<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906</id><updated>2011-08-01T11:27:04.415-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Collections Of Writing</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>ArtisticVamp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09321038748959608454</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v2zVP73GnjI/TNswcCASXYI/AAAAAAAAAAM/fGmJzNQRrHs/S220/IMG_1291-1.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>35</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-5349475576504662270</id><published>2010-11-02T10:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-02T10:10:05.242-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fay Manor</title><content type='html'>This is a prologue to a horror story I started writing several years ago.  I intend to finish it, and have started transcribing it from the original handwritten pages to my computer. 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&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;Fay Manor is located in Ireland.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It was built on a hill overlooking a little town called . At first Fay Manor was a beautiful and cheery place, with a big garden surrounding it.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It was a gorgeous garden, with roses and ivy climbing over the walls, wild flowers flowing from every available space, and delightful flowering trees that always seemed to be full of birds. The children from the town would go and play in the garden, as it was considered a safe haven for all living creatures.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Back then, it wasn’t called Fay Manor, no back then it was known by its’ original name, O’cleary Manor.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It was a grand place that had been in the O’cleary family for generations, and was owned by the last of the O’cleary line, an older, well to do couple.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;Both of the O’clearys loved having the children over.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Their own marriage had been without any child of their own, so they treated the children of the town as their own, offering advice and caring for them all.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Mr O’cleary would watch the children dance and play as he worked on the gardens, answering any questions they had about the names of the flowers, while Mrs. O’cleary would bake cookies and other treats for the children to eat.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;For many years only peace and contentment reigned within those garden walls.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Then came ‘The Accident’.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;It was all anyone in the town could talk about for weeks, in hushed voices and whispers the rumors around it spread.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Those rumors drove away the children, who now feared to go anywhere near the once peaceful garden.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;They broke the soul of Mr. O’cleary and destroyed the joy held by Mrs. O’cleary, though they were not to blame.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;You see, despite the amount of children that visited the garden, there had been one boy who had never been able too.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;His name was Dillon. Though his brother had frequently visited, and told him wondrous tales about the garden, the trip was not one Dillon could take.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;When he had been a young boy, a disease had ravaged the poor boy’s body, and left him a cripple.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Dillon could not go anywhere without a crutch and a brace, that left his stride with a pronounced limp.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It was hard for him to walk anywhere, but especially hard for him to go up hills.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;But climb the hill he did.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It was hard work, but Dillon wanted to see the garden his brother was always describing.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The manor and garden sounded like a haven to him, a place where troubles and worries would fall away, and everyone could be happy.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Dillon craved that, so he forced his legs to move, and made his way slowly up the hill.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Though it took him awhile, when he reached the garden he felt that it was all worth it.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Everything was as his brother described, the children were playing games, there were flowers everywhere, and the O’clearys were happily watching and laughing the antics.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He was hooked.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;After his first trip, Dillon continued to go back.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He honestly felt like it was worth it, he had found a place where he could be accepted and be at peace.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;And the O’clearys loved his as well.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Mrs. O’cleary always had an extra treat for him, and Mr. O’cleary would spend extra time with him, making sure he stayed safe.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;No one could be happier than Dillon was during those days.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Never before could he be very active, but with help he soon became more active.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;His favorite thing to do was be helped into the trees, where he would sit above everyone, laughing and taking it in.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It was that bit of happiness that lead to such tragedy.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;For it was from one of the trees that ‘The Accident’ occurred.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Dillon was once more sitting in one of his favorite trees, smiling and laughing, when Mrs. O’cleary came out with yet another tray of treats for the little ones to consume.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Mr. O’cleary turned his back on Dillon for just a second, to watch as they flocked around his smiling wife, and in that instant everything changed.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Though there had always been birds in the garden, they were the sweet and colorful songbird type.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;None of them were very big, but that day a new type of bird came to the garden.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Ravens.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The first raven landed right in front of Dillon, startling him so badly that he lost his grip.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Crying out, time seemed to slow for him as he began to fall out of the tree.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He hit the ground with a sickening thud, a thud so loud it caused all other noises to cease and all creatures to turn in his direction.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Silence followed, then a strangled cry came from the throat of Mr. O’cleary as he began to run to the crushed body at the base of the tree.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;At the noise, life returned, and the children all panicked.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Terrified, and not quite sure what had occurred, they fled the garden, screaming and incoherent.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;All but for Dillon’s older brother, whose stories had encouraged Dillon to come to the garden.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He slowly began to walk towards his brother, his pace quickening as he got closer.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Tears streamed down his face, but he seemed unable to speak as he reached his brother’s side.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Pushing Mr. O’cleary aside, he drew his brother’s body close, and cradled it to his chest rocking back and forth.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;It was this scene the villagers stumbled upon.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The panicked children had driven the town into a flurry of worry, and they had come to see what had happened.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;At the front of this herd was Dillon’s father, who had not seen either of his boys’ amongst the children, and had rightfully started to worry.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Coming upon such a sight broke something in him, and he stood frozen as his eldest walked towards him, still holding his brother.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;As a group, the towns’ folk walked back down the hill, no one able to say a word at the sight of the mangled body, all of them trying to shelter the now wrecked family.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;A funeral was quickly and quietly planned for Dillon, and his body was laid to rest.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Afterwards, the children stopped visiting the Manor.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Though no one blamed the O’clearys for what happened, they blamed themselves.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Unable to stand the memories, they left the manor behind, moving far away from the village. No one else moved in, and gradually both the garden and the manor held only sadness, and the shadows of times passed.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Strange things seemed to occur there, and the villagers avoided even looking at it.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Darkness and disrepair ruled where once happiness had shined, and rumors of a curse began to circulate.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;Soon it received a new name, Fay Manor.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Home only sprites and ghosts, the manor sat empty and alone for a very long time.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;No one went there except for boys on dares, though even they never went as far as the door. No one, that is, until I went there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-5349475576504662270?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/5349475576504662270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=5349475576504662270' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/5349475576504662270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/5349475576504662270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2010/11/fay-manor.html' title='Fay Manor'/><author><name>Zandra</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TQLXoaPNZ1A/SPm0WSPp-5I/AAAAAAAAAAM/jtNB2STSAjI/S220/IMG_1604.