Title:Â The Convent Ruins
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: G-
Warnings:Â Angst
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica #24. November 6, 2001. Original commentary: "to that one, who remains always in my heart and in my mind; solve et coagula."
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Title:Â Basking in Starlight
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: G-
Warnings:Â Schmoopy and angsty
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica #23. November 5, 2001. Original commentary: "for someone here, who knows who he is." This one is for Starrynight… who married and then divorced the girl of his dreams.
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Title:Â Indecision — the Meta-Sonnet
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: T
Warnings:Â Mild expletives
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica #22. November 5, 2001. Self-referential poetry at its least subtle. I was pretending that changing the gender refs would make it sneaky. I fooled no one, not even myself.
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Title: Falling, Face First
Fandom: Vortex
Characters: Serapi, Boy
Rating: G-
Warnings: Drunkenness, implied shenanigans
Notes: It's someone's truth… I remember it. I want to say this one was written in 2001.
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Title: Immeasurable, the Waste Land
Fandom: Vortex
Characters: VonGraeding
Rating: T
Warnings: Expletives, violating the cultural norms, rampant Gonzo Journalism
Notes: I was young, and sincerely fed up. And yes, VonGraeding does wear velvet opera dresses when he's feeling campy.
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Title: Strawberry Bats
Fandom: Sweet Jane
Characters: Jane
Rating: T
Warnings: Expletives, surrealist thought
Notes: This was part of a never-completed and mostly lost surrealist epistolary novel. These were the days when love meant being beaten severely with a strawberry flavoured aluminum baseball bat — in a strictly synaesthetic sense.
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Title: Late Nights With J.W.'s Nose
Fandom: Vortex
Characters: VonGraeding, Pisswater, Angry Jonny
Rating: M
Warnings: Bathroom humour, gross explorations of famous locales
Notes: I spent a late night in a local (fairly famous) slop joint, and these are the cultural assumptions I made from what I could see. I was taking way too much Anthropology, at the time, and it was starting to affect my brain.
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Title:Â The Swank Tiger
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: G-
Warnings:Â None
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica, #21. June 16, 2000. These are NOT going up in order, they're going up in the order I find them. This one's for Emory Swank… Wherever you are, I'm still waiting.
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Title: The Morning of Fear and Loathing
Fandom: Vortex
Characters: VonGraeding, Thisbe
Rating: T
Warnings: Expletives, irrational behaviour
Notes: I was on my way to San Jose, and this wasn't the time with the [expletive deleted] FTP server… I really hate airports, airlines, and the creepy people one has to sit next to while travelling… Here, let me take you back a ways, and tell you a story…
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Title: Gorey the Ghastly: an apocryphal tale
Characters: None
Rating: G-
Warnings: None
Notes:Written upon hearing of the death of Edward Gorey, back in 2000. The world lost a brilliant man, that day.
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