Anyone Can.
Not Everyone Will.

"I've grown up, but what I really wanted was to grow away. But if I have to stay, then I hope my vines grow out of control, until they choke the life out of you. Until you finally cut me loose."

Cassandra is eighteen with brown hair and hazel eyes, voices in her head, and stars in her eyes. She lives her life through words and almost-lies, stories and bloodshot eyes. She wishes she could be someone else. She wishes her voice was loud enough that her written words could be heard. But, for now, she'll wait until it's her time to shout.

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My story "A Game of Chance" was put in the spotlight on another poetry site. Apparently, it's that good. So, if you'd like to read it, please do.

Others I Recommend: "Today's Chosen Skin", "Am I Real?", "dreams-written-on-paper", "girl in the mirror", "Your Own Personal Paradise", and "Smoke Curling Through The Air"

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1. Used To Be » reviews

Used to be, I’d get so caught up in other people’s stories that I’d forget my own. To me, my own life was nothing more then a story I had heard, once upon a time.

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 525 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-26-08 - Published: 3-30-08

2. Unexplainable reviews

These scars whisper oh so sweetly “Don’t you wish you could be just like me?”

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 326 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-20-08 - Published: 1-20-08

3. Breathe reviews

“And here in town you can tell he’s been down for awhile, but, my god, it’s so beautiful when the boy smiles. Want to hold him… maybe I’ll just sing about it.” Songfic to Anna Nalick's “Breathe 2 AM”

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,071 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-1-08 - Published: 1-1-08

4. Today's Chosen Skin

“Is this all you can be?”

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 242 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-30-07 - Published: 12-30-07

5. Words On A Screen

Just because I am pretend doesn’t mean I don’t have the right to be heard.

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 575 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-28-07 - Published: 12-28-07

6. Resetting the Timer

Will I crack if I break this mirror in front of me?

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 778 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-27-07 - Published: 12-27-07

7. A Letter To You reviews

And never doubt that I do love you... whatever that means.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 918 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

8. A Tainted View

So if you end up passing me on the street, don't worry... your hands are clean of the mess that is my life. But, don't try to talk to me, because I don't really like you, to be honest.

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 685 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

9. Am I Real?

I can stop pretending now. Reality has finally killed the fantasy.

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 341 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

10. Don't Dance So Fast reviews

Please. I'm not ready to lose you.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 669 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

11. dreams written on paper

Stars and satellites are hard to tell apart these days.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 385 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

12. Electricity

If I touch it maybe, just maybe, it'll bring me to life. Maybe it'll get me moving. But it's a gamble. It could kill me. It could break me... but that's what I want.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 497 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

13. girl in the mirror

So take a good look, Life, and you too, Fear. This is what you made me. You took me, you broke me, you used me and abused me. But remember, I'm not playing passive anymore.

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,655 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

14. Heaven's Crying Angel Tears

They're crying for all the pain we put each other through.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 311 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

15. I Can Only Promise To Try

“I can't promise you forever. I won't.”

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 491 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

16. Scared To Death

“This story had a happy ending... or maybe not.” A True Story

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 582 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

17. Shut Up

Same conversation. Different day.

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 398 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

18. The Art Of Manipulation

I love the power, but it's a lonely life.

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 642 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

19. The Truth And A Lie

I know if someone asked me what I thought was the truth, I wouldn't be able to tell them.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 509 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

20. This Is My Stupid Thing reviews

Stupid people do stupid things. Even semi intelligent people do stupid things. This is my stupid thing.

Complete - Biography - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,789 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

21. Trying And Failing

I'm waiting for you to hold up your end of the bargain.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

22. Understand

You want to know what I want? I want to be someone else because the person I am... she disappoints me.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 392 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

23. What Do You Have To Lose?

All I wanted was to find what I had lost. What I got was more then I ever expected. It was overwhelming to say the least, and sometimes I do regret it.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 632 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

24. Write It Out reviews

Haven't we learned yet? It's never going to be different.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 402 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

25. Your Own Personal Paradise

Now that you're here, why don't you take off your coat, pull up a seat, and stay for awhile?

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 463 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

26. A Game Of Chance

Spin the wheel let it go, and wherever it lands… well, that’s your fate. Few win, most lose. The odds aren’t good, everyone is doomed to fail.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 751 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

27. A Greater Price

The past is hard to let go of, especially when it doesn't want to let go of you.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,207 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

28. All Is Fair

Maybe I'm so wrapped up in your laugh and your smile that I'm blinded to everything else. Maybe I am. But maybe I'm not.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 390 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

29. At The End Of The Tunnel

A morbidly comic look at suicide.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 612 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

30. Blood On Their Hands reviews

They pretend to care. They pretend to feel, but it's all an act. Hollywood has nothing on these people.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 772 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

31. Confession

They believe it'll ease the mind, soothe the soul, and mend the heart. But one thing it could never do is erase the memories.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 647 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

32. Empty Eyes reviews

A split second in a lifetime, a tiny nick in an otherwise perfect mask. That's all it took to cause everything I've ever known to collapse.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 700 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

33. Exhilarating

Fear may be paralyzing, but hope and love they're exhilarating.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 601 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

34. I Could Lie, But I Won't

I'll tell you the truth, one that's so close to a lie, that it might actually be one. But it's not.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 697 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

35. Imperfect Angel

“I'm only human, and that's my saving grace.” Songfic.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 693 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

36. No Part Of It

I fell head over heels over head, if that makes any sense.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 608 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

37. Of Silence And Laughter

Have all the lies finally morphed into our own twisted version of truth?

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 633 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

38. Once Upon A Time

“Baby girl, I'll give you all the romance you want. We've got the rest of our lives.”

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 792 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

39. Reliving The Past

Logically I know. But logic hates the dark as much as I do, and it's not bound by the four walls caging me in. Logic left the building long ago.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,412 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

40. Renegade

Life shapes who you become. The things you go through, how you react, determine who you will be. Life has made her into this.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 774 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

41. Save Yourself

I have to believe that you have the strength to save yourself this time.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 456 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

42. Smoke Curling Through The Air

“Perfection, darlin’,” she whispers, smoke curling through the air.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 451 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

43. Soon Enough

They should have looked a little closer.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 729 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

44. That's What I Believe

“... and I'm a firm believer in the things I believe.”

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,109 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

45. The Story Of Paine

Not many people know the story. At least not the whole thing. As with all stories, there are many different versions. Word of mouth is fast, but hugely unreliable.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 826 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07

46. This Endless Nightmare

A dream within a dream, or so it seemed.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 399 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 12-17-07 - Published: 12-17-07