I'm 23, at the time. What else? I often have the feeling that things are wrong. Because I can't really change the way the world is (at least not in my freetime) I started to write.

About my stories:

Penelope Unclaimed (Bleach) -- temporarily removed due to formatting issues

This is an attempt to capture Orihime's mind in the style of the last chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses, Penelope (if you feel like it, look it up: I think her love for Ichigo makes her strong, even if he doesn't love her back, even if her heart gets broken. She shares a deep connection with him (albeit onesided) and senses through it a lot of his inner workings and emotional turmoil. In fact, she is like Penelope, waiting for Ulysses to come home and never giving up on him. And like Matsumoto said, Ichigo needs her as much as he needs Rukia. It seems to me though, that there's more than one side to her love. She's getting strong because of it, to protect him, to stand beside him. Then there's this feeling of inadequacy she has, that she's not worthy of his respect and friendship and the only way to be with him is him losing his mind and falling in love with her, in the haze it provides forgetting all about her perceived imperfection. But above all, she wants him to sort out his life and be happy, and when he's there she'll be strong enough to let go of her love and be his friend.

By Definition (Bleach)

Would you describe things between Rukia and Ichigo as complicated? It goes without saying that they're - somehow - in love, still it would be strange to see them together. Maybe the perfect thing about them is that they never put a name to it. They never say it's love, and they never say it's not (at least not seriously). With that comes a sense of freedom: Everything they do for each other, they do on their own accord, without some strange reasoning behind it that they have to do it because they're in love. Don't mind me, but I think something is far more honest if you do it without thinking, literally. Highly unrealistic, but it's a beautiful thought.

x how Ichigo might think about the whole concept of boys and girls
x Rukia most likely has a different approach to the whole thing

To Have And Not To Hold (Crossing Jordan)

I think that it will be difficult but necessary that Woody and Jordan address their past and feelings. Besides that, I heard spoilers that someone will die next season and decided to use that. This story will have 5 parts:

x the situation after Jordan is cleared and back in Boston
x Woody's perspective
- Jordan's perspective
x coming to terms
- epilogue