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-2854397916166729301</id><published>2008-10-18T03:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T03:42:09.244-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Eternal Slumber&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Slash of wrist&lt;br /&gt;Left and right&lt;br /&gt;Flow of blood&lt;br /&gt;End of fight&lt;br /&gt;Drink of death&lt;br /&gt;Slips down throat&lt;br /&gt;Deep in darkness&lt;br /&gt;Away you float&lt;br /&gt;If you slip&lt;br /&gt;Into eternal sleep&lt;br /&gt;Will they notice&lt;br /&gt;Will they weep?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hidden Within&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A deep darkness&lt;br /&gt;Consumes the soul&lt;br /&gt;Makes black abyss&lt;br /&gt;An empty hole&lt;br /&gt;Dark deppression fills&lt;br /&gt;This hollow space&lt;br /&gt;Of light happiness&lt;br /&gt;There is no trace&lt;br /&gt;But hidden deep&lt;br /&gt;Is this fact&lt;br /&gt;Most emotion shown&lt;br /&gt;Is just an act&lt;br /&gt;Rare is seen&lt;br /&gt;What's felt inside&lt;br /&gt;From the world&lt;br /&gt;The truth I hide.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-2854397916166729301?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/2854397916166729301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=2854397916166729301' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/2854397916166729301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/2854397916166729301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2008/10/eternal-slumber-slash-of-wrist-left-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TQLXoaPNZ1A/SPm0WSPp-5I/AAAAAAAAAAM/jtNB2STSAjI/S220/IMG_1604.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-201110181657815677</id><published>2008-10-18T03:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T03:38:44.017-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I live with it inside me&lt;br /&gt;The hurt, the pain&lt;br /&gt;I live with these emotions&lt;br /&gt;Making me go insane&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I deal with what I’m given&lt;br /&gt;These thoughts that destroy&lt;br /&gt;I deal with how I’m livin’&lt;br /&gt;The missiles I deploy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fight with my demons&lt;br /&gt;That live inside me&lt;br /&gt;I fight with myself&lt;br /&gt;Because I truly can not see&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hurt with every footfall&lt;br /&gt;Along this path I tread&lt;br /&gt;I hurt with every day that passes&lt;br /&gt;Until inside I feel dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Shining Knight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You hold me to you&lt;br /&gt;To chase away pain&lt;br /&gt;To protect from hurt&lt;br /&gt;Burning like acid rain&lt;br /&gt;You try to posses me&lt;br /&gt;To keep me from harm&lt;br /&gt;To sheild me from all&lt;br /&gt;In love's gentle charm&lt;br /&gt;But still it gets through&lt;br /&gt;To injure me again&lt;br /&gt;To inflict once more&lt;br /&gt;Dark, hear-aching pain&lt;br /&gt;Yet you still try&lt;br /&gt;To do your very best&lt;br /&gt;To let me have peace&lt;br /&gt;So my heart can rest&lt;br /&gt;In your arms I try&lt;br /&gt;To block it all out&lt;br /&gt;To ignore all pain&lt;br /&gt;and anger that's about&lt;br /&gt;I can find a way&lt;br /&gt;To truly be at rest&lt;br /&gt;To truly be at peace&lt;br /&gt;Because you are the best&lt;br /&gt;At helping me try&lt;br /&gt;To beat away pain&lt;br /&gt;To keep away anger&lt;br /&gt;And staying semi-saneI&lt;br /&gt;t's because you try hard&lt;br /&gt;To keep me from harm&lt;br /&gt;To keep me from fight&lt;br /&gt;That could break the charm&lt;br /&gt;That keeps me strong enough&lt;br /&gt;To let me live&lt;br /&gt;To let me love&lt;br /&gt;the one my heart I give&lt;br /&gt;Because he try so hard&lt;br /&gt;To do what is right&lt;br /&gt;To always protect me&lt;br /&gt;My beloved, shining Knight.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-201110181657815677?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/201110181657815677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=201110181657815677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/201110181657815677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/201110181657815677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-live-with-it-inside-me-hurt-pain-i.html' title=''/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TQLXoaPNZ1A/SPm0WSPp-5I/AAAAAAAAAAM/jtNB2STSAjI/S220/IMG_1604.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-2741786529036648952</id><published>2008-10-18T03:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T03:12:15.642-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Broken Soul&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The marks on my arms&lt;br /&gt;At night they bleed&lt;br /&gt;Showing the urge&lt;br /&gt;The craving, the need&lt;br /&gt;The tears on my face&lt;br /&gt;Track a downward path&lt;br /&gt;All which is hid&lt;br /&gt;Behind an akward laugh&lt;br /&gt;Deep down I hide&lt;br /&gt;All that I'm feeling&lt;br /&gt;My emotions and thoughts&lt;br /&gt;I'm constantly sealing&lt;br /&gt;But if you look hard&lt;br /&gt;You still can see&lt;br /&gt;The pain and hurt&lt;br /&gt;That fills me&lt;br /&gt;My eyes are a window&lt;br /&gt;That shows my soul&lt;br /&gt;Fragmented, in pieces&lt;br /&gt;So far from whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Marks that Bleed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dark line against glowing bronze&lt;br /&gt;Leaks streaming lines of crimson red&lt;br /&gt;Green and Gold eyes look upon&lt;br /&gt;The result of the life they've led&lt;br /&gt;Watches as life's precious nector&lt;br /&gt;Slowly makes it's downward way&lt;br /&gt;Trailing across the warm bronze&lt;br /&gt;Carresing the flesh where it lay&lt;br /&gt;The shinging light within the eyes&lt;br /&gt;Slowly fades into the dark&lt;br /&gt;While trailing streams of crimson dry&lt;br /&gt;Leaving only red-brown marks&lt;br /&gt;As glowing bronze loses its gleam&lt;br /&gt;And it's warmth fades aways&lt;br /&gt;Because the light that fills the being&lt;br /&gt;No longer can it stay.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-2741786529036648952?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/2741786529036648952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=2741786529036648952' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/2741786529036648952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/2741786529036648952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2008/10/broken-soul-marks-on-my-arms-at-night.html' title=''/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TQLXoaPNZ1A/SPm0WSPp-5I/AAAAAAAAAAM/jtNB2STSAjI/S220/IMG_1604.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-1905356180897772176</id><published>2008-03-21T04:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T04:10:56.625-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Oh how I wish you could see&lt;br /&gt;Exactly what you do to me&lt;br /&gt;Every time you give a smile&lt;br /&gt;Whenever you leave for awhile&lt;br /&gt;How you can tear me all apart&lt;br /&gt;How you control my entire heart&lt;br /&gt;Blocking out my logical brain&lt;br /&gt;Causing me to go insane&lt;br /&gt;You want to try to help me to heal&lt;br /&gt;To know exactly how I feel&lt;br /&gt;But I can't show you that yet&lt;br /&gt;While the blood is still wet&lt;br /&gt;From my heart that bleeds so free&lt;br /&gt;From long before you met me&lt;br /&gt;My trust is shattered into bits&lt;br /&gt;And every little attack hits&lt;br /&gt;Another nerve that is shattered&lt;br /&gt;Until my pieces are all scattered&lt;br /&gt;Into dust, into the dark&lt;br /&gt;Leaving not a single mark&lt;br /&gt;I need to you be much more&lt;br /&gt;Then you've ever been before&lt;br /&gt;But I don't think you're up to it&lt;br /&gt;To make the pieces all fit&lt;br /&gt;To bring the puzzle back to place&lt;br /&gt;To see my hidden, true face&lt;br /&gt;There's so much you don’t' know&lt;br /&gt;You have so much room to grow&lt;br /&gt;And you'll sprout far from me&lt;br /&gt;Because I know set you free&lt;br /&gt;To set your own pace&lt;br /&gt;In this hard, long race&lt;br /&gt;That we all must take in life&lt;br /&gt;That is filled with so much strife&lt;br /&gt;You will learn just what I mean&lt;br /&gt;When you have truly seen&lt;br /&gt;What I face in this mad world&lt;br /&gt;What before me has unfurled&lt;br /&gt;What has made me this way&lt;br /&gt;Hardly passing through the day&lt;br /&gt;Feeling inside so much pain&lt;br /&gt;Letting terror win yet again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-1905356180897772176?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/1905356180897772176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=1905356180897772176' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/1905356180897772176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/1905356180897772176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2008/03/oh-how-i-wish-you-could-see-exactly.html' title=''/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-5047022150318710981</id><published>2008-03-21T04:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T23:10:53.117-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Tears flow freely&lt;br /&gt;I hold the blade tight&lt;br /&gt;All is a muddled gray&lt;br /&gt;Combining black with white&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A shot of crimson&lt;br /&gt;Shines from the abyss&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of pain&lt;br /&gt;Of something amiss&lt;br /&gt;Why am I like this&lt;br /&gt;So torn up inside&lt;br /&gt;Why do I always&lt;br /&gt;Try so hard to hide&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't understand&lt;br /&gt;What is going on&lt;br /&gt;Or quite why all peace&lt;br /&gt;Has finally gone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deep the silver bites&lt;br /&gt;Bringing more tears&lt;br /&gt;Chasing back hurt&lt;br /&gt;Blocking out my fears&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But its doesnt last&lt;br /&gt;It all come back again&lt;br /&gt;All the resentment&lt;br /&gt;The craziness and pain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To eat me alive&lt;br /&gt;To tear me apart&lt;br /&gt;To cut me to shreds&lt;br /&gt;To rip out my heart&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-5047022150318710981?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/5047022150318710981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=5047022150318710981' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/5047022150318710981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/5047022150318710981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2008/03/tears-flow-freely-i-hold-blade-tight.html' title=''/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-5450765724673211833</id><published>2008-02-13T00:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T01:01:12.781-08:00</updated><title type='text'>&lt;3 For V-day....