"Isn't this world something wonderful
that we were made to suffer both it's honesty and cruelty?
today?"

-The Echoing Green, "Suffer"

Last week or so, I've fought depression, and it's a battle I'm slowly winning. When I say depression mind you, I don't mean Emo-Oh-my-gawd-liek-mah-life-sux depression, I'm talking, not even wanting to get out of bed depression. Downright, "I welcome an early death" depressions.

Work has been killing me. Two people quit and one person got fired, and because I try my best to be a reliable person, their leftover hours got shoved to my schedule. It wouldn't be so bad, but the rednecks in my town are suddenly attracted to Dairy Queen.

This town is trying to kill me.

It's good money, but it just means that you guys are going to have more prolonged delays on Madness Before Teatime, for that, I am sorry.

But I will update you whenever I can sit down and write.

And now, for some horror recommendations:

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, translated into When Cicadas Cry Part I.

It is a simply incredible series. You'll laugh, cry, piss your pants, and never look at cute, little girls the same way again. My best friend, known commonly as PyroPro started watching and he agrees it's the freakiest thing he's ever seen.

But...the show is more addicting than crack. I'm already on Season Two.

Gads....the Japanese are truly masters of horror.

-SS

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Sorry for the lack of updates guys. Life has really kicked me in the teeth past couple weeks. Balancing my writing, plans for college (which scare the hell out of me), work, and decisions that I've had to make, have caused this page to be filled with random poetry. As much as we love poetry, I think you can write too much in one sitting, and I don't want to be one of the literature deviants that write nothing BUT poetry.

Bleh.

I'm working on it now, and it's coming out veeerrryyyy slowly. But I am working on it. I've had to pause and distract myself by hanging out with my friends, playing video games, and watching my favorite anime, Monster.

By the way, if you haven't watched Monster...DO IT. An incredible drama, with a story that immediately plunges you into the heart of each realistic character.

Johann, the show's antagonist, scares me. Don't let that sweet, innocent face fool you.

Other such randomness includes some amazing music I've been listening to:

Misty Edwards-"I Am Yours"

Further Seems Forever-"Already Gone"

The Cruxshadows-"Helen"

Emilie Autumn-"Save You" *sniffles*

Oh and if I haven't mentioned...my life has a soundtrack. It had one even before I got my ipod. Sometimes, this is cool, but sometimes it can cause your life to suck. I was in the movie gallery the other day and about started sobbing when "Almost Lover" by Jason Blunt came on.

I did NOT need to hear THAT song during THAT day.

-SS

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I suppose, I should take a moment to discuss what some of you I already watch realize. I love surrealism and the abstract. There is something so distinctly beautiful about it. I am drawn to little pieces of symbolism that might not make sense to anybody else, but in reality scream to be studied.

When someone is watching something and screaming, "This is weird,"

I am watching in utter awe and "geeking out".

So to all the misunderstood symbolists, abstract artists, and surrealists, you have a number one fan in me.

I bought the ipod shuffle this week by the way. I'm in love. All my favorite artists, in one little box that can attach to my belt loop.

After watching some music videos today by the acclaimed studio 'My Pet Skeleton', I have the inspiration for the fourth Middleburg book. Project will begin once Madness Before Teatime is complete. This book will feature all new characters, the return of some old ones, and the storyline will be explored even deeper.

The Lords of Silence, and the Guardians of Nothing are dead, leaving incredibly big shoes to be filled. Middleburg's secret is slowly becoming nonexistent, and questions arise about the disappearances of many of its citizens. Sometimes, the biggest threat comes from within.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil.

Nothing is never alive, so it can never die.

Darkness never truly disappears, it merely waits for someone to turn out the light.

The machine is capable of more than you think. It eats, it breathes, it lives, it sleeps.

The prisoners are clamoring for release.

The executioners are hungry for blood.

A girl fights to be reunited with her lover.

The lover has forgotten the girl.

The storyteller has disappeared.

The Lord of the Masks is dead.

Moths are crawling over the television set, and a camcorder is the greatest weapon against the dark.

In short...Middleburg, a city of secrets, divided into two, has gone mad.

SS

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My apologies for the completely random journal entry, I was just thinking on how intensely gothic the Victorian culture was. Take Alice In Wonderland, look at the effects it has had upon the modern art scene. Look at the artwork and twisted stories that emerge from its psychedelic pages?

I was listening to the 'Where Is Neil Gaiman?' CD off Rhapsody ((something I plan on purchasing)), and several songs contain references to Alice In Wonderland, such as 'Wake the White Queen' by Industrial/Dance band the Cruxshadows.

What is it about this story, and this era that we constantly go back to, romanticize, or darken it? Perhaps it is the fact that we simply relate to it. It is a subconscious revelation, but it is there nontheless.

We relate to the women, bound in chains within asylums. We relate to the working class, tied to an eternity of drudgery. We relate to the rich, middle class men, who are so caught up within modern entertainment, and the rapid changing of today's society, to notice the horrors happening beneath their noses.

Once again, I am amazed with how much I can relate to a story, but instead of a story this time, it is a time era that we seem to be so obsessed with.

-SS

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3000 pageviews!!

Holy shit!! This is a big deal guys!



Well, first I'd like to thank all the wonderful people who've helped support me, and the people who randomly clicked on my page or randomly favorited a piece of mine. I would like nothing more than to send tea and muffins to all of you. But sadly, I am out of Earl Grey, and we all know that Earl Grey is the most respectable of all teas.

So, since I cannot send you the gracious supplies fit for a British Tea Party, I will simply ask you to host your own tea party for yourself. You deserve it....guests are optional.

Starting my next big project in the light of Butterfly Dead's temporary cancellation is coming slow. The computer I've been writing on is in need of repair, and all that is left for me to write in is Mom's laptop. The laptop in question, is most often used by Mom and Dad for work.

I've been sneaking on it all day today to try and reply to your lovely messages. However, I cannot seem to hold this computer down for more than five minutes.

Oh well, you can be assured that this next story is going to kick major ass. I seem to have developed a recent fascination with corset-wearing heroines...psycho ones at that. N

Now, if I can just buy a corset and mail it to my girlfriend.
She'd be tickled pink.

Sorry, that was random....

I won't take up your time much longer. I do need assistance on choosing from an assortment of titles for this next story, an epic piece of historical fiction based off Victorian era madhouses.

Here are the titles I have:

Mad Girls

Laces and Chains

Madness Before Teatime

All My Ophelias

Really, the concept of the novel could spin off a whole plethora of wonderful titles.

Till next time!

-SS

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