Hi. I'm BDOD. People call me Dusty. I'm alive (12/13) and have lost ALL of my writing, INCLUDING my pride and joy story My Sweet Prince. That story weighed in at a whopping 30k for a one shot.

I'm 23yo now (crazy!) And engaged to a wonderful woman (yay!)

Any story I wanted to write or did write that isn't posted here or has been taken down because the rules have changed in the last three years in gone. Totally gone. But I'm back! You'll see more of my on my fiction press but I have some stories I may post here if its just something short .

I have changed my pen-name from Bloody Days of Dust to BDOD, mainly because I feel that Bloody Days of Dust was too morbid for my cute, cuddly, bubbly personality, but just right for my writing style, which tends to be rather gritty. and I've been BDOD for so long, why change it?

I have an account on Fiction Press under the same name.

I am going through the stories on the site. Some may be continued, some may be deleted. Who knows. I don't. I'm more focused on my original fiction.

Random: I HATE EVEN NUMBERS!! particularly the number 2

Quotes that changed my life

"You're my knight in shimmering armor." "I think you mean shining." "No, shimmering. You shimmer, and you glow." What's Eating Gilbert Grape

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it mean that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." Neil Gaiman i think thats how it goes and im sure thats who said it - however, i have known to be wrong on occasion

"Comrades all that stand and gaze. Walk henceforth in other ways. See my neck and save your own. Comrades all leave ill alone." AE Housman

“We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.” Edward Dahlberg

"…lost, hopeless. A little boy who’s discovered the monster under the bed is actually real and it’s screwing mommy –" Excerpt from ‘The Killing Dance’ by Laurell K Hamilton

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - i really don't know

PPPPS. I love you. The words aren’t charmed. They won’t change." - Harry's Letter to Sirius in Thistlerose's story "PS"