</title><content type='html'>I wrote this in a forum I frequent... its for someone special to me... I wrote it in the post message box/window, then posted it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With your strong arms&lt;br /&gt;You help me stand tall&lt;br /&gt;With your kiss&lt;br /&gt;You make me fall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With your gentle touch&lt;br /&gt;I can feel once again&lt;br /&gt;With your soft kindness&lt;br /&gt;My worries are slain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With you as my shelter&lt;br /&gt;I can weather this storm&lt;br /&gt;With you as my guide&lt;br /&gt;The cold becomes warm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With you in my life&lt;br /&gt;All else fades away&lt;br /&gt;With you by my side&lt;br /&gt;Its the happiest day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though I don't deserve&lt;br /&gt;You will love me still&lt;br /&gt;Every aspect of you&lt;br /&gt;Are my dreams fufilled&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without you around&lt;br /&gt;I would be quite lost&lt;br /&gt;Without your fire&lt;br /&gt;I would turn to frost&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without your direction&lt;br /&gt;I'd be turned around&lt;br /&gt;Without you caring&lt;br /&gt;I'd never be found&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With you in my life&lt;br /&gt;I feel so alive&lt;br /&gt;With you helping me&lt;br /&gt;Inside I can thrive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without you around&lt;br /&gt;My days would be gray&lt;br /&gt;So I dearly hope&lt;br /&gt;You never go away&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For through all the troubles&lt;br /&gt; And all that I do&lt;br /&gt;Please always remember&lt;br /&gt;That I truly love you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-5450765724673211833?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/5450765724673211833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=5450765724673211833' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/5450765724673211833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/5450765724673211833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2008/02/3-for-v-day.html' title='&lt;3 For V-day....'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-9146395640161221840</id><published>2008-01-24T02:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-24T02:54:26.911-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="text"&gt; Inside it hurts&lt;br /&gt;The marks show all&lt;br /&gt;Warm bronze marred&lt;br /&gt;Shiny drops that fall&lt;br /&gt;Pain filled eyes&lt;br /&gt;Hide from the day&lt;br /&gt;Seeking night&lt;br /&gt;And their own way&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dark waterfall covers&lt;br /&gt;Protecting from sight&lt;br /&gt;Keeping out shadows&lt;br /&gt;Shutting out fright&lt;br /&gt;The haunting windows&lt;br /&gt;Of green gold, and gray&lt;br /&gt;Holding deep secrets&lt;br /&gt;Shining in an odd way&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All are held there&lt;br /&gt;If one looked deep&lt;br /&gt;If into the chasm&lt;br /&gt;One wished to leap&lt;br /&gt;There they would see&lt;br /&gt;The truth to be found&lt;br /&gt;Of pain that is hidden&lt;br /&gt;Yet still all around&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-9146395640161221840?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/9146395640161221840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=9146395640161221840' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/9146395640161221840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/9146395640161221840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2008/01/inside-it-hurts-marks-show-all-warm.html' title=''/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-3309566891843935544</id><published>2007-09-17T02:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-17T02:23:08.757-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A poem I wrote in the dead of night</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Darkness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ink black hair falls across the face&lt;br /&gt;Twisted heart calls out from a place&lt;br /&gt;Of despair and desire, pleasure and pain&lt;br /&gt;Where horror and sadness take the reign&lt;br /&gt;In this dark hole she stands alone&lt;br /&gt;Joy and sorrow cutting to the bone&lt;br /&gt;Stripping away her sanity&lt;br /&gt;Never allowing her to just be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though other try, they do fail&lt;br /&gt;Before this darkness they quail&lt;br /&gt;For none is strong enough to care&lt;br /&gt;To reach her when she is there&lt;br /&gt;Not helping them out at all&lt;br /&gt;She allows herself to fall&lt;br /&gt;Cutting off all outside thought&lt;br /&gt;Inside is where the battle is fought&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blocking off all ways back out&lt;br /&gt;She still tries to scream and shout&lt;br /&gt;Though the reason she is there&lt;br /&gt;Is that she no longer cares&lt;br /&gt;About herself in any way&lt;br /&gt;Creature of night, fears the day&lt;br /&gt;When often she can seem to blend&lt;br /&gt;And often even seems to mend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But all that work is blown apart&lt;br /&gt;As darkness controls the heart&lt;br /&gt;Allowing only pain to rule&lt;br /&gt;Making her seem the fool&lt;br /&gt;For thinking she could best this curse&lt;br /&gt;By speaking rhyme, quoting verse&lt;br /&gt;But nothing touches the despair&lt;br /&gt;And once again she does not care&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day she will have to choose&lt;br /&gt;Which part of her is too lose&lt;br /&gt;And in this choice shall lie her fate&lt;br /&gt;Which path for her does wait&lt;br /&gt;Each choice leads to a different pain&lt;br /&gt;Each path leads to a different plain&lt;br /&gt;Where in herself she is almost whole&lt;br /&gt;Where she can at last, see her soul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One path leads down into the graves&lt;br /&gt;One path her own life she saves&lt;br /&gt;With one choice she leaves this earth&lt;br /&gt;While the other is a rebirth&lt;br /&gt;But which is the one that she claims&lt;br /&gt;As her body and soul she maims&lt;br /&gt;The one that leads her to rest in peace&lt;br /&gt;Or the one where she lives with her beast.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-3309566891843935544?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/3309566891843935544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=3309566891843935544' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/3309566891843935544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/3309566891843935544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2007/09/poem-i-wrote-in-dead-of-night.html' title='A poem I wrote in the dead of night'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-3890089707682571222</id><published>2007-08-11T19:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-11T19:40:40.745-07:00</updated><title type='text'>One I wrote in Class, but which describes me</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are You Happy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Happy.  Of course I am&lt;br /&gt;why wouldn’t I be&lt;br /&gt;what could possibly be wrong?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sad.  That’s what I really am&lt;br /&gt;the sadness is always there&lt;br /&gt;there’s something wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy.  Who isn’t happy&lt;br /&gt;what is there in this world&lt;br /&gt;that could make&lt;br /&gt;a person unhappy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sad.  So many are this way&lt;br /&gt;and I am one of those&lt;br /&gt;just look at the world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy.  Why would you think&lt;br /&gt;that I am ever not&lt;br /&gt;seriously, I’m never not happy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sad.  Look at my smile&lt;br /&gt;it’s so fake, look at&lt;br /&gt;eyes they show it all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why ever would you think&lt;br /&gt; that I am happy?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-3890089707682571222?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/3890089707682571222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=3890089707682571222' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/3890089707682571222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/3890089707682571222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2007/08/one-i-wrote-in-class-but-which.html' title='One I wrote in Class, but which describes me'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-4920731996406695324</id><published>2007-08-11T19:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-11T19:39:14.951-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Two Poems about the Darkness I feel</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Black Mask&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black mask, falling in waves&lt;br /&gt;Hides the windows to the soul&lt;br /&gt;Satin sheet like waterfall&lt;br /&gt;Yet wild, and out of control&lt;br /&gt;At times like dark wire&lt;br /&gt;Sharp whip, bringing pain&lt;br /&gt;Hides away the truth so that&lt;br /&gt;The glint is shown plain&lt;br /&gt;Framing and blocking dark spark&lt;br /&gt;Which shows what lies inside&lt;br /&gt;What almost is an empty shell&lt;br /&gt;That dark emotions like to ride&lt;br /&gt;Both passion and pain reside within&lt;br /&gt;The soulful gleam that it covers&lt;br /&gt;Both together fill and fight&lt;br /&gt;And are entwined like lovers&lt;br /&gt;All within the beast’s heart&lt;br /&gt;Who hides beneath the black curtain&lt;br /&gt;Which way the creature’s path is set&lt;br /&gt;Nothing is yet certain&lt;br /&gt;To perish with a soul so black&lt;br /&gt;May yet be her fate&lt;br /&gt;Though for a peaceful reckoning&lt;br /&gt;It may not be too late         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Pain’s Tears&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dark line against glowing bronze&lt;br /&gt;Leaks streaming lines of crimson red&lt;br /&gt;Green and gold eyes look upon&lt;br /&gt;The result of the life they’ve led&lt;br /&gt;Watches as life’s’ precious nectar&lt;br /&gt;Slowly makes its downward way&lt;br /&gt;Traveling across the warm bronze&lt;br /&gt;Caressing the flesh where it lay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shining light within the eyes&lt;br /&gt;Slowly fades into the dark&lt;br /&gt;While trailing streams of red dry&lt;br /&gt;Leaving only red-brown marks&lt;br /&gt;As glowing bronze loses its gleam&lt;br /&gt;And its warmth fades away&lt;br /&gt;Because the light that fills this being&lt;br /&gt;No longer can it stay&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-4920731996406695324?