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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 > Poetry Poetry: Nature: 56 of 578

From a Dream The 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 nose and disappear as swiftly as they come. Whiskers, sharp as swords, twitch in the cold ignorin...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: I am a woman: 6 of 44

"That Woman" I wonder what it's like to be "that woman." The woman who walks in the room and demands everyone's attention. The woman with the dark eyes full of mystery and magic that draw both men and women and make them yearn to know the secrets hidden within. The woman with the cascading raven hair that evokes ballads from...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Feelings: 121 of 747

AN IRONIC REALIZATION The room was empty. I sat upon the wooden floor. Papers scattered around me gently stirring with the breeze. One window, faded curtains moving in their ghostly dance. Light streamed in The bright afternoon sun? Perhaps the mystic of moonlight? I hear a howl. Some far off wolf calling to nothingness or a...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Romance: 37 of 205

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 star...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Intimate: 25 of 82

Forever Unfulfilled Don't touch me I'm not pretty Turn off the lights And pretend I'm someone else. My confidence and allure Are a charade I hide behind The truth inside Is that I will never be satisfied. In the darkness You won't see my tears My moans won't waver Despite the lump in my throat. I am forever alone As the empt...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Fantasy: 161 of 358

A Forgotten Magic Chapter One A Dangerous Friendship Section 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 ent...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Then & now: 23 of 49

What Was and Will Never Be I loved the boy he was I don't know the man he has become. I thought he was hurting me I was the one causing pain. I thought he didn't love me I didn't know how to love myself. I thought I could do better I didn't know what I had. I broke his heart I knew nothing of my own. I abandoned him for my b...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Working Parents Can working women be good mothers?: 4 of 8

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....
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Magical fantasy: 103 of 116

Chapter Twenty One Fate 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 ha...