Sorry to say that I haven't been able to update as often anymore! My life is insane...

Well, I'm new to this. Lately, out of my boredum I stumbled upon this website thanks to a PotO obsessed friend of mine. Really, I'm just trying to see if I'm good at writing or not. So far I only have "Dreams of Reality", "Merry Christmas, Darling", "Out of the Darkness", and "Brown Hair and Green Eyes". All reviews, good or bad are welcome. I want honest opinions. As Ben Franklin said, "the critics are our friends, they show us out faults."

If anyone wants to know a bit more about either of my stories, well, here ya go:

Dreams of Reality was my first fanfic to this site, but was not my first fic to the Phantom of the Opera story. It was an idea I came up with one Sunday afternoon and just happened to be one I put down to word processing. As well as being a dramatical romantic story, it also has a mysterious side to it. A young girl, Rachel, survives a car crash only to wake up to find her world turned upside down. Under the care of Erik and living in the apartment mentioned in various books such as Phantom of the Opera and Phantom she begins to believe that she is Christine and that all she ever knew was in fact a dream - just how Erik wanted her to believe. Erik still holds all the keys in the end. So the real question is this: was Christine simply having dreams to escape the prediciment of being Erik's wife, or was Rachel under the care of a man who loved her too much to have her remember any pain of her old life and thought Christine's life would be easier? Ooooo mystery! Read up!

Out of the Darkness was really random for me. I wanted to write another story and as I sat on my bed with a laptop on my lap, I randomly began to write. It's interesting how writing starts stories. Simple and yet complex, right? I took many ideas from many stories I've read from everywhere (including this site) and then molded those stories into something else. It's my first horrorish fic. I like horror movies and I do need to expand my horizons. Heck, I don't know if it was my writing at 3 in the morning or not, but I sure did get freaked out a bit. Still, I'm nothing too amazing. I've got to brush up on my Stephen King ;-) So the story tells of the most innocent girl in New York, Christine, and begins with her living a near perfect life as she graduates Julliard with her perfect boyfriend Raoul and her best friend Meg. Happy right? Wrong! Just that night a note is placed on her pillow without her knowing just after she turned out the light. That was only a warning. It's only until four days later that 'out of the darkness' she is taken away from life as she knows it forever. Freaky, but not too bad, read if you dare.

Merry Christmas, Darling is my first shot at a one scene deal. I will say that it is very dark and probably the darkest story I will write for a while. Since it's so short I won't say a lot about it. Just know that it is rated T for a reason.

Brown Hair and Green Eyes is my most recent work. I'm still waiting to see how everyone will like (or not like) it. A brief summary would go something like this: after living with her father in Canada for seven years, Christine moves back to her mountain home with her mother and sister, Meg, after her father dies from a car wreck. Once getting there she begins to realize that the past never really left her and that nothing ever changes in the end - including her lost love for a mysterious traveler with brown hair and green eyes.

fyi a/n: all my christine's and erik's differ from each other. for example, in 'dreams of reality' erik is rachel's interpretation of what she saw (and wanted) erik to be and in 'out of the darkness' erik is freaky and near insanity at more times then one while christine is almost overly innocent. yes, character's will mix and mingle every now and then with physical features and such, but each character from each story is indeed its own charater.

i still love all reviews; the good, the bad, and the ugly. this is a learning expirence as i've said before. hope you all enjoy my work! happy story telling!

God's love,

~the yellow flower