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/4920731996406695324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=4920731996406695324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/4920731996406695324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/4920731996406695324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2007/08/two-poems-about-darkness-i-feel.html' title='Two Poems about the Darkness I feel'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-117043987368909281</id><published>2007-02-02T10:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T10:11:13.710-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Moonlight Swim</title><content type='html'>Running harder then she had ever run before, Hatsumi was trying to escape the wave of anger and death that was following her and her companion, Lukas.  If they could only get to the lake ahead, then they could be free.&lt;br /&gt;            Glancing back over her shoulder, she noticed that they were farther behind then when the chase had started, but now there were more of them.  Shit.  This was not good, and getting steadily worse. If the mob caught them, then her life was over.  Or at least, her un-life, since she had dies years before.  That was the price for immortal life.&lt;br /&gt;            With long black hair, pale skin, slim build, and almond shaped eyes, Hatsumi looked like a young Asian girl who hadn’t got enough sun.  In reality, her skin was pale because she couldn’t be in the sun without dying, and she was no longer a girl, but a creature of the night.  A vampire, as was her companion, Lukas.  Lukas was the opposite of her, with his short blonde hair, and tall, husky build.&lt;br /&gt;            It was because of what they were that they were running for their lives right now.  While they had been feeding, and young man had walked in on them.  Before she could roll his mind so that he forgot what he saw, he had bolted to scream out the discovery to everyone still in the pub.  Word had spread quickly, to quick.  Though they tried to slip out, they were caught by a mass of torch, cross and pitchfork carrying town members.  It didn’t help matters that Hatsumi had killed the boy.  Or at least, killed him for now.&lt;br /&gt;A slight grin grew across her face at that, but didn’t stay there for long.  Hatsumi knew that if she was still alive right now, then her breath would be short.  Not to mention her heart would be trying to pound its way out of her chest.  But since she wasn’t, she didn’t have those problems.  However, she did have the problem of running out of energy when she didn’t get enough blood.  And since she had been interrupted while her and Lukas were drinking, she knew neither of them had drank even close to enough that night.&lt;br /&gt;Quickly checking over her shoulder once more, she realized that she was even more fucked then she originally thought.  Crosses and torches were bad enough; if they caught them then they could do some wicked damage, but what they had now they didn’t even need to be close to use.  Some one had found some crossbows.  Though there were only three that she saw before she whipped her head back around, that was still three to many.  Even one could do serious damage.&lt;br /&gt;Fuck, fuck, fuck.  She felt a bolt go right past her head, and saw it land several feet ahead.  Moving around it, she put on another burst of speed, knowing she just needed to reach the lake, if she did that she could live.  Great thing about not having to breathe, means you don’t drown either.  All she had to do was go and sit on the bottom of the lake until the next night, and she would be safe.&lt;br /&gt;As she ran, she could feel more bolts pass by her, and hear the ones that missed her hitting the ground behind her.  Then she felt a sharp pain in her shoulder, and stumbled.  God damn it.  One had hit her, talking a few seconds to reach back and rip it out, she continued on.  Lukas stopped as well, to make sure she was all right, and one hit him straight in the chest.  With a look of surprise, he burst into dust.&lt;br /&gt;Hatsumi didn’t even blink; she just took off once more.  Trying to keep herself from meeting the same fate, she focused on one thing.  Reaching the lake.  All else faded into the back round, a blur of noise, and green as she passed the trees and bushes that surround her goal.  Just a few yards more and she would be safe.&lt;br /&gt;Spotting a rock that gave an excellent angel to push off, she used all her strength to propel herself off it.  Arching her body in the air, she hit hands first, slicing through the water straight to the dark depths. With a few good kicks, she was far beneath the surface, and well out of range of any shots they might try to get in. &lt;br /&gt;Since she had plans to stay there all night long, she headed towards the bottom where she figured she could find something to weigh herself down with.  Shit.  This night had not gone as planned.  It didn’t bother her losing Lukas too much, she was only with him for a little while any way, but her other plans might be ruined now.  Hopefully they would spend the day trying to hunt her down, figuring she would leave the lake before dawn, and not stay there.  Other wise they might remember her “victim”.&lt;br /&gt;Finally reaching the bottom, she found some plant that worked well as a restraint for her body.  She was forced to sleep during the day, and floating to the top would not be a good thing.  After making sure she was securely fastened, she closed her eyes, and drifted off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several hours later, probably about 15, she awoke once more.  From the dark shades of the surrounding water, she could tell it was night once more.  Or at least dusk and dark enough for her to emerge from the water’s depths.  Quickly untying the plants from her wrists, she pushed off from the bottom, and floated to the surface.&lt;br /&gt;Breaking the water quietly, she swam swiftly to one side, on the look out for any member of the town who might be on lookout.  She slipped into the woods, and headed for a cave she has scouted out when she had first come to town.  Inside was a change of clothes, and the rest of her belongings.  Anything she left in town was sure to be burned, but as a precaution she had found this cave and stored most of her stuff there.  Being what she was, it was always smart to be prepared for mobs, and the like.&lt;br /&gt;Within a few minutes, she had located the cave, and found her stuff.  Changing quickly out of the dripping velvet dress she was wearing, she put on something that would be easier to maneuver in.  A close-fitting leather dress, that she had gotten it when she took a brief trip to the English Colonies.  It was what the natives there had worn, and she had found it comfortable, and useful.  The dark color of the clothe blended well with the shadows, and the flexibility of the material made it easy to move in.&lt;br /&gt;Wrapping a dark cloak about her, she started back towards town.  About now, the young man would be awake.  And she needed to be there for him.  Hopefully, his body hadn’t been dealt with.  If it hadn’t, then he should be prepared to meet her near the back of the town.&lt;br /&gt;It was this reason that she hadn’t cared about Lukas too much.  He had never really been a companion of hers, more just another of her kind going in the same direction, someone to talk to.  What she had really wanted was someone to stay with her for a lot longer.  Some one to who would care for her, and would want to share this dark life with her.  In this town she had found that person.&lt;br /&gt;A young man, age 20, named James lived in this town.  During her stay, she had become friends with him.  He was a handsome lad, with brown curls, and deep brown eyes. Currently his skin was tan, but after a few years as a vampire, it would fade to a pale tan.  She had been in town for about a week now, and had finally decided to bring him over.  It was he that she was going to meet now.&lt;br /&gt;Slowing as she neared the edge of town, she cam to the tree that they had agreed to meet under.  For a minute, her breath was caught in her throat, as she thought that he wasn’t there.  That they must have made sure his body couldn’t rise.  But then she noticed one of his curls peeking out from the other side of the tree.  She sighed with relief.&lt;br /&gt;At the slight sound of her sigh, he looked around the edge of the tree.  Seeing that it was her, he smiled, and she smiled back.  He quickly got to his feet, and began to approach her.  When he got near, he moved with the speed her kind possessed in small amounts, and swept her into an embrace.  As he held her, she felt his body tense with worry, then pull back.&lt;br /&gt;“Where did you get that wound?” Asked James, the concern heavy in his voice.&lt;br /&gt;Until that moment, she had forgotten the puncture mark that the cross bolt had left in her skin.  Though it had mostly healed, there was still a good-sized wound near her shoulder blade.&lt;br /&gt;Laughing, she told him it was nothing, just a scratch given to her by the mob last night.  With a grin he said the words that sent chills down her spine, brought a huge grin to my face, and cemented the idea that they would have a good time together.“Let’s destroy the town, then.”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-117043987368909281?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/117043987368909281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=117043987368909281' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/117043987368909281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/117043987368909281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2007/02/moonlight-swim.html' title='A Moonlight Swim'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-116172147682852010</id><published>2006-10-24T13:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-24T13:24:36.853-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Short Story</title><content type='html'>As she sat in her room, she wondered how she got here.  How she got to this place of despair, to this feeling of loss.  Well, she had lost everything.  All because of him.  He had come in, showing her a good time, acting her friend.  Then, he had turned her family against her.  She tried to tell the truth, tried to tell them what was happening, but they hadn’t believed her.  Now they to were dead, and he was coming for her.   She could almost sense him, coming up the stairs as quiet as a cat, never making a sound as he then headed for her door.  She could feel him as he moved closer and closer, but she knew there was nothing she could do, nowhere she could hides.  He would find her.&lt;br /&gt;            The handle of her door slowly turned, and then her door was pushed open.  