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Waifs and Strays

2008-08-23T11:58:36-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Family/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,084, Reviews: 0 Updated: 8-23-08, Published: 8-23-08
Status: Complete

“Immortal Poetry, deathless prose,” Rose told her sister. “Please try to get your clichés right.”

Clearing the desk

2008-07-27T18:29:02-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Humor/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,151, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-27-08, Published: 7-27-08
Status: Complete

The worst part? How can it be comfortable? I ask you! There are sharp corners and you’d have to be exactly the right height. What would you do if you were too short? Get propped up with encyclopaedias? I have several in my..." Brigid Lewis is troubled.

Tendrils and overanalytical tendencies

2008-07-26T07:04:43-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 857, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-26-08, Published: 7-26-08
Status: Complete

Soft, light hair brushes her face. It is different from the sheets, probably with a whole new other colour of its own. They are clothed, warm... and what, exactly? Prudence doesn’t know, and doesn’t really mind. It is too early in the morning to be epic.

Moments of Pride

2008-06-13T06:01:36-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Family
Chapters: 1, Words: 793, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-13-08, Published: 6-13-08
Status: Complete

Will Obeysekere doesn’t like to call himself a storyteller.

Old paths, newly walked

2008-05-04T08:15:42-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Romance/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,302, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-4-08, Published: 5-4-08
Status: Complete

Whatever the whimpering white linguists had forgotten, locals remembered them. “So, professor—” this, from the old friend who had the keys to their house. "Are you still madam's Not Husband, these days?"

Shared Succession

2008-04-23T00:18:19-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 604, Reviews: 0 Updated: 4-23-08, Published: 4-23-08
Status: Complete

“That’s remarkably unkind of you. This is a public place—you’re meant to be the kind one!” A sibling moment.

Fairy Queen

2008-03-20T07:49:39-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,265, Reviews: 0 Updated: 3-20-08, Published: 3-20-08
Status: Complete

Concerts are bigger than exams. Bigger than sleepovers. Bigger than her cousin’s birthday where someone spiked the punch. A Camille character-piece.

Flare

2008-03-13T06:04:52-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Romance/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 490, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-13-08, Published: 3-13-08
Status: In-Progress

She turned the lights off out of fear and habit, forgetting who was with her." Not suitable for small children or the cleaner minded. Porn, darlings. A present for Lady Patience.

Time to tell

2008-03-07T04:40:31-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,665, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-7-08, Published: 3-7-08
Status: Complete

She doesn’t make a habit of it, but watching the Crown Princess’ progress though school was somehow fascinating—the shifting, shrinking, expanding concentric circle of her social scene as rich and detailed as you might find in any anthropological study.

Mirrors

2007-12-19T00:00:25-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 3,120, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-19-07, Published: 12-19-07
Status: Complete

“You’re terribly obvious, you know.” They both are. Incest, lesbian sex, a bit of genuine affection and a whole lot of words.

Deluded Size Five

2007-11-27T00:08:19-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 957, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-27-07, Published: 11-27-07
Status: In-Progress

She takes it and hauls herself up, wincing. Okay, so she isn’t completely stupid. She’s taking off the shoes. “Impulse buy.” Because she likes pain?

Sylvia

2007-11-26T18:12:04-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 290, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-26-07, Published: 11-26-07
Status: Complete

No one notices the girl on the train.

Silence? Elle est foutue

2007-11-02T04:28:19-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 936, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-2-07, Published: 11-2-07
Status: Complete

His mother being almost halfright about it all was the worst thing, and it meant that, at almost thirty, he was speaking aloud more than he had in his entire youngadult life. Excuse my French. Er...literally.

Backformation

2007-09-18T05:47:54-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 809, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-18-07, Published: 9-18-07
Status: Complete

They say that once I was not here.

Answers, always

2007-09-18T02:00:31-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 439, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-18-07, Published: 9-18-07
Status: Complete

Liesel turned, leaving the tea, hands on her shoulders, feeling the urge to strike out and say just the right words more than she had in many, many years.

Flashes

2007-09-09T01:47:32-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 236, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-9-07, Published: 9-9-07
Status: Complete

You draw floorplans of a house uncertain of its hemisphere...a small pantoum

Sentence

2007-09-09T00:45:28-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 398, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-9-07, Published: 9-9-07
Status: Complete

Everything, just about, is still all right. Just about. Still. For now. Somehow. Miraculously. And coffee! Coffee is good. Well...tea...

Lying, Cinderella?

2007-06-06T08:13:48-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Humor/General
Chapters: 5, Words: 3,916, Reviews: 15 Updated: 6-6-07, Published: 9-20-03
Status: In-Progress

A story about stories, now more truth than lies.

