Penny used to talk about how brave I was, how nothing scared me. Not the endless, swelling sea to one side nor the dark, silent woods to the other. She called me fearless ( Read more... )

The day after my sixteenth birthday, my mother took me to the matchmaker ( Read more... )

Like a beggar asking for change, I held out my hand, but she didn't seem to notice it hanging in the air between us ( Read more... )

Title: Lonely
Rating: G
Word Count: 904
Summary: I wrote this a million years ago for my Spanish class in college. I eventually translated the whole thing, but here's the English version.

( From that moment on, she knew she belonged to him. )

Title: Regrets
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 683

( That would kill me, man. Hearing that motor coming around the corner in my house everyday. It would fucking kill me. )

Title: Big. Bad.
Rating: PG-13 for language and a wee bit o' violence
Word Count: 1110
Description: Modern-day Red Riding Hood retelling. I've missed the fairy tale retellings (or, you know, writing of any kind).

( The name they'd given him was an apt one. )

Title: Automaton ( Read more... )

Title: An Anachronic Condition
Rating: G
Word Count: 1240
Summary: The year is 1911 and Theodore has just proposed to the woman he loves, but the secret of her origins is too great to ignore. (That's right, melodrama, pre-Great War style!)

( You were something else entirely. Like a creature from a Greek myth. )

Title: Stay ( Read more... )

Title: Plunge ( Read more... )