Like a shadow, he entered.&lt;br /&gt;            “Hello again, my dear.” He breathed, hi accent as heavy as ever.  It had been this accent that attracted me to him in the first place.  “Now, why are you so afraid?  I am not going t o hurt you.  Well, not at first.  But after that brief moment of pain, you will find yourself in a wonderful new state of mind.”&lt;br /&gt;            As he had been saying this, she had realized what he was really going to do.  He wasn’t going to kill, as she had originally thought, no, he was going to make her like him.  A monster.&lt;br /&gt;            “Never,” Barely even getting this word out she was so chocked up with fear.  She became less afraid as she talked.  Knowing she was going one way or another, she decided it was best to go out with courage. “I will never become like you.  Never!”&lt;br /&gt;            Smiling, he watched as she stood up and glared defiantly at him.  Suddenly, he was at her side, pulling her to him, and latching his long canines to her throat.  Struggling, she tried to pull away, to fight him, but a kind of ecstasy came over her in waves.  Slowly, it overcame, and pacified her.  It was if he had drugged her.  Slowly, she faded into a black pit of unknowing.&lt;br /&gt;            What seemed like hours, but was naught but a few minutes, later, she felt a few warm drops on her lips.  She licked her lips to see what it was, tasted something coppery, then swallowed.  Her body was immediately, and suddenly, overwrought with spasms of pain.  This disappeared as quickly as it came, and she was once again thrown into the black pit of nothingness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            When she woke, she felt a fierce hunger, more a longing then anything else.  It filled her with a consuming Desire for the taste she had had a bit ago.  It blacked out all other thoughts.  She smelled a warm body near her, and made her way towards it, wanting to sate this hunger.  She drank.  Slowly, thought returned, as the fog in her mind cleared.  Also, she realized something.  She felt powerful.  All her life she had been weak, but now she was almost more powerful then the creature the sat in her corner.  Turning to him, she smiled and stood up.  Unchastely, he embraced her, before they both turned to the night, leaving the body of her mother behind.  She didn’t even glance back at it in her room, as she left to start her new unlife.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-116172147682852010?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/116172147682852010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=116172147682852010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/116172147682852010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/116172147682852010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2006/10/short-story.html' title='Short Story'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-115416206715583544</id><published>2006-07-29T01:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T01:34:27.170-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Kiss of Darkness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sharp pain&lt;br /&gt;Then utter bliss&lt;br /&gt;As I am given&lt;br /&gt;The eternal kiss&lt;br /&gt;Blood flows from&lt;br /&gt;My veins to you&lt;br /&gt;I start to get weaker&lt;br /&gt;You are almost through&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beginning to go limp&lt;br /&gt;I know it is time&lt;br /&gt;You draw back&lt;br /&gt;And cut a line&lt;br /&gt;The liquid wells&lt;br /&gt;Across your chest&lt;br /&gt;I begin to drink&lt;br /&gt;From your breast&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My breath is caught&lt;br /&gt;Within my throat&lt;br /&gt;Quick pleasure rush&lt;br /&gt;Then in blackness I float&lt;br /&gt;Slowly I come&lt;br /&gt;To myself once more&lt;br /&gt;Without thought I arise&lt;br /&gt;Different then before&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No longer is needed&lt;br /&gt;Food, breath or heat&lt;br /&gt;All that is needed is&lt;br /&gt;Blood to be complete&lt;br /&gt;Going out into the night&lt;br /&gt;Stalking hand in hand&lt;br /&gt;To sup on the fleshOf the people of the land.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-115416206715583544?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/115416206715583544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=115416206715583544' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/115416206715583544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/115416206715583544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2006/07/kiss-of-darkness-sharp-pain-then-utter.html' title=''/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-115114743211902162</id><published>2006-06-24T03:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-24T04:10:32.130-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Something new</title><content type='html'>For once, this will actually be a love poem O_O  I scare myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your Embrace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorrow fills me everyday&lt;br /&gt;Except when I am around you&lt;br /&gt;Whenever I am in your arms&lt;br /&gt;I feel a love so true&lt;br /&gt;Raidiating from us both&lt;br /&gt;Creating a warm cover&lt;br /&gt;Circling all around us&lt;br /&gt;A single pair of lovers&lt;br /&gt;Keeping us safe from harm&lt;br /&gt;That other try cause&lt;br /&gt;Drowing out in our hearts&lt;br /&gt;All the little flaws&lt;br /&gt;This is how you make me feel&lt;br /&gt;Whenever you are around&lt;br /&gt;Like my self is lifted up&lt;br /&gt;No longer on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Forever&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I can't promise you forever&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;But I'll give you what I can&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Both of us entwined&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Walking together hand in hand&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;As long as I am with you&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;My heart will be yours&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;And maybe even after&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;It will be even more&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stay with me for now&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Love me while you can&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Walk with me together&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Always hand in hand&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-115114743211902162?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/115114743211902162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=115114743211902162' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/115114743211902162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/115114743211902162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2006/06/something-new.html' title='Something new'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-114383832083349044</id><published>2006-03-31T12:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-31T12:52:00.843-08:00</updated><title type='text'>More pain.  Maybe I should rename this that?</title><content type='html'>More pain filled poetry.  Yay!  *snort*  Yeah, so.  Finally posting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Not There&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's the point&lt;br /&gt;Of going on&lt;br /&gt;Will anyone notice&lt;br /&gt;If I'm gone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I dissapear&lt;br /&gt;From all sight&lt;br /&gt;If I escape&lt;br /&gt;From Life's fight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just leave behind&lt;br /&gt;all pain, all woe&lt;br /&gt;Just plain up&lt;br /&gt;Leave and go&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would they see&lt;br /&gt;Would they care&lt;br /&gt;Would they notice&lt;br /&gt;If I'm not there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one has no name... once agian.  Thinking of maybe Backstabbing Best Freind?? I was also suggested to use the name ' Best Freind?'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do you torment me&lt;br /&gt;And try to take him away&lt;br /&gt;Can't you see I need him&lt;br /&gt;How seeing him makes my day?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stop being so selfish&lt;br /&gt;He's your freind as well&lt;br /&gt;Can't you be happy with that&lt;br /&gt;Stop putting me through hell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know you have issues&lt;br /&gt;Well, I have them too&lt;br /&gt;Can't you understand that&lt;br /&gt;And as a friend be true?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-114383832083349044?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/114383832083349044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=114383832083349044' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/114383832083349044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/114383832083349044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2006/03/more-pain-maybe-i-should-rename-this.html' title='More pain.  Maybe I should rename this that?'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-114313615057625576</id><published>2006-03-23T09:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-23T09:49:10.590-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Update</title><content type='html'>Okay.  Wow.  I have not posted on here in a LONG time.  Damn.  I should post more.  So.  This isn't a post of more poetry, for the few that I see may have been reading it ^_^  Which I love.  But, there will be one soon.  Hopefully.  If my computer didn't lose it all T-T&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-114313615057625576?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/114313615057625576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=114313615057625576' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/114313615057625576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/114313615057625576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2006/03/update.html' title='Update'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-112443519934982861</id><published>2005-08-19T00:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-19T00:06:39.350-07:00</updated><title type='text'>something new!  LOVE!</title><content type='html'>Like OMG.  Its not all dark and painful.  Oh wait, yes it is XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do I feel&lt;br /&gt;The way that I do&lt;br /&gt;Why out of all&lt;br /&gt;Did it have to be you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It could have been&lt;br /&gt;Someone not wrong&lt;br /&gt;Instead of someone&lt;br /&gt;Who is way too young&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But yet I do feel&lt;br /&gt;So utterly right&lt;br /&gt;As if with you, I&lt;br /&gt;Could cease to fight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something calls me&lt;br /&gt;Deep within&lt;br /&gt;Despite my mind&lt;br /&gt;My heart may win&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But until that day&lt;br /&gt;I wont speak to you&lt;br /&gt;Of how I feel&lt;br /&gt;So strong and true&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-112443519934982861?