Small, fat men with dolls

2007-01-09T03:45:41-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Humor/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 113, Reviews: 0 Updated: 1-9-07, Published: 1-9-07
Status: Complete

I'm sorry, but I simply have no idea what to do with you!

Layers and botchulism

2006-11-21T05:15:23-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 74, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-21-06, Published: 11-21-06
Status: Complete

A conversation poem. When big needles get in the way of haircuts.

Morning Nonsense

2006-04-10T01:43:02-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 195, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-10-06, Published: 4-10-06
Status: Complete

“Can I name him Maximilian?”//That’s a long word, can you spell it?//No, but I can guess it.//And find words that come Oh, so close, //Like tax, or trillion.//And that is nearly Maximilian.”

Comfortable Silence

2006-04-01T14:44:22-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 905, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-1-06, Published: 4-1-06
Status: Complete

The air was gilded, then touched with pink, birds darkened into silhouettes in contrast, squabbling melodiously among themselves about sex and food and who had the biggest wingspan.

Sitting in Corners

2006-03-14T19:32:22-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 478, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-14-06, Published: 3-14-06
Status: Complete

Métis never pretended that she really fit in with her family, but at least SHE was polite! A younger sister has death-wishes for The Woman.

The Quiet Confessions of a Shy Vicious Mistress

2006-03-07T04:16:13-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Biography
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Humor
Chapters: 10, Words: 5,446, Reviews: 9 Updated: 3-7-06, Published: 5-25-04
Status: Complete

A test of my courage: leaving myself vulnerable through a collection of bittersweet dreams.

A Simple Thing

2006-03-04T01:19:08-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 563, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-4-06, Published: 3-4-06
Status: Complete

The third thing was this: Aud knew that she would never fit her body again. It was shrinking around her, a clenching mass of skin and limbs, and she stank. Aud would never escape the stench of herself.

God and Soup and Brick dust

2006-03-03T17:43:36-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 522, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-3-06, Published: 3-3-06
Status: Complete

People insist on talking to Thyme, even when she doesn't want them to. So, Thyme talks to God, and doesn't care whether or not he's actually going to listen. Rated for language.

Magpie

2006-02-27T00:16:36-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 79, Reviews: 1 Updated: 2-27-06, Published: 2-27-06
Status: Complete

"She's all jeans and words and sequins-and she always forgets to keep left."

Ma belle, je désire descendre

2006-02-13T03:34:35-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Love
Language: French, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Humor/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 1 Updated: 2-13-06, Published: 2-13-06
Status: Complete

"En vérité, c'est vrai." Un cadeau, c'est tout. Je vous implore que vous me pardonnez

Amphibian Evangelist

2006-01-25T13:56:51-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 988, Reviews: 0 Updated: 1-25-06, Published: 1-25-06
Status: Complete

"I looked at it. My tongue caught traces of frog around my mouth. I looked again, and it seemed that I’d finally managed to swallow some religion." Ah, blessèd seclularism!

Darkness of the Everyday

2006-01-16T01:41:50-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 419, Reviews: 3 Updated: 1-16-06, Published: 1-16-06
Status: Complete

Lena never likes making an entrance after Epiphany. Somehow she always feels shabby—what, exactly, can follow such a name? The ‘Crown Princess Elene’, Lena knows, is anticlimactic in every sense.

Three Marks

2005-12-15T18:42:09-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 563, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-15-05, Published: 12-15-05
Status: Complete

Bethan knew she had fallen for a collection of stories covered in skin, but he was also quiet and kind, talking low and serious to her. He looked at her with calm grey eyes and handed her his weaknesses, his fears, until Beth thought that she was the olde

Someone Else's Music

2005-11-08T03:53:51-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 510, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-8-05, Published: 11-8-05
Status: Complete

It’s almost unseemly, actually, like a painless natural labour or genuinely brilliant first-time sex. Easy weddings just shouldn’t happen. It’s not fair.

Royal Trials

2005-11-01T16:53:46-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 330, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-1-05, Published: 11-1-05
Status: Complete

Sometimes little girls can be very, very stupid.

Pink Curtains

2005-10-29T02:07:00-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-29-05, Published: 10-29-05
Status: Complete

I draw curtains to block out three in the afternoon.

Alas, Alack!

2005-10-25T05:17:24-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 113, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-25-05, Published: 10-25-05
Status: Complete

I mourn! Oh, how I mourn!

Questions and Answers

2005-10-25T05:13:58-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 193, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-25-05, Published: 10-25-05
Status: Complete

The thought of life clutching at her with tiny, determined fingers made Verity’s stomach bottom out even as it grew.

