry Eyed
I keep weaving through the crowd and the outside world seems to matter less and less and then I'm in the crowd, and we're all jumping, and I feel like a part of something for once, a part of this wave, this MOVEMENT...
Fiction: General, T, English, Drama & Spiritual, words: 1k+, favs: 1, 9/16/2011
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Watch It Burn
For Anna, life is hell since her father showed up at her mother's house, drunk, angry and violent. Her only escape is the boy in her head, the boy who can protect her and take the pain away, if only for a little while. M for violence and abuse.
Fiction: General, M, English, Family & Hurt/Comfort, words: 2k+, favs: 3, 7/30/2011
The Color of Fuchsia
Frozen for a second/ The picture is the color of fuchsia/ Comic-book blood on yellowed pages
Poetry: Life, K+, English, Drama & Poetry, words: 87, favs: 1, 6/20/2011
2Out of Love
But we're fresh out of Love/ I'm not sure when we'll get another shipment/ The supplier's not doing so well/ You know, with the economy and all
Poetry: Love, K+, English, Angst & Romance, words: 146, favs: 2, 6/20/2011
A Calling on the Wind
But I'm selfish, and I'll have to ask you to wait, 'cause I'm not done here yet.
Poetry: Life, T, English, Hurt/Comfort & Angst, words: 219, favs: 1, 6/5/2011