Below is an index of my posted Fugue projects, each with a condensed sample of the first paragraph. The most current projects are listed at the top.

23 - Stone Houses

It's the hardest thing to live in. Little comfort. A bit drafty. And not a whole lot of room in which to move. But I made this place, and it's all I have to house me. Do I have to live in it? Of course not.

21 - When a Body Eats a Body

Her pap smear came up abnormal, and the gynecologist did a biopsy. Afterwards, she had cramps for two days and spotting for four. By January 21st, she was feeling better physically, and that's when the doctor's office called...

200009 - Tangled Web Not Woven

Sometimes you just have to keep your mouth shut. If you lie, you break a code of honor. Yet if you say anything, all hell breaks loose. So we practice deception by omission. I don't generally lie, but I'll keep quite a few things to myself if I can help it...

200008 - Down Roads Not Taken

January 1st was like December 31st; I worked at the same company, doing the same thing for almost the same pay. Somehow, I was going to convince those who mattered that I could energize the company web site. I simply had to get "the suits" to know it...

200007 - Breaking the Pattern

I'm a coward; it's how I was raised. Encouraged not to dream too high or want too much, I was afraid during most of my childhood. It's why I never studied art and design in school despite my wanting to be an artist; I was afraid to try in case I failed...

200006 - Monsters and Magic

In the first dream, I was wandering in an unknown neighborhood. The houses all looked the same. Everywhere I walked, there were more of them. I continued down the path, searching frantically for my mother and knowing that I was getting further and further away...

200004 - Guiding Mentor

Some people are incredibly lucky. They're born to families that have access to every resource known to meet every need -- emotional, mental, physical, financial, and spiritual. Name the need, and it will be given. Better yet, it will be given even before the need is known...

200003 - Hungry Tigers

I was raised on fantasy and science fiction, raised on a foundation of lies. No one read me any Asimov or Tolkien; they simply told me marvelous untruths, and I believed them. The irony was that usually, I believed the lies and disbelieved what was actually the truth...

200002 - Delusions of Grandeur

I went to Fry's Electronics today for the first time ever. My boyfriend didn't want to take me there because he knew I'd go berserk in there, but he took me anyway because I needed to buy a mouse pad with a gel wrist rest; my wrist was sore from playing Minesweeper for so long...

200001 - Mirrors and Photographs

What do they see when they see me? I can only guess at the answer. At 26, I realize that you never know how people see you until you've had a lot of time and distance separating the view from the beholder, and even then it's hard to see yourself through others' eyes...

199911 - Fences

I can't count the times someone has said to me: "Be careful what you wish for." The problem is, I don't wish for altruistic or materialistic things. I wish for the end or the beginning of something, or the complete polar opposite of whatever situation I'm in...

199910 - Lost Time

I read about a man who could go back in time. When he got bored he would go back to a certain point in his life and start over again. It was like the life he lived after that point never happened, but the memories were still with him. It made me envious...