You know the parlor trick.
Wrap your arms around your own body
and from the back it looks like
someone is embracing you,
hands grasping your shirt,
fingernails teasing your neck.

From the front it is another story.
You never looked so alone,
your crossed elbows and screwy grin.
You could be waiting for a tailor
to fit you for a straightjacket,
one that would hold you really tight.

About the Author

Name: Bones

Age: 17

Favourite Colour: yellow. And I just spelled that shit over there with a "u". My roommate tells me that I pronounce the words "calf" and "deodorant" weirdly. But that has nothing to do with this. Not really, anyway.

Hometown: Marabella, Trinidad and Tobago. For simplicity's sake. And for now I'm in the middle of nowhere in the Mid-west, doing an obscene amount of writing and publishing for someone my age.

Favourite Books: Sherlock Holmes (ASIS), Age of Misrule, How I Became Stupid, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories, The Vampire Armand, A Series of Unfortunate Events (Wide Window, Ersatz Elevator), Valiant, Autumn Castle, Wicked Lovely, The City of Dreaming Books, Frankenstein, Books of Blood, The Incarnations of Immortality (On a Pale Horse, Bearing an Hourglass), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, The Great and Secret Show, Lolita, The Velveteen Rabbit, Harry Potter (Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire), Sideshow, The Alienist

Memoir: Loose Girl (A Memoir of Promiscuity), Wasted, Running With Scissors

Comics: Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Squee, Elf Quest, Sandman

Manga: CLAMP, xxxHOLIc, Judas, Angel Sanctuary, Petshop of Horrors, MPD Psycho, Azumanga Diaoh, SWITCH, Doubt, Godchild

Favourite Short Stories: The Things They Carried, Quiet Men, Erasure, Railroading: Twelve Stories involving Trains, What You Pawn I Will Redeem

Fairy Tales: The Snow Queen (A Tale in Seven Stories), The Princess and The Trunk, The Widow of Ephesus, Orpheus and Eurydice, Narcissus

Anime: Gantz, Hellsing, Gankutsuou, Five Centimetres Per Second, Time of Eve, Blue Gender, Cowboy Bebop, Shakugan no Shana, Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell (SAC), Red Garden, Samurai Champloo, Fullmetal Alchemist

Fandoms (and ships): Gundam Wing (1x2x1, 3x4x3, 2x3x2, 2x4x2, 6x2, 6x1), Yuugiou (SetoJou, SetoOtogi, JouOtogi, MalikMarik, BakuraRyou, SetoRyou, SetoBakura, MalikBakura, MarikBakura, OtogiJou, JouRyou, RyouYuugi) Sherlock Holmes (HolmesWatson)

Interests: cigarettes, writing, reading, video games, manly men, girly girls, vintage dresses, dogs, being black, mythology, avante garde film and theatre, editing, fruit candy, purple soda, urban exploring, extreme amounts of sunshine, snuggling with friends, cameras, sunflowers, fantasy and science-fiction, punk, classical, opera, indie, being an art whore. and laughing. a lot.

rewind. did i forget to say slash?

Letter from The Editor

Updates will be slow, painful and few (not to mention far between). I'm apologizing for the wait you'll have to endure in advance.

Here's a link to some of my shittier tween stuff if you wanna take a peek: http://www.fanfiction.net/~sejouravecmoi

Please send me a message, I love meeting new people, even on the web!