To me, love is painful. And I never want to fall in love. Do I sound bitter? Well I am, but I don’t mean to sound that way because the case of my bitterness isn’t what’s fueling my decision. I’ve seen love, and all of its casualties up close, and in my eyes all it does is harm someone. You’re happy for 20% of the time and the other 80% you’re left worrying, crying, angry, or worse. What’s 20% even worth to that much pain? And what happens afterwards? When they destroy you, when they break you in…
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Added by molly on June 1, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Letters is an ongoing series of free-verse poetry snippets. From the POV of Ian Baraati, of Chaos Rising fame, they give a unique perspective on his conflict with John Corsica, Omega's 'mad scientist' on the ethics of his work and its ramifications.
Snippets follow in no particular order.
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Added by Catherine Rivet on October 15, 2008 at 6:44pm —
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...is an older piece I've returned to since the crash, and jumps between the Bull Courts of ancient Mycenae and the Greece of modern day.
When a pair of acolytes in service to the Bull Court stumble into a plot to kill a Mycenaean noble, they inadvertently change the course of history. But legends grow with the retelling, and not everyone is so willing to forgive and forget the failed assassination. Especially not the would-be killer.
Three millennia and some later, that dark past resurfaces a…
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Added by Catherine Rivet on August 28, 2008 at 11:45am —
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...is a new piece just getting on its feet. It was started on a new disk, and thankfully safe from the disaster that wiped out everything else.
Children traces the work of the Yewes-Ser, an 'historical society' seeking evidence of the immortal beings of legend living in the modern day and its inevitable collission with an isolated Bedouin tribe sworn to keep the secrets of their people precisely that: secret. Conflict arises when the Yewes-Ser discover that two of their own aren't what they see…
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Added by Catherine Rivet on August 28, 2008 at 11:11am —
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*Something* killed my backup ZIP drive, and in the process wiped everything I'd had saved to said disk at the time of the crash. And I mean completely wiped, as in the computer doesn't even read it as an empty formatted or unformatted disk. It's as though the disk itself doesn't exist when you insert it in the new drive. Being the backup copy, it shouldn't have been such a big deal...except that just prior to that my hard drive crashed and lost the original. Ergo, *everything* I've worked on sin…
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Added by Catherine Rivet on August 28, 2008 at 10:58am —
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Gods is yet another experimental piece: a work of high fantasy blended with ancient mythology and modern politics. Adam Peyton, history scholar and story-teller extraordinaire relays a tale of magic, love and betrayal only for his captive audience to realize that the 'fairy stories' are in fact reality and that the world is in danger from forces beyond their control.
Excerpts following are in no particular order.
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Added by Catherine Rivet on June 28, 2008 at 7:58pm —
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Chaos Rising made its first appearance in the early '90s under the working title
Omega 19 as an experimental work in political fiction/intrigue/sci-fi and shortly after merged with the
Dark Storm universe of a friend and co-author. Over the years, the characters have taken on a life of their own with several spin-offs delving into their pasts and how the special ops team at the core of
Chaos Rising came together.
Arcs include:
Omega Phoenix (
The Haliday Project…
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Added by Catherine Rivet on June 28, 2008 at 7:39pm —
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In loving memory of Carolyn Colbert
1945-1998
The short series 'For Love of Music' began life as a college admissions essay intended to honor all those who promote a love of music, particularly in the young. A segment of the original work was later published under the title 'Carolyn's Tribute' for the choir director instrumental in the salvaging of my musical career at a point in my life when I was considering giving up music all together. Sadly, she passed away shortly before 'Tribute' was rel…
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Added by Catherine Rivet on June 28, 2008 at 5:17pm —
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I'm not sure what I'm going to write
Too many words that have no rhyme
A few cliche lines,
You're the best, you're number one
But I want something that hasn't been done
Something that has yet to be chosen,
So here it goes
A couple of things I want you to know
You are the soft haze of a beautiful rainbow,
The warmth I need when the world gets too cold
Tender arms to caress and hold
A magnificent woman worth more then gold,
You are my strength when it gets too rough
You're the reason I don't w…
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Added by J_Byrd on June 6, 2008 at 10:30am —
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Hey everyone! Just want to tell everyone that I may be getting one of my stories published!!!! It's the one called Your Secret Admirer! I have a friend who has a friend that publishes books and writes them etc. So keep your fingers crossed and wish me luck!! I'm so excited!!! lol
Oh and I will be posting the next chapter of Your Secret Admirer maybe later today or tomorrow. As for A Taste For Blood. I'm still working out the kinks in the second chapter! Also I might put up my other story called…
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Added by J_Byrd on May 30, 2008 at 11:58am —
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"Kimberly, come get your breakfast while it's still hot!" My mom yelled up the stairs to me as usual. I was still in the bathroom putting make-up on and fixing my hair.
