Stories

I am like an animal;
crawling, slithering through the dirt.
Everyone around me sings with joy
while I am wounded, broken, hurt.
I am played with like a toy,
a tattered picture book,
turned to whatever page They want to see
but They never really look.

The Light Catcher

Twisting, twirling through the air:
one side truth, one mendacity.
At ( Read more... )

Okay, so I put what I have so far in the best order I have for now. I've decided that Annabelle is not a fully-fledged journalist. Instead, she's an advice columnist. The first three letters in this entry are in exact order, and the rest of them are chronological but with a lot of space in between them.

( Dear Annabelle )

Synopsis: I was inspired by the situation between Son of Sam (New York serial killer) and Jimmy Breslin (journalist). Son of Sam wrote to the newspapers and Breslin started a column and wrote back. I decided to take that idea and expand it into a more personal correspondence.

( So here's a letter from serial killer James Handen to journalist Annabelle Bailey. )

Title: Mr. Darling
Rating: R
Warnings: rape, dark themes, dystopia

Prompt(s): dystopias; "What would it be like to live in a world where we didn't respect our environment, our homes, our schools, our roads, or each other?"

Summary: In Erica’s world there was no such thing as a good person. Respect and integrity were obsolete - things only mentioned ( Read more... )

We are soon to be starting a shoebox project in my creative writing class, and the first step is to figure out what types of things our shoebox needs to contain and/or display. But of course we have to do it creatively ( Read more... )

Hey, remember this? Well, I'm guessing I didn't win anything or get into finals, because nobody's told me anything and I'm not anywhere on their website.

Anyway, the rules were to take some idea from history somewhere that was wrong and make it right or continue it in the future; a "what if" story. It had to be no more than 350 words, including the ( Read more... )

This was done for original-fic bingo, B-5 "hunger".

Universe: And the Dead Doves Fell
Characters: Qori, mentions of Nika
Rating: PG-13

( That kind of hunger doesn't bother Qori. It is easy to sate and quickly goes away after she feeds herself. What Qori mostly hungers for is him. )

I am going to do this. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19561
I've already pretty much flopped on NaNoWriMo; I will for sure not make very much progress on ATDDF this month.

But this is only 350 words, including title! I can do that. Even in twelve days...

Okay, so. Ideas. They'll come to me, right?

CHAPTER ONE & TWO
Title: 01. Accent Piece, 02. The Woman Before
Universe: And the Dead Doves Fell (ATDDF)
Characters/Pairings: Jane Dest, Thomas, Nika/Qori
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: vague flashback?

AN: These are the first two chapters of my novel-to-be, which I hope to have finished before or around my sophomore year in college. I think the most I' ( Read more... )

Forgiveness ( Read more... )