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“How difficult it is to be the only crimson petal…”


AGE!: 20
SEXUALITY!: irrelevant
what I enjoy READING!: Love stories with realistic complications, almost anything historical, extremely flawed characters, true stories
what I enjoy WRITING!: Things I've experienced

LIKES!:
sweet tea, Disney movies, the female body, sour candy, parties, running, reading, writing, Victoria's Secret, musicals, and all that jazz
DISLIKES!:
the sound one makes when eating a banana, zombie movies, mirrors that lie, my mother's ideas, stereotypes, organized religion
GOALS!:
finish school, financial security, publish one novel
FEARS!:
Any type of failure, dependence, getting mugged

HERITAGE!: Scottish/Irish/English
HOMETOWN!: Baltimore, MD
SIBLINGS!: Both younger
PETS!: rescued pit bull named Dodger

Favorite MOVIE!: Gone With the Wind
Favorite SONG!: Ruby's Arms by Tom Waits
Favorite ACTRESS!: Kate Winslet
Favorite BOOKS:
*The Crimson Petal and the White by Micheal Faber*
*The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
*Through a Glass Darkly by Karlen Kohen
*Her Shining Splendor by Valerie Sherwood
*Secrets to Keep by Sheila Holland
*The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen

INSPIRATIONS!: Life, Love, People
Musical Influences!: Billy Joel, James Taylor, Damien Rice, Annie Lennox, Johnny Cash, and many many others
Celebrity Crush!: Nikki Reed

Anything ELSE?: Sometimes I even put a little cranberry juice in my vodka

My Stories

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  • I’m not going to write about roses and dancing and tender kisses. This isn’t my love story, its my only chance for salvation.
    3300 words, 3 comments, March 6
  • I wait for the red to settle in and dominate as it always has before; I dread it.
    1700 words, 4 comments, February 6
  • Simple, really. Logical. And certainly better than any explanation I can come up with.
    600 words, 2 comments, January 31
  • I realized now, more than ever, that I loved the man standing just inside my humble doorway.
    2200 words, 1 comment, January 26. In Love

My Poetry

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  • Now, forget the early sky’s inspiring hue
    And all my gentle ‘good morning’s
    <100 words, April 17
  • It's more than a keepsake
    That cheap silver dangling at my wrist
    <100 words, March 26
  • It isn't until that orange dawn
    Breaks over the old factory sign
    <100 words, 1 comment, March 26. In lost love

My other items

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