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About Myself:

I'm still just a student in high school who just wants to get better at writing. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. I'm here because I want to get better at writing and I want to see what others think of my pieces.

I discovered a love for writing nonfiction after reading an excerpt from Russell Baker's Growing Up. I mainly write nonfiction, but I also like to try to step out of the box and try different things.

You're probably wondering about my style of poetry. It started out as an idea that I had while driving to work one day listening to the radio play the song Layla. I loved how it went from the crazy guitar solo to the piano, and I wanted to capture that feeling of "chaos and order" in a poem. I went into work and it started raining and a kid that I worked with started complaining about how weatherman never get the weather right. And that is how ThE sToRm was born. Because of the feedback from that poem, I researched some of e.e. cummings and twisted a bit of his style into mine.

Some of my favorite books include: The Catcher in the Rye, The Importance of Being Earnest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Gatsby and Flipped. I would also recommend any writer to read On Writing Well. It sounds like a boring book, but it is quite entertaining and you might learn something.

I am currently taking down some of my stuff for revision, but I'm quite lazy so I might not get around to it for a while. That is also why I have not finished my series. It will come, some time soon.

Sorry I'm not on here as often as I use to be. With school starting back up, I don't have as much free time as I did during the summer.

Stories

Published Short Stories

Date	Title	Category	Hits
Oct 6, 2008	Slave to the World, Chapter 2	Horror	63
Sep 28, 2008	Slave to the World, Chapter 1	Horror	118
Sep 27, 2008	Losing Him	Romance	293
Sep 17, 2008	Slave to the World, Chapter 0	Horror	334
Sep 5, 2008	Things aren't always as they appear	Non-Fiction	194
Sep 4, 2008	BREAKING through the SuRfAcE	Poetry	90
Aug 22, 2008	missing	Mystery	140
Aug 11, 2008	bottled UP	Poetry	306
Jul 22, 2008	heaven won't let me in	Poetry	185
Jul 3, 2008	ThE sToRm	Poetry	222
Jul 1, 2008	I Am the Failure	Poetry	269
Jun 13, 2008	Falling to Pieces, Chapter 2	Adventure	98
Jun 11, 2008	The Last of the Fears	Non-Fiction	212
May 27, 2008	Falling to Pieces, Chapter 1	Adventure	156
May 18, 2008	The Undreadful Monday	Non-Fiction	612
May 8, 2008	I shall not live in vain	Miscellaneous Stories	329

Comments

Total number of comments: 228

Title article: Teddy
Date: 2008-10-09 20:03:41

this was quite amazing. i liked the twist at the end, how it was all a dream. excellent story, its sad that stuff like that really happens. your characters were very well developed, the girl and the teddy bear had a strong emotional pull in them and it was cool how it was all seen through the eyes of a teddy bear.

Title article: Palin Fever
Date: 2008-10-09 15:48:37

very funny, i like the back and forth dialogue. i saw the title and i just had to read this, especially since my character in the new project 30 is going to turn into sarah palin.

Title article: Bittersweet Soldering
Date: 2008-10-09 15:16:34

i really liked this, the dialogue was very good and believable. i also think that it was what kept me hooked into the story. the characters were also nicely developed and i couldnt help but feel some sadness for the girl at the end.

nice piece

Title article: Bar Love
Date: 2008-10-08 15:52:46

i loved this, i loved the dark setting of it and the descriptions. i didnt mind the rhyming much, i didnt even really notice it until i read the other comments. i also like the way that you set it up. it was different, but cool

Title article: In Uniform
Date: 2008-10-05 18:49:34

your poetry is soo good. i like how you describe the otherworld and refer to it in your poems. i also love your imagery, its beautiful.

Title article: TO WHOM IT MIGHT CONCERN (Gambia Oct '08)
Date: 2008-10-05 11:37:10

ill miss your wonderful comments and stories. i wish that all goes well with your wife's surgery and hopefully you'll be back in may. good luck with running the restuarant.

