You can also find me at starslibrary . net (though I am no longer updating there, though I do have @ least 2 other stories there that are not posted on the other sites.)

or archiveofourown under the pen-name canislupusfamiliaris.

For all those who voted for Nightmare in Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Spook Fest 2014, THANK YOU.

For all those who voted for For Shits and Giggles & His Baby-Doll in Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Superhero Fest 2015, THANK YOU.

For all those who voted for The Night of the Full Moon and The Summons in Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Spook Fest 2015, THANK YOU.

For all those who read/voted for/reviewed Second Chances in Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Superhero Fest 2016, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU

Feel free to PM me and let me know what you thought of them.

For all those who have taken the time to read and/or review, favorite, or follow any and/or all my stories, THANK YOU, it means a lot to me.

Awards:

Nightmare, 2nd place in Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Spook Fest 2014

His Baby-Doll, 2nd place in Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Superhero Fest 2015 & TWCS Library Featured Story Week of 3 May 2015

The Night of the Full Moon, TWCS Library Featured Story Week of 17-23 January 2016

Second Chances, 2nd place in Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Superhero Fest 2016 & TWCS Library Featured Story Week of 7 November 2016 (Veterans Day, Honoring all who served).

Quotes:

"Never sit staring at a blank page or screen.

If you find yourself stuck,

write.

Write about the scene you're trying to write.

Writing about is easier than writing,

and chances are,

it will give you your way in.

You could try listing ten things that might happen next,

or do a timed freewrite-- fast, non-precious forward momentum;

you don't even have to read it afterward,

but it might give you ideas.

Try anything and everything.

Never fall still,

and don't be lazy."

Laini Taylor

"My rule of thumb is that a short story of 3,000words should be rewritten down to 2,500.

It's not always true,

but mostly it is.

You need to take out the stuff that's just sitting there and doing nothing.

Always ask the student writer,

"What do you want to say?"

Every sentence that answers that question

is part of the essay or story.

Every sentence that does not

needs to go."

Stephen King

"Well-written and detailed--

this is an excellent introduction to the art of writing

in the romantic and erotic genre."

unknown

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story.

You never quite know where they'll take you."

Beatrix Potter

"The idea came to me complete from start to finish –

a most unusual occurrence,

as any writer will tell you,

for ordinarily a story has to be struggled with,

changed around and mixed up."

Philip Van Doren Stern

“A short story is a love affair,

a novel is a marriage.

A short story is a photograph;

a novel is a film."

Lorrie Moore

"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story.

You never quite know where they'll take you."

Beatrix Potter

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Thomas Mann

"We improve ourselves by victory over our self.

There must be contests,

and you must win."

Edward Gibbon

"I write to discover what I know."

Flannery O'Connor

"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."

Richard Wright

"There is something in me maybe someday to be written;

now it is folded,

and folded,

and folded,

like a note in school."

Sharon Olds

"We write to taste life twice,

in the moment and in retrospect."

Anais Nin

"Imagination is like a muscle.

I found out that the more I wrote,

the bigger it got."

Philip Jose Farmer

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them."

Margaret Mitchell

"Darkness is drawn to light,

but light does not know it;

light must absorb the darkness

and therefore

meets its own extinguishment."

Edna O 'Brien

"You shall know the truth

and

the truth shall make you mad."

Aldous Huxley

"Reading is escape,

and the opposite of escape;

it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up,

and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real"

Nora Ephron

"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos…

to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us

like a bewildering and stupendous dream."

John Cheever

"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life

and never seen."

John Steinbeck

"Love won't be tampered with,

love won't go away.

Push it to one side and it creeps to the other."

Louise Erdrich

"[Writing is] like driving a car at night:

you never see further than your headlights,

but you can make the whole trip that way."

E.L. Doctorow

"Written words can also sing."

Ngugi wa Thinong'o