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/112443519934982861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=112443519934982861' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/112443519934982861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/112443519934982861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2005/08/something-new-love.html' title='something new!  LOVE!'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-112443497030546591</id><published>2005-08-18T23:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-19T00:02:50.310-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More Pain.  How fun!</title><content type='html'>More poetry written about the pain i feel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am Unseen&lt;br /&gt;By those around&lt;br /&gt;Insignificant being&lt;br /&gt;Not truly known&lt;br /&gt;Around me swirls&lt;br /&gt;Life’s bold patterns&lt;br /&gt;Lines and whorls&lt;br /&gt;Together twist&lt;br /&gt;People fast paced&lt;br /&gt;Striding past&lt;br /&gt;Once I raced&lt;br /&gt;But not any more&lt;br /&gt;Once I showed&lt;br /&gt;That I was someone&lt;br /&gt;Once I flowed&lt;br /&gt;With them all&lt;br /&gt;Dropping out&lt;br /&gt;I wasn’t seen&lt;br /&gt;And nothing about&lt;br /&gt;Me is known&lt;br /&gt;In corner is sit&lt;br /&gt;Wishing, watching&lt;br /&gt;To be every bit&lt;br /&gt;Someone who’s known&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Pain flows through me&lt;br /&gt;I let out a gasp&lt;br /&gt;Falling to the floor&lt;br /&gt;I try to grasp&lt;br /&gt;How this anger&lt;br /&gt;Could fill me so&lt;br /&gt;How this pain&lt;br /&gt;Came from this roe&lt;br /&gt;But you still yet&lt;br /&gt;Have pain for me&lt;br /&gt;And until you let go&lt;br /&gt;I wont truly be free.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-112443497030546591?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/112443497030546591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=112443497030546591' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/112443497030546591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/112443497030546591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2005/08/more-pain-how-fun.html' title='More Pain.  How fun!'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-111769077189431404</id><published>2005-06-01T22:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-06-01T22:41:51.986-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stranded on a island....</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;If Stranded on a Lush Tropical Island for a month, what would happen to…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Zandra Troiani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Austin: Heading off into the forest by himself, Austin would need human contact every once in awhile. About once a week, he would come to visit the camp set up by us girls and Reed. During the rest of the time, Austin would be at his own camp, or out scavenging for fruit. His camp would be set up on the borderline between the beach and the forest, and would be near water. At first his camp would be made up only of a bed of branches, but later he would upgrade to a hut type structure.&lt;br /&gt;About the first few hours, Austin would strip down to his boxers only. He would remove all of his clothes, but keep them nearby in a pile. This pile would be in a place where the shoes would remain white.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ammon: Ammon would head off into the forest, needing peace and solitude. We would then not see him till much later. Finally, when a rescue crew did arrive, we would find him, fully clothed, next a camp fire and happily munching on part of his fruit stock that he collected every few days. The place he would be at would be neat, and he would have found a way to turn coconut shells into water holders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chevy: Sticking with the main group, Chevy would keep the fire going, and occasionally roasting the fruit brought in. Together, the whole group of girls would have made themselves huts out of various parts of the trees surrounding them. Mostly, the group would be in a position of comfort, not needing to do much to survive, so Chevy would think of questions and word games to play. Being bored, we would all play and learn a lot about each other. Also, several times, Chevy would go off to explore, usually with either me or Reed.&lt;br /&gt;Since the island would be hot, Chevy would be like me, in shorts and a bra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marisa: Also sticking with the main group, Marisa would be on watch duty. She would sit with at camp with Chevy, while the rest were off on their various jobs, and she would watch for an incoming ship or plane and attempt to get their attention. She would also be helping Chevy with thinking of word games and question type things to do. The type of thing like, the what if game.&lt;br /&gt;Being a more modest seeming girl, Marisa would be wearing a shirt, tied up at just above chest level, and a pair of shorts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Megan: Megan would also stick with the main group, and would be assigned the duty of getting water. Megan would be the one who we would learn the least about, as she is the quietest and would open up less. Megan would participate often in the word games, but not always. She would also go off on her own occasionally, and explore the wilderness around us. Like Marisa, she would be wearing a shirt and shorts, but her shirt wouldn’t be tied up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reed: At first Reed would try to go off by himself, but by the third day, he would rejoin the main group. The reason for this would be his need to have someone to talk to, and he needs human company. His job would then be Fire wood collector. Reed would always actively participate in the games, and would explore the Island, though only with Chevy.&lt;br /&gt;Reed would be wearing shorts only, and would lose his other clothes somewhere in the woods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me: Being the type that gets things done, and the type that would enjoy a time like this, if it was temporary, I would take control and give everyone an assignment. Though, it would all be logical stuff so that no one would argue. My job would be to find fruit for food. During my scavenging, I would explore the entire island. I would also explore the island more in my spare time. Needing to talk a lot, I would actively participate in all group talks and games, and would probably start a lot of them when I was bored. Getting most of my solace from my fruit picking, I would not need any other time away from the rest of the group, and would try to make friends with all of them.&lt;br /&gt;Being not as modest as some, and highly unable to stand large amounts of heat, I would where he same type of dress as Chevy. Basically, a bra and shorts.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-111769077189431404?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/111769077189431404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=111769077189431404' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/111769077189431404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/111769077189431404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2005/06/stranded-on-island.html' title='Stranded on a island....'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-110964493253405622</id><published>2005-02-28T18:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-02-28T18:42:12.536-08:00</updated><title type='text'>This is about my ex.</title><content type='html'>I hate you, but I love you&lt;br /&gt;You disgust me, yet I want you&lt;br /&gt;Should I give you pain, or give you pleasure&lt;br /&gt;I'm not sure, first no, then yes&lt;br /&gt;First I don't, then I do,&lt;br /&gt;'m confused&lt;br /&gt;You hurt me, should I hurt you&lt;br /&gt;Should I let it go, or hold on&lt;br /&gt;And to what, to anger, to hate&lt;br /&gt;Or to love and to pain&lt;br /&gt;Which should I trully feel&lt;br /&gt;It's unclear&lt;br /&gt;I want to cry, but I stand tall&lt;br /&gt;Holding it in, holding it all&lt;br /&gt;Saying I feel, what I do, yet don't&lt;br /&gt;I hate myself, no I hate you&lt;br /&gt;I hate everything, then nothing at all&lt;br /&gt;Help me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-110964493253405622?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/110964493253405622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=110964493253405622' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/110964493253405622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/110964493253405622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2005/02/this-is-about-my-ex.html' title='This is about my ex.'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-110004222833880938</id><published>2004-11-09T15:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-09T15:17:08.336-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fear that I feel</title><content type='html'>Life’s Sweet Fears&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sadness flows through me&lt;br /&gt;A wish to weep anew&lt;br /&gt;A corrupt soul beneath me&lt;br /&gt;I see no way through&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confidence, turned upside down&lt;br /&gt;The fear I breed within&lt;br /&gt;Takes control as anger&lt;br /&gt;Oh, I can not win&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through out my dark journey&lt;br /&gt;I pass, invisible to all&lt;br /&gt;I need so much more&lt;br /&gt;To stop me from my fall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish that I could feel&lt;br /&gt;A joy unchecked inside&lt;br /&gt;Instead of all this fear&lt;br /&gt;That I can barely hide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-110004222833880938?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/110004222833880938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=110004222833880938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/110004222833880938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/110004222833880938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/11/fear-that-i-feel.html' title='Fear that I feel'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-109632151193756267</id><published>2004-09-27T14:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-27T14:45:11.936-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Um...somthing new.</title><content type='html'>Um, I wrote this last night when I was felling like shit.  