Title: Persian Rhapsody
Fandom: N/A
Characters: N/A
Rating: T
Warnings: Faint suggestions of questionable behaviour
Notes: Pretty sure this was spring break 2002. I was at a truly excellent party, surrounded by fabulously gorgeous people who were all punching each other in the face. Yeah, I got in on that action. It was AWESOME. But, this is one of two songs from that epic event.
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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: 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: 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: Butterflies and Coffee
Characters: Ume-kun, Serapi
Rating: G-
Warnings: None
Notes: Wrote this in 1999, late summer, maybe early fall. This one was for J.S., who I seem to have offended the shit out of shortly after this. We haven't spoken since December of the following year, if not before that… Time gets fuzzy as it passes, but it's been a good many years.
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Title: A Cowboy, an Offworlder, and a Killer for Shoes
Characters: Julia Roarke, Amelia Bayer, Marc Marquette, William/Willie, Doug Burke, and an unfortunate poodle.
Rating: T
Warnings: Bad grammar, murder, animal cruelty.
Notes: Written in 1998, with three other people from my class, for an assignment in collaborative writing. If I'm not mistaken, the characters (except the offworlder) are theirs, and the writing is primarily mine. Yes, I know there's a sudden tense shift. I take full responsibility for that. Also, the text of this post was OCR'ed from the only copy left, so I'm slowly editing it into legibility.
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Title:Â Life is Bigger…
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: T
Warnings:Â Envy. Abuse.
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica :: March 3, 1998. Yeah, so, I said something about 'my fault', in the last note. I wasn't kidding. The swishy Queen Bitch, over here, has had a thing for damsels in distress, and occasionally kicks over into ass-kicking knight in shining armour mode. Tits and chocolate frosting will no longer cause me to extract you from your shitty relationship, beat up your boyfriend, and then buy you breakfast.
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Title:Â Isolati
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: T
Warnings:Â Death. Wangst.
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica #11 :: March 3, 1998. I hate this one. A lot. I was going through some shit with the wife, at the time, and well… I was a fucking mess. I was watching her come apart, and there was nothing I knew how to do about it. In the end, I was a fag, at heart, and she was a lesbian. It ended really poorly, later that year, as these things do. Also, I would like to publicly state that it was my fault, and I'm a dick, just in case you like me and were thinking of blaming her or the circumstances. We're still good friends. I'm still in love with her.
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Title:Petrarch on a Pike
Fandom:N/A
Characters:N/A
Rating:PG-13
Warnings:Bad early-modern English, unpleasant imagery
Notes:Ars(e) Poetica, #1. February 26, 1998. This one's for Verezzi…
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