also,

[truegrit]

I'd like to add on to my request below (for people to send me writings of theirs). I made it sound like I only want non-fiction essay-type stuff, but I'd also like fiction, poetry - basically as long as it has a title and I can pretend that it's an entire book that needs a cover. My friend is hopefully sending me a horror story she wrote when she was 11 about mannequins coming to life and killing people.

Also as long as I'm here, here's an interesting bit of awesomeness: Howard Hallis' "Picture of Everything."