I always seem to write better when I am felling like shit, but oh well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're like a best friend&lt;br /&gt;So sweet and true&lt;br /&gt;Without you in my life&lt;br /&gt;I wouldn't know what to do&lt;br /&gt;When I feel blue or down&lt;br /&gt;I just want to talk to you&lt;br /&gt;To tell you all my woes&lt;br /&gt;my dreams, and hopes, anything new&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You alone ignite in me&lt;br /&gt;A deep untamed fire&lt;br /&gt;A wanting to be near you&lt;br /&gt;In joy, in pain, in dark desire&lt;br /&gt;I wish to hold you near&lt;br /&gt;All the day, all the night&lt;br /&gt;To be with you right now&lt;br /&gt;Just feels so damn right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-109632151193756267?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/109632151193756267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=109632151193756267' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/109632151193756267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/109632151193756267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/09/umsomthing-new.html' title='Um...somthing new.'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-109606298570744052</id><published>2004-09-24T14:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-24T14:56:25.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Um...cats</title><content type='html'>Eyes of green&lt;br /&gt;Gold or blue&lt;br /&gt;Nightly glowing&lt;br /&gt;In bright hues&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pointed ears&lt;br /&gt;And furry tail&lt;br /&gt;Able to walk&lt;br /&gt;On roof and rail&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Softly padding&lt;br /&gt;In the night&lt;br /&gt;Curled up sleeping&lt;br /&gt;In sunlight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-109606298570744052?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/109606298570744052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=109606298570744052' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/109606298570744052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/109606298570744052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/09/umcats.html' title='Um...cats'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-109348278431509640</id><published>2004-08-25T18:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-28T16:48:44.636-07:00</updated><title type='text'>dij</title><content type='html'>I feel so bad&lt;br /&gt;I wish to tell&lt;br /&gt;how I feel&lt;br /&gt;for him so well&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;how despite&lt;br /&gt;Many tellings&lt;br /&gt;of how he can&lt;br /&gt;hurt my feelings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't help&lt;br /&gt;myself at all&lt;br /&gt;I can't resist&lt;br /&gt;i want ot fall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to wrap&lt;br /&gt;myself in him&lt;br /&gt;I want to die&lt;br /&gt;I can not win.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-109348278431509640?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/109348278431509640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=109348278431509640' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/109348278431509640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/109348278431509640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/08/dij.html' title='dij'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-109330892441730900</id><published>2004-08-23T17:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-23T17:55:24.416-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Just...somthing</title><content type='html'>I veiw the world&lt;br /&gt;Through looking glass&lt;br /&gt;I see it as though&lt;br /&gt;It backwards, pass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see the world&lt;br /&gt;As a young kid&lt;br /&gt;beleiving in the good&lt;br /&gt;Of where I live&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watch the world&lt;br /&gt;Be filled with bad&lt;br /&gt;That devours all&lt;br /&gt;There is to have&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But still I see&lt;br /&gt;A chance of good&lt;br /&gt;If only all on this earth&lt;br /&gt;did as they should.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-109330892441730900?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/109330892441730900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=109330892441730900' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/109330892441730900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/109330892441730900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/08/justsomthing.html' title='Just...somthing'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-108750157265533377</id><published>2004-06-17T12:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-17T12:46:12.656-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Just somthing</title><content type='html'>sadness pours&lt;br /&gt;from within&lt;br /&gt;looking for&lt;br /&gt;a true friend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wanting peace&lt;br /&gt;Deep inside&lt;br /&gt;Wanting to rlese&lt;br /&gt;what i hide&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Changing is&lt;br /&gt;what I want&lt;br /&gt;To show what&lt;br /&gt;I think I can't.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-108750157265533377?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/108750157265533377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=108750157265533377' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108750157265533377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108750157265533377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/06/just-somthing.html' title='Just somthing'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-108707403737541694</id><published>2004-06-12T13:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-12T14:00:37.376-07:00</updated><title type='text'>a spontanious out pour</title><content type='html'>I got bored yesterday, and wrote this...In viking runes.   As I said i got bored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gentle Touch&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life without&lt;br /&gt;Sweet caress&lt;br /&gt;Starts within&lt;br /&gt;Deep unrest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Touching of&lt;br /&gt;Gentle skin&lt;br /&gt;Beating heart&lt;br /&gt;popunds within.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-108707403737541694?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/108707403737541694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=108707403737541694' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108707403737541694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108707403737541694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/06/spontanious-out-pour.html' title='a spontanious out pour'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-108689820858342517</id><published>2004-06-10T13:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-10T13:10:08.583-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Poems of life</title><content type='html'>The rush of life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sing to me&lt;br /&gt;My siren song&lt;br /&gt;Of things that&lt;br /&gt;Don’t belong&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sing of fear&lt;br /&gt;Of hate, of pain&lt;br /&gt;Longing for&lt;br /&gt;That rush again&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to feel&lt;br /&gt;All differently&lt;br /&gt; Love and joy&lt;br /&gt;And things to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feeling inside&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Songs of sorrow&lt;br /&gt;Songs of hate&lt;br /&gt;Are not found&lt;br /&gt;On our first date&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Slow and dreamy&lt;br /&gt;Staring down&lt;br /&gt;Sheepishly I &lt;br /&gt;Watch the ground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blush of pink&lt;br /&gt;Of rosy red&lt;br /&gt;I feel alive&lt;br /&gt;No longer dead&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You bring with you&lt;br /&gt;A peaceful joy&lt;br /&gt;To be experienced&lt;br /&gt;By each girl and boy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-108689820858342517?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/108689820858342517/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=108689820858342517' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108689820858342517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108689820858342517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/06/poems-of-life.html' title='Poems of life'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-108689807508596636</id><published>2004-06-10T13:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-10T13:07:55.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Writing of A sadder style</title><content type='html'>Peace for the sorrow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing but&lt;br /&gt;A single sound&lt;br /&gt;As the raindrop &lt;br /&gt;Hits the ground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The melody&lt;br /&gt;That it plays&lt;br /&gt;Is to be saved&lt;br /&gt;For later days&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For days of peace&lt;br /&gt;And days of sad&lt;br /&gt;Of sorrow song&lt;br /&gt;That is to be had&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catch it in glass&lt;br /&gt;Of silver fine&lt;br /&gt;Catch one in yours&lt;br /&gt;And one in mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-108689807508596636?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/108689807508596636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=108689807508596636' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108689807508596636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108689807508596636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/06/writing-of-sadder-style.html' title='Writing of A sadder style'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-108682777546311495</id><published>2004-06-09T17:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-06T13:46:03.143-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A short, and hopefully creepy, story.