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Awaken Your Mind: An article I wrote about how to make a difference in the world. This piece was selected for publication in the April 4, 2003 issue of CSS's newspaper, "The CABLE."
Window One: A brief peek into my everyday mind. This piece was selected for publication in the 2003 volume of CSS's literary journal, "Out of Words."
These Things Happen: 2006. Complete. An original piece of short fiction, written for a monthly challenge community.
Fanfiction: One-Shots
Full Circle: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon story. Growth is harder for some than for others. Alone of all the Sailor Soldiers, Venus views her power as more of a burden than a blessing. Will she ever experience the harmony her friends enjoy?
Night Star Shining: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon story. Crystal Tokyo - a utopia, but only for some. With the Sailor Senshi focused solely on protecting the city's elite, a pair of mysterious heroes appears with its own definition of love and justice.
No Place: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon story. Luna and Artemis visit a place they had never expected to see again, and with it, the memories of a long-lost lifetime.
Deus Ex Machina: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon story. "God in the Machine" - an all-powerful force that manifests in impossible situations and makes everything all right again. A staple of many a fantastic world, to be relied on when all else is unreliable. But what happens when the saving grace comes...and is refused?
Final Exam: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon story based on the anime version of Sailor Stars. If Mamoru wasn't expecting Usagi to see him off at the airport, why did he have the ring with him?
Oak Evolution: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon story. On the eve of the birth of Crystal Tokyo, a Sailor Senshi makes one last selfish choice.
The Undeserving: 2005. Complete. A Sailormoon story. Even in Crystal Tokyo, violence and rage endure. But are crimes of passion sins, or the very fire that makes us human?
I, Ginzuishou: 2005. Complete. A Sailormoon story. Throughout all the eras, all the battles, all the time traveling and reincarnations, only one entity experienced it all firsthand. What is the true nature of the legendary Silver Crystal, and the women who act as its host?
Shattered: 2005. Complete. A Sailormoon story. It was all so clear now. Tsukino Ikuko clung to the railing as she stumbled down the stairs and headed back to the family room. What kind of a mother was she, to be ignorant of something so huge? What was she supposed to do now?
True Soldier: 2005. Complete. A Sailormoon story. A serious injury suffered during battle brings Sailor Mars a fresh perspective regarding her princess and their roles as Sailor Senshi.
Crossroads: 2005. Complete. A Sailormoon story. The town of Sunset was the black hole of life, a desert sea of boredom that devoured dreams and never let its inhabitants go. Trapped in a town without hope, a young man keeps encountering setbacks that seem to make escape impossible. On the verge of giving up, he picks up a very special hitchhiker determined to turn it all around.
Misconception: 2004. Complete. A Sailormoon story. She lives her life in the shadow of a child who never existed, who was destroyed by her creation. Nothing she could ever say or do could fill the void the other has left in their hearts, yet she continues on, with one hope: Someday, they might love her as they loved Small Lady.
Green Bird Eulogy: 2004. Complete. A Cowboy Bebop story. This is a retelling of the anime episode "Ballad of Fallen Angels," shown through the eyes of Faye Valentine.
Golden Afternoon: 2004. Complete. A Sailormoon story. What would have happened to the five girls, had they not awakened as soldiers? Where would their lives have led them? Would they have still met each other and become friends? And what of Serenity and Endymion's love?
My Playground: 2004. Complete. A Sailormoon story. Twenty-two years old and married to Mamoru, Usagi lives as a housewife while the Sailor Senshi await the advent of Crystal Tokyo. Feeling useless and powerless, Usagi finds herself heading for the old Crown arcade, where so many things began.
Forgotten Friends: 2003. Complete. A Sailormoon story. The Best Man on Mamoru and Usagi's wedding day, Motoki reflects on the distance that has grown between him and his best friend.
Bittersweet Surrender: 2003, revised 2005. Complete. A Sailormoon story. This is a songfic about the final deaths of Usagi and Mamoru, in the distant future when they have ruled as Neo Queen Serenity and King Endymion for a long time.
Fanfiction: Epics
Against All Odds: 2004-2007. Complete. A Sailormoon story of the Silver Millennium. A twist of fate casts Endymion as a stable boy working as a servant in the Moon Palace, where he meets the Princess by chance. With Serenity engaged to another man, can the miracle romance triumph over the barriers of class and nobility?
Sailormoon: Eternity: 2003. Incomplete. A Sailormoon story. Destiny brings the Sailor Senshi a new enemy and a new ally. What kind of enemy can challenge the team that defeated Chaos? Will their new ally be a benefit or a weakness?
Fanfiction: Vignettes
Easy Come, Easy Go: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. The slip of paper burned in her pocket.
Sweet Dreams: 2006. Complete. A Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ficlet. Staring through the window of the candy shop, Charlie could almost forget it was winter.
White: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. Aino Minako hated white.
Shine: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. Sailor Iron Mouse loved to watch them shine.
Intoxication: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. They were as different as night and day. Why had they ignored all the more likely suitors and chosen to love one another?
Three: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. They had laughed when he died.
Homecoming: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. After his death at the hands of Sailor Jupiter, Nephrite was finally free to bring closure to someone he'd left behind.
Fair Exchange: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. Even if Sailor Tin Nyanko had chosen the path of redemption after being halfway healed by Eternal Sailormoon, a happy ending may not have been guaranteed.
The Prisoner: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. Although he has been pardoned, they will never trust him.
Unspoken Question: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. How could Nephrite look her in the eye and tell her it would be forever when he knew it would not?
Fear: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. Fear was an emotion that had become almost an alien concept to Sailor Galaxia.
Rain: 2006. Complete. A Sailormoon ficlet. Zoisite hated the rain. It reminded him of things he did not want to remember, and of someone he would rather forget.