201

2005-10-11T16:17:33-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-11-05, Published: 10-11-05
Status: Complete

The chaos that is a school 'intergration office'.

Needs, Wants, Truths

2005-10-01T01:19:56-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 508, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-1-05, Published: 10-1-05
Status: Complete

"Colours transformed into tastes on her tongue: mint, orange; lavender and rose petal. A dream, a kiss. An I for Isobel." A quick character sketch.

A Get Well Poem Close to Midnight

2005-09-18T15:55:26-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 93, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-18-05, Published: 9-18-05
Status: Complete

The wirst poem in the world, but its heart is in the right place. Honestly, though, it's an embarrasment.

Catharsis

2005-04-03T21:32:29-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 828, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-3-05, Published: 4-3-05
Status: Complete

She deserves so much better on her birthday.

Coiled in Three Wires

2005-03-16T22:32:50-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 184, Reviews: 5 Updated: 3-16-05, Published: 3-16-05
Status: Complete

Long-distance phonecalls can be bittersweet.

Passive

2005-01-10T00:21:53-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 2, Words: 257, Reviews: 6 Updated: 1-10-05, Published: 6-18-03
Status: Complete

Be passive, child. Let them do what they will. (My Life as a Mannequin)

Pepper Grinder: Trauma Dream

2004-12-28T01:00:31-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Horror
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 2, Words: 645, Reviews: 5 Updated: 12-28-04, Published: 11-14-04
Status: Complete

There’s something so funny about all this. The break acts like hinges. I’ve got fingertips on the back of my wrist. Isn’t that funny? Isn’t it?

Streetside Observations

2004-11-06T04:44:29-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 2, Words: 145, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-6-04, Published: 11-2-04
Status: Complete

A busy cafe scene in the shadow of a fading cathedral in Melbourne.

Invade Me

2004-11-05T00:31:35-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 101, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-5-04, Published: 11-5-04
Status: Complete

Feel free

A Poem Free of Italics

2004-08-28T01:53:20-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-28-04, Published: 8-28-04
Status: Complete

...Which is exceptionally rare, for me.

Crying Through Sweat and a Face Mask

2004-08-03T01:08:35-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 144, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-3-04, Published: 8-3-04
Status: Complete

The indignities and terror associated with medical procedures come to a head during an MRI

Fey Little Song

2004-05-28T21:30:34-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 86, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-28-04, Published: 5-28-04
Status: Complete

A eulogy for a friend, two years too late.

Loco Parentis

2004-05-27T02:41:39-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: School
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Horror/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 165, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-27-04, Published: 5-27-04
Status: Complete

Not all teacher-student abuse is sexual. Often, it can be comitted by those who just want to care. And, of course, be seen as caring.

Fear

2003-12-10T03:54:17-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Supernatural
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Suspense/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 490, Reviews: 4 Updated: 12-10-03, Published: 12-10-03
Status: Complete

A faded, greying werewolf desperately tries to write a letter, because she has to. Life is going back to what she is used to, so she is afraid. Sometimes, fear is nameless.

Eight Items or Less

2003-11-17T02:09:05-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 130, Reviews: 7 Updated: 11-17-03, Published: 11-17-03
Status: Complete

A supermarket, a gun, and stifled laughter. A nod to all things that are both absurd and real at the same time.

Why Not?

2003-11-16T21:26:24-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Supernatural
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Supernatural/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 973, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-16-03, Published: 11-16-03
Status: Complete

A dream, or terribly real? A lonely fisherman, on an empty sea-watched by nervous eyes underwater.

Ulaile

2003-08-22T19:44:26-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 103, Reviews: 9 Updated: 8-22-03, Published: 8-22-03
Status: Complete

Have you ever made a word which could never fail?

Lying in the Face of Convention

2003-05-29T19:52:21-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: School
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 6 Updated: 5-29-03, Published: 5-29-03
Status: Complete

Just a cute little thing. Don't read it if you like 'conventional' poetry. Actually, please do.

Girl Afraid

2003-02-24T18:27:01-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 2 Updated: 2-24-03, Published: 2-24-03
Status: Complete

A small look into the relationship between a daughter and mother, and why it is so hard to understand the tensions inside another human being.

Watching the Dance

2002-03-07T15:10:42-08:00

Author: Kitty Ryan
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Mystery
Chapters: 1, Words: 254, Reviews: 5 Updated: 3-7-02, Published: 3-7-02
Status: Complete

A true story, about someone I know very well. Covers the issue of discrimination against those with disabilities.