Nienna Telrunya/Clear-light, Laurina Twain, Agent Twain, Tyro the Pyro, Dave/Dan, Lysine, Malevolence, Ann the Tomato, the Narrator, Anna Marie Winslow . . . whatever name you know me by, I'm me, writer and editor extraordinare. The pieces of fanfiction I have here are, I admit, not my best work, although you may find some amusement in a few of them.

The Larry of the Rings will be updated eventually.

As for editing, I have been a beta for many writers of both fanfiction and original fiction

Words for the Year:
2005: Decorum
2006: Anathema
2007: Dissimulate
2008: Surcease
2009: Murklins

Words for the Month: fine, desist, bumptious, loyalty, prestidigitation/legerdemain, sussurus, panache, apropos, strictive,
spurious, imbroglio, chicanery, perspicacious, stultify, gloaming, concatenation, sough, mnemonic, vicissitude, pleonexia, contraindicated,
maunder, perpetuity, stolid, neologism, foist, temporize, impassable, sepulchral, stentorian, tocsin, resound, nolens volens,
dissever, grotesque, glissando, idiolalia, pungent, quaggle, crepuscular

You know, it’s people like you who barbeque cashew-pickles.
Because time is subjective, it is either always that time or never that time.
Weak men know no pain.
Summer days expand with the heat.
The harder to get, the better to have.
Reality does not make sense; that is the feat of illusions.
Spinach makes me feel alone.
I feel much more like yesterday than today.
Money can buy happiness, depending on your definition of happiness.
There is always more time, it’s when that’s the problem.
Better forlorn hope than none at all.
Why wouldn’t I be able to talk to them? I can talk to snakes, walls, you . . .
Of course I’m out of my mind. It’s dark and scary in there.
Music and magic: no more than a two-letter difference.
I feel like moist fungus: all warm and fuzzy.
The world will end at exactly eight o’clock.
Words can create and destroy; be careful.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame or
money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man
must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.
“Because I can” isn’t necessarily a bad reason.
It’s not paranoia if they really are all out to get you.
Come with me/ and you’ll be/ in a world/ of pure imagination . . .
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana.
Do not waste time. That is the stuff life is made of.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Dracula was a business major.
I'm holding a steaming cauliflower.
Faster than you can cook asperagus.
I wiggle my slimification device at you.
My brain is slowly dripping out of my ears.
Fear of the unknown gives that fear amazing power.
Ein Erdnuss sass auf ein' Bahnstrecke, sein Herz war total flatternd.
Herum die Kurv' kommt Nummer Zehn. Tut, tut, benuetzutter. Quetsch!

. . . if you can tell me who said any of those, good for you. Most of them are paraphrases anyway, and some I made up. Guess which. No, really.

NO slash, NO 'Sues, NO badfics.

Recommended Authors: K.A. Applegate, Jane Austen, Dave Barry, Frank Beddor, Jim Butcher, Orson Scott Card, Susanna Clarke, Bruce Coville, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Neil Gaimon, Craig Shaw Gardner, Julia Golding, William Goldman, Robert A. Heinlein, Shirley Jackson, Diana Wynne Jones, Gaston Leroux, C.S. Lewis, Garth Nix, Edgar Allen Poe, Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling, William Sleator, Jonathan Stroud, J.R.R. Tolkien, Vivian Vande Velde

Recommended Movies: 12 Angry Men, A Beautiful Mind, Bicentennial Man, The Browning Version (1951) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Duck Soup, Finding Nemo, Finding Neverland, Gone with the Wind, Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh), The Haunting (old version), The Hogfather, The Importance of Being Earnest(1952 or 2002), The Incredibles, It's a Wonderful Life, It's Love I'm After (1937), Jonah: a VeggieTales Movie, Men in Black I & II, Life is Beautiful, Pimpernel Smith, Pirates of the Carribbean, Pygmalion, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935), Seabiscuit, Secret Window, Sense and Sensibility, Shrek, Sister Act, The Sixth Sense, Spiderman, The Ten Commandments, The Three Amigos, X-Men, Zorro (old version).

Recommended TV-shows: (child) Big Wolf on Campus, Bill Nye the Science Guy, I Was a Sixth Grade Alien, VeggieTales, Wishbone, The Zack Files, (adult) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954 with Ronald Howard), Doctor Who, the Dresden Files, Farscape, Forever Knight, Monk, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Nero Wolfe, Poirot, Star Trek, the Twilight Zone, the X-Files.

Recommended Theatrical Productions: Blood Brothers, Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Into the Woods, Maskarade, My Fair Lady, Once Upon a Mattress, Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, Trial by Jury (or anything Gilbert and Sullivan), Pygmalion, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Wicked.

Memorized Poetry: Beautiful Snow by John W. Watson, Even This Shall Pass Away by Theodore Tilton, Fire and Ice by Robert Frost, I Sit Beside the Fire and Think by J.R.R. Tolkien, Myself by Edward Guest, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, The Rose Family by Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, Yesterday Upon the Stair by William Hughes Mearns

Favorite Painting:
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche

Favorite Artist:
M.C. Escher