Title article: To all the Young Lovers
Date: 2008-10-05 11:31:45

wow this was beautiful. i loved the imagery that you put into it and about the imaginery world. i wish you and your fiance the best of luck, seventeen is so young, i could never imagine being engaged. its great that you know yourself though and that you found true love.

Title article: Passing On The Stairs
Date: 2008-10-01 16:22:33

this was really good, i hate those awkward moments where you know someone but your not sure whether to or not talk to them when you like walk by. great poem, it flowed nicely and i liked the descriptions

Title article: Love Crawls Down the Drain
Date: 2008-09-30 20:50:37

i saw this labeled as a romance and i was wondering how it would work out. the spider thing was so gross, ill never be able to look at a toothbrush the same way again. it was funny though, i was laughing while reading it. my favorite part though was when their on the date and the descriptions.

Title article: Wish ( Her lullyaby)
Date: 2008-09-28 20:40:52

this was good. it must have been hard to come up with words that rhyme with the -ay ending. its like what bubbly did, but way better. this actually has a meaning to it.

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Max Booth III (Zombie Punk)

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Name	Entry
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk)	Created On: 09/23/2008 03:35:34 Sometime in the future ...
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk) getting the hell out of massachusetts	Created On: 09/05/2008 19:14:13 Okay, we're leaving. Steve Carell freaks me out ... why does he always have to scream like that? Something's terribly wrong with his soul, it's the only conclusion I've been able to come up with.
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk) Coming for you	Created On: 09/05/2008 19:03:53 Did you really think I would find that funny?? I find that highly offensive to my Indiana people. You have pissed off an entire state. We're coming for you, Amanda. We have corn n' the cobb with hidden razor blades ... and that's about all Indiana has. Well, it has me and that's priceless. You've pissed off the wrong tribe.
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk) In your head	Created On: 09/05/2008 18:42:44 sumbitch! smacks self in the forehead i knew that, too. Nope, it's a song by the Rolling Stones called "Jumpin' Jack Flash" Yes, it did. It does that all the time for me. Damn ghosts and their cruel tricks ... one day i'll make 'em all pay ... with possessed blood thirty purses
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk)	Created On: 09/05/2008 18:27:01 Lol i wasn't trying to guess a song. To be honest, i didn't know that thing you quoted was a song. Isn't that a nursery rhyme? shit ... it sounds familiar. Why must you curse me?!
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk) Dublin	Created On: 09/05/2008 18:10:26 I was born in a cross-fire hurricane And I howled at my ma in the driving rain, But its all right now, in fact, its a gas! But its all right. Im jumpin jack flash, Its a gas! gas! gas! I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag, I was schooled with a strap right across my back, But its all right now, in fact, its a gas! But its all right, Im jumpin jack flash, Its a gas! gas! gas! I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead. I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled. I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread. Yeah, yeah, yeah I was crowned with a spike right thru my head. But its all right now, in fact, its a gas! But its all right, Im jumpin jack flash, Its a gas! gas! gas! Jumping jack flash, its a gas Jumping jack flash, its a gas Jumping jack flash, its a gas Jumping jack flash, its a gas Jumping jack flash
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk)	Created On: 09/05/2008 17:55:31 Well he needs to learn how we handle things here in the States. No matter how terrifying they may be I don't understand. My name is Max ... not Jack. Are ... are you smoking the reefer?
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk) Alaska	Created On: 09/05/2008 17:39:03 Edited By Max Booth III (Zombie Punk) On: 09/05/2008 17:39:26 Oh, I see. If he doesn't watch his back I'm gonna sick a purse on his ass. See how he likes that! any 3's?
Max Booth III (Zombie Punk)	Created On: 09/05/2008 17:08:34 Do I have a monopoly? What the hell is that supposed to mean? I'm more of a Go Fish kind of guy
Philip Neale (philneale1952) Derbyshire, England	Created On: 08/23/2008 13:07:38 Jeeez it took me like three hours to get to the end of this book. Does Max have a monopoly? Anyway, singing in (just the once). Phil