</title><content type='html'>As she sat at the computer, she blanked. How could she do this? How could she write something like this, when she had barely written anything before? Huff, she let out a tremendous sigh, ok, stop thinking, that's what ya got to do, she thought to her self. So she did. Turning on her headphones she let it low, the thoughts, the emotions, they were all there, waiting for her to release them. So she did. For hours she sat there, not thinking of anything but the flow, the train of images and feeling that came to her and traversed out her fingers to be typed on the page. She barely even acknowledged the fact that her parents had called her in for dinner. She just typed. This is what she had dreamed of doing the first time she read the flyer, this felt right to her. The sound of the keys brought to her the sound of sweet music. The light of the computer brought her into her role, she immersed her self in it. Reveling in her own thoughts, but yet, they weren’t quite her own, they seemed to have a spirit of their own. But she ignored that fact, instead she just typed. Hour’s later sleep brought her back; she had to rest, had to restore herself to type more beautiful thoughts and feelings. She went to bed. All night, thoughts infiltrated her dreams, things she did not know, did not recognize, things that were stranger than the stories of fantasy told when she was little. They scared her. But she could not escape them, they followed her, always the same distance behind her, she could never out run them, never hide from them, they would always be there, always trying to get her. She should surrender to them; she would always lose any ways. A part of her still fought them, but it would lose. They could wait forever, they weren’t going anywhere, they could be patient until she submitted. Besides, the chase was fun for them. The next morning she remembered nothing of her dreams, all she knew was the urge to type, she must continue, must reach the end of it, so that she could begin again. She headed to the computer, she brought up what should have been her work, but it was gone, all of her thoughts and emotions had been deleted. She must start again, this thought didn't bother her as much as it should have, typing was something that she now enjoyed, and typing was all she enjoyed. Typing would be her life! Again the day went as before, her doing nothing but typing, noticing nothing but typing. Typing was becoming her, her was becoming nothing. Both her parents tried to arouse her from the daze she was in, but neither could. Not even the arrival of her boyfriend brought any life too her, she just typed. Nothing could distract her; she must finish this today, because it wouldn't be there tomorrow. For days this went on, she did nothing but type, trying to finish her work before the end of the day, and sleep caught up on her, but she never did. Her parents and friends became more and more worried about her, nothing they did ever brought her out of her stupor, it was almost like was on something, except she never ate or drank anything. She had been wearing the same clothes since she began, she never left to even sleep anymore, she just fell asleep at her chair, waking up early and typing till she passed out. Everyday the same She was almost finished, she had one page to go, and then she e would be free, free from the things that tormented her, that forced her to finish, to complete her work, so that they may take her over once and for all. That was fine with her, she knew she wouldn't really be there when they got to her she would be else where, a place with out them, she would be free, free from all pain. She just had to finish this page and print it, then she could go, then she could leave. At last, she was done, she hit print, as soon as she did, and she collapsed. Both parents ran to her, to see what was wrong, to see why she had just collapsed from her chair. They had both been waiting beside her for days now, waiting for her to come back from where ever she was, to return to them from her inner world. When they got to her, they knew she would never be coming back, ever. She had collapsed because she had died. Her mother looked over at the printer when it started up, to see what she had printed before she perished. What she saw there horrified her. It was line after line of what looked to be a chant in some very strange language, one with out any vowels, or any other form or resemblance to the English language, or any other on this earth. There were pages of it to, at least a hundred, the printer was complaining about being out of paper, but this was a special one, designed for a mass print, how could it be out? What was it that had captured her daughter so much that she had been unable to do anything else but type it up for days? This was something she didn't think she would ever find out Far from the place where she had collapsed, in an abandon house, a strange form arose, and smiled. Finally, he was free, free from that stupid box that had held him for years, free to destroy the world and all that had been safe. They put him in the box, and now they would pay. Now that the incantation had been rewritten, now he could conquer all, and make them grovel at his feet for mercy... and then he would kill them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-108682777546311495?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/108682777546311495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=108682777546311495' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108682777546311495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108682777546311495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/06/short-and-hopefully-creepy-story.html' title='A short, and hopefully creepy, story.'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-108680082513733110</id><published>2004-06-09T10:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-09T10:07:05.136-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dark Poetry</title><content type='html'>Things that lurk&lt;br /&gt;In shadows dark&lt;br /&gt;That come and &lt;br /&gt;Creep in the park&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The monster that&lt;br /&gt;Hides beneath&lt;br /&gt;The bed, the night,&lt;br /&gt;The doorway wreath&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The come for you&lt;br /&gt;On night so gray&lt;br /&gt;Looking for&lt;br /&gt;The correct Way&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To take you down&lt;br /&gt;To feed themselves&lt;br /&gt;To take the your life&lt;br /&gt;For their shelves&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beware the shadow&lt;br /&gt;Beneath the floor&lt;br /&gt;They come for you&lt;br /&gt;They’re at your door.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-108680082513733110?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/108680082513733110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=108680082513733110' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108680082513733110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108680082513733110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/06/dark-poetry.html' title='Dark Poetry'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-108671944561764291</id><published>2004-06-08T11:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-08T11:30:45.616-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Music Poem</title><content type='html'>A flowing note&lt;br /&gt;A ringing sound&lt;br /&gt;A smooth rhythm&lt;br /&gt;I dance along&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flows like water&lt;br /&gt;Into my soul&lt;br /&gt;Swirling around me&lt;br /&gt;A beat, a toll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cutting a design&lt;br /&gt;a rough feeling&lt;br /&gt;Causing a stir&lt;br /&gt;Of my heart sealing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dancing to &lt;br /&gt;A pattern unknown&lt;br /&gt;All self-loathing&lt;br /&gt;Aside is thrown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curing me&lt;br /&gt;Of all that ails&lt;br /&gt;Moving like this&lt;br /&gt;My spirit sails.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-108671944561764291?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/108671944561764291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=108671944561764291' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108671944561764291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108671944561764291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/06/music-poem.html' title='Music Poem'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7236906.post-108663635740139086</id><published>2004-06-07T12:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-11T12:24:37.343-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The second one and the third</title><content type='html'>Night time shadows                          &lt;br /&gt;Creep out light&lt;br /&gt;Darkness stirs                               &lt;br /&gt;Under stars bright                           &lt;br /&gt;                                             &lt;br /&gt;Feelings creep                               &lt;br /&gt;Through shadows dark&lt;br /&gt;Scaling up                                   &lt;br /&gt;Rouhg tree bark                              &lt;br /&gt;                                             &lt;br /&gt;Bright moon shines                           &lt;br /&gt;Lights up some                             &lt;br /&gt;Deep star lite                               &lt;br /&gt;Shines on none                               &lt;br /&gt;                                             &lt;br /&gt;Twilghit coming                              &lt;br /&gt;Dusk is here&lt;br /&gt;Run throughs shadows                         &lt;br /&gt;Not to fear                                  &lt;br /&gt;                                             &lt;br /&gt;Nights music                                 &lt;br /&gt;Playing strong&lt;br /&gt;Struming softly&lt;br /&gt;Drifts along&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cool breeze blows&lt;br /&gt;Streaming on&lt;br /&gt;Till night's over&lt;br /&gt;Oh, here comes dawn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demons of the night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eyes of green&lt;br /&gt;Gold or Blue&lt;br /&gt;Nightly Glowing&lt;br /&gt;In bright hues&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pointed ears&lt;br /&gt;And furry tail&lt;br /&gt;Able to walk&lt;br /&gt;On roof or rail&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Softly padding&lt;br /&gt;In the night&lt;br /&gt;Curled up sleeping&lt;br /&gt;In sunlight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Land on feet&lt;br /&gt;From any height&lt;br /&gt;In the dark&lt;br /&gt;Has perfect sight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first one I wrote while outside, the second I wrote to discribe somthing, I like doing that, describing somthing so that others know what it is, with out saying what it is.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7236906-108663635740139086?l=writingnthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/feeds/108663635740139086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7236906&amp;postID=108663635740139086' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108663635740139086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7236906/posts/default/108663635740139086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingnthings.blogspot.com/2004/06/second-one-and-third.html' title='The second one and the third'/><author><name>Shadow Dancer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' 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