I looked in the mirror and framed my big brown eyes with my black eyeliner that I wore every day. "Hmm , I'm running out I better get some more." I thought as I put the lid on the quickly disappearing eyeliner. I quickly brushed through my brown hair and ran downstairs.
"Finally." my mom said jokingly. I looked at the pancakes…
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Added by Sarah on May 24, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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Hey I am going to be using my blog to post stories that I have written and such so yeah I am posting up a new one soon so please read it thanks
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Added by Sarah on May 24, 2008 at 1:58pm —
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Author's Note!: This is my first time EVER writing a vampire story. And would like to know what everyone thinks!! Hope ya'll enjoy! :D
The night has finally fallen. A few stars begin to sprinkle the sky. So much has changed since the eighteen hundreds. Change that hasn’t particularly been so kind to me. Technology has become better. Which means it’s harder for me to hunt. The wind picks up as I scale the church walls. Owls hooting in the forest, asking who has disturbed this holy place.…
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Added by J_Byrd on May 14, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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I lay in my pool of sorrows under the cold water of which I have cried, looking up at the stars that I want so bad but, just can't reach. I am in this pool of hate and lies grasping at air that I want to breath. You tried holding me back from the life that I wanted the life that I craved. Making me a victim of your games and a toy to your needs I want to drown in the pool of my sorrows and run to the place I crave. To reach the place where no one can hurt me. To go where you can't reach me, but…
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Added by Amanda on May 5, 2008 at 5:53pm —
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You lied to me my whole life. You are not who I thought you were and I am not who I thought I was. My life has been all about the lies that you lead because you lie I don't even know who I am. Why is this that your life has to be? Cant you just tell the truth about my life? About who I am? Can you leave that man that you really don't love? Can you choose me your daughter over him? Or will you keep lying? Will you keep pretending to be happy and fine with him. Do you still think about the man tha…
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Added by Amanda on May 5, 2008 at 5:51pm —
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She walks around with a plastic smile. Pretending everything is fine. She pretends her life is the best. When inside she's dying, sick of all the crap. Wanting to end her damn life. Wanting to just go away, because nobody knows, nobody could understand all she's been through. Nobody would notice she thinks in her head if I left today never to return. But she keeps that smile. Plastic, never letting her true feelings show.
Then with a gun to her head and the bite of the bullet on her mind she pu…
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Added by Amanda on May 5, 2008 at 5:51pm —
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You waited for me time and time again. Waiting for me to say yes to the question you asked me so many times. You waited as I found out that my life wasn't so great. Your hands and arms staying wide open for me to fill. You stood besides me as I got rid of the one that didn't love me. You stood behind me holding me up as I fought against the ones who hurt me. You are my shoulder I cry on. The person I run to when things go wrong. You make everything in my life feel better. You make me laugh throu…
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Added by Amanda on May 5, 2008 at 5:50pm —
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You say you want me to leave, but I am sure that if I walked out that door, away from you away from everything, you would beg for me to come back. You would beg on your hands and knees for me to come back and be your pleasure. But, once I leave I will never come back. I will never look back on this life that you gave me. I wont cry myself to sleep anymore because you hurt me. I will be happy to be away from you because you wont hurt me anymore.
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Added by Amanda on May 5, 2008 at 5:49pm —
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He stares at me his eyes judging me for why I don't know. He askes me questions only a lover would ask. He stabs me with stares making me feel naked inside. Reading my thoughts never giving me a moments peace. I ask and pled for him to let me be, but he wont he just wants to stare at me. I move away, running from the pain. But it comes to haunt me. The eyes, the stares, the looks of deceit and lies as I wonder about my house at night. I run faster farther, but I cant get it out. They still come…
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Added by Amanda on May 5, 2008 at 5:48pm —
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She crys alone in her own world. Her skin a ghostly reminder of her life. Thinking about the things that she once had. Thinking about the life that she lived. She crys inside never showing the tears that are streaming down her face. For if she showed those tears people would just point and laugh. She wishes that she could go face the pain that she has but she is weak. On the outside she is strong facing her fears and the people that causes those fear, on the inside she is scared, wondering what…
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Added by Amanda on May 5, 2008 at 5:47pm —
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To be nothing... (Prologue)
Letters From Chaos
Things I Want You To Know
The Darkest Night [Chapter 1]
My Sorrows-
