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AGE: 26
LOC: Pittsburgh, PA
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: April 24

What is a biography for other than saying who I am and what I’ve done? It seems simple enough, right? Behold, my sheepish expression as I try to word something together that makes me seem even quasi-interesting! Watch me also as I fail miserably.

Regretfully, all I am is an aspiring author who has worked away at her style and other technicalities since middle school. I typically try to utilize my otherwise useless college degree in some way no matter the story. Myths are a by-product of human existence (or intelligent life, for that matter), and I like to work such stories into the main frame of whatever I’m doing.

Also, thanks to my dissertation, I’ve developed an extreme interest in the concept of the antihero. Unfamiliar? Think …

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Novel Treatments / Seeking Saturn
Version 2
0 Reviews   0 Comments
My sex life was just about dead…dead before it even had a chance to properly begin. There was still a pulse, last I checked, but I knew that the crows were beginning to circle, hovering patiently over the flailing hormonal urges, waiting for them to croak and be done with it so that the carrion feasting could begin. It was like menopause was a mere breath away, that point in any woman’s life where one inconvenience is replaced by another, and the reviews were mixed. The first option: about fo...
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Crime, Thrillers & Mystery / Resonance - Draft Chapter 1
Version 1
8 Reviews   2 Comments
That particular smell was unmistakable. It clung to the wind like chewing gum to a hot sidewalk, possessing its own particular gooeyness that oozed its way along the path from nostrils to lungs with the sole intent to choke and revile. It was an odor that favored Dumpsters, bogs and septic tanks the world over, and encountering it in the middle of the city’s Botanical Gardens was what primarily raised the alarm. The body of the gentleman turning out to be the source didn’t seem nearly as surp...
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Novel Treatments / Seeking Saturn
Version 1
9 Reviews   5 Comments
My sex life was just about dead...dead before it even had a chance to properly begin. There was still a pulse, last I checked, but I knew that the crows were beginning to circle, hovering patiently over the flailing hormonal urges, waiting for them to croak and be done with it so that the carrion feasting could begin. It was like menopause was a mere breath away, that point in any woman’s life where one inconvenience is replaced by another, and the reviews were mixed as to which option was be...
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Short Story / Gwynt a Mellt
Version 1
10 Reviews   2 Comments
"Do you remember, Derwen? Do you remember when the sky was any colour we wanted it to be, when the grass was softer than anything, and when it would snow rainbows in summer? Do you remember the tree house we had? It even had a tire swing that Tad had found at the old rubbish heap outside of town. We'd play there all the time. Of course, you'd always get the centre of it all, but I didn't mind. You'd earned that place, after all. "Aye, you heard me right. You earned it. You were always there w...
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Version 1
12 Reviews   3 Comments
From the time when mankind developed the capability for abstract thought, the same major questions have been pondered time and again: where do we come from? Did someone make us? If so, who? Why are we here? In virtually every single culture around the world, this series of inquiry has been answered in much the same manner, either through organized religion or some other belief in the supernatural. Monotheism, polytheism, ancestor spirits, and divine forces, all found a foothold thanks to the ...
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You essentially said to ignore the grammar/linguistics, so I'll do that. I will say that there's quite a bit of smoothing out to be done, but as it is, it has this particular lyric quality that is at the same time confusing and beautiful. I knew what you were talking about, but at the same time, I didn't. A thing to work on, but I, oddly, enjoy reads like that. It's a linguistic thing, like a dialect of English I'm not familiar with. Anyway, the story itself is engaging. The world you're crea...
Flash Fiction / Worship
This is an intense piece despite how brief it is. You establish your character and general setting concisely but adequately, and we're led to understand the loyalty to the faith but the bitterness that taints it at the same time. Your conclusion is direct (and to the point, with no pun intended there), yet it still leaves some room for ambiguity. We as the reader can draw the likely outcome, but there are no guanantees with any author. If you take this and turn it into something larger, there...
Haiku/Senryu / The Writer's Cycle
The word 'insomnia!' rang out in my head as I read this, and isn't that usually the way of it. Up all night suffering Writer's Block (or an overly intense imagination that won't let you rest), and still having to be stuck trudging through reality when all is said and done. The dual meaning that I'm perceiving is the aforementioned creative insomnia, or the fact that real life (eg., work and the daily grind) are completely uninteresting to those of an artistic bent. Your meter was impeccable. ...
Non-fiction / Snags
Death by laughter! This was terribly clever, and had me wondering at first what it was even about...then if it was about a simple styling or a hair cut...then a possible shave. It reminded me of the satyrical ethnography of the Nacirema (minus the daily homage payment to the swirling porcelain vortex). There is also a word-of-mouth skit regarding a new father performing a diaper change, equating the whole incident to an encounter with a caged beast. Unfortunately, the performer's name totally...
Sci Fi & Fantasy / Agita Chapter 1
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