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I've been writing since I was 12 years old and it all began with a mechanical pencil and a college-lined 5-subject spiral notebook. I can't even read half of those smudged scribbles now! I've always had a very active imagination and it's gotten me through

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Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Romance: 9 of 226
Racing the Line Chapter One Contact One...two...three, jump! That was the rhythm that had guided Shiara Lee through the jumping competitions of her first outdoor sport of horseback riding. Though it offered no pertinent help in the current situation, it inevitably entered her mind as she sat astride her superbike at the start... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: I am a woman: 4 of 48
"That Woman"I wonder what it's like to be "that woman."The woman who walks in the roomand demands everyone's attention.The woman with the dark eyesfull of mystery and magicthat draw both men and womenand make them yearn to know the secrets hidden within.The woman with the cascading raven hairthat evokes ballads from minstrels... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Feelings: 127 of 818
AN IRONIC REALIZATIONThe room was empty.I sat upon the wooden floor.Papers scattered around megently stirring with the breeze.One window,faded curtains movingin their ghostly dance.Light streamed inThe bright afternoon sun?Perhaps the mystic of moonlight?I hear a howl.Some far off wolf callingto nothingnessor a forlorn dogbeg... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Intimate: 15 of 65
Forever UnfulfilledDon't touch meI'm not prettyTurn off the lightsAnd pretend I'm someone else.My confidence and allureAre a charade I hide behindThe truth insideIs that I will never be satisfied.In the darknessYou won't see my tearsMy moans won't waverDespite the lump in my throat.I am forever aloneAs the emptiness within gr... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Nature: 151 of 633
From a DreamThe wear-worn pads of his whitish-gray paws,fur matted and frozen in snow, claws coated with ice,crunch through the white chilled blanket of flakes of frozen rain.Pants of breath form small clouds about his ebony noseand disappear as swiftly as they come.Whiskers, sharp as swords, twitch in the coldignoring the gl... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Fantasy: 163 of 387
A Forgotten MagicChapter OneA Dangerous FriendshipSection One She broke the surface of the water and gasped breath into her air-deprived lungs. They were all gone. Her entire clan swept from the surface of the world of Aindar. Taken by a magic so malevolent it had sunk not just the city that had imprisoned it, but the entire ... More..
Parenting & Pregnancy > Working Parents Can working women be good mothers?: 4 of 9
There isn't such a thing as a perfect mother so striving for that would be ridiculous. A stay at home mother might give children a sense of stability and safety that they might not feel if their mother was working outside the home. However, in today's world nothing is a certainty.So can a working woman be a good mother? No. S... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Magical fantasy: 100 of 116
Chapter Twenty OneFate and Consequences (Excerpt 1) Thalya Waylen stood nervously in the center of the marble courtyard dismayed by the destruction of one of the pillars her ancestors had imported years ago though knowing the castle would never be her home again. She had always believed the marble tiling in the courtyard had ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Then & now: 44 of 47
What Was and Will Never BeI loved the boy he wasI don't know the man he has become.I thought he was hurting meI was the one causing pain.I thought he didn't love meI didn't know how to love myself.I thought I could do betterI didn't know what I had.I broke his heartI knew nothing of my own.I abandoned him for my better lifeI ... More..