My Writing

<body background="stars.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#00FFFF" alink="#00FF00" bgproperties="fixed"><center> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="//ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </center>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-4KX380T5BD"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-4KX380T5BD'); </script>  <geoads></geoads> <p align="center"><font size="7" face="Burton's Nightmare">My Writing<br> </font><font size="3" face="Burton's Nightmare">"Here at our revels, some of us gavotte, other minuet, others lurch and spin and jig. There is <strong>no</strong> order here, no pattern, no...custom."<br> - Neil Gaiman, "The Kindly Ones"</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">My word!</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">No, no, no, it's nothing to do with you!</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">After all, visitors to </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress's</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> creative space are always welcome.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">As long as you know how to dance between </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">her</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> words.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">(I must admit, I like a good gavotte myself)</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">No, the reason I was surprised was the stacks.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">They've started to sort themselves!</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">No longer piled in precarious...well, piles, they've started to arrange themselves back on the shelves!</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">In alphabetical order too!</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Well I never!</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Still, that doesn't mean they've totally put themselves away, and there are still a few stacks which you should...</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">(CRASH!)</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Oh dear.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Oh well. I'm sure </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> will sort all that out, although if you hear </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">her</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> screaming, don't worry about it.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Psychic shock isn't as hard to recover from as </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">she</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> might claim.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Me, smiling? I'm not smiling, I'm just...</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Stretching my lips.</font></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">It is said that some of these books come from the library of Dream himself. I cannot comment on that myself, but I always thought that Dream's library only held works that had never been written, except in dreams.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">And all works here were written in a conscious state.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Although </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> is a bit doubtful whether that can be said of </font><a href="astrange2.htm"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">A Strange Encounter</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">. Does a three hour burst of inspiration count as consciousness? Who am I to say. Still, all things must begin somewhere and this is where </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">she</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> feels her work truely started.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Although I believe that it started sometime before that, but who am I to say?</font></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Oh, I see you are admiring the wolves' heads adorning the walls. </font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">No they most certainly are <strong>not</strong> stuffed and mounted! </font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">(The very idea!)</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">So what are they then?</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Ah...that's something you'd have to ask </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">. It's really not my place to say.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Although I do believe they arrived at the same time as </font><a href="harryand2.html"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Harry and the Wolves</font></a><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">. I remember this period well as this was </font><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">during the time when </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> was experimenting with different styles and genres. Maybe they're there as an entertaining reminder of one of the roads </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">she</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> didn't travel down.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">(And there are precious few of those)</font></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Yes, I agree the tunnels are a bit of an odd feature, but there is a reason for that. Not all of </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress's</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> work is kept in this happy little space. Some are put in other spaces, although those two are equally happy.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Or so I am told.</font></p> <p align="left"><a href="http://members.aol.com/mikeya1/death.htm"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Death Came for Me in a Glass</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> is a piece </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> wrote based on a mood. It's influenced by Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' but is more inspired by </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">her</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> own views of love, loss life and death.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">(Personally I always go with a dry sherry myself)</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Oh, and I have been asked by </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> to warn you that said story contains scenes of an adult nature and should not be read by anyone under the age of 18.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">I am reliably informed that </font><a href="http://members.aol.com/mikeya1/selena-true.htm" target="_parent"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">True Confesssions</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> originally had </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> in hysterics, although it is not at all humerous, stemming as it does from the notion of the police hiring an author to creatively write their prisoners' (false) confessions. And it's more science-fiction than it sounds.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Before we move on, I think it's only fair to pass on the same wise advice that my dear old mother once gave to me: that </font><a href="http://www.backtalk.org/Shadowydreamer/story/janestory.htm"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Telling Tales Out Of School</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> is sure to lead to trouble, as illustrated by this example of the early life of the vampire, Jane Simmons. </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">The mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> has asked me to point out thought that Ms Simmons was originally a character from a White Wolf roleplaying game 'Vampire: the Masquerade' and all such items mentioned within the story that relate to said system (such as clan names etc) are copyright White Wolf Studios.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">And the age limit of 18 or older also applies as there are once again scenes of an adult nature.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">(Really, young women these days! When I was a girl...)</font></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">I must admit, </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress's</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> book collection is slightly too esoteric for my taste but I've heard tell that it can answer some very useful questions, such as </font><a href="whatever2.html"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Whatever happened to Maxi Malice?</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> Personally I couldn't care less but it seemed important at the time to Mr O'Donohugh...</font></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Young people, young people, young people!</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Really, I wonder sometimes <strong>why</strong> I bother to keep going!</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">I mean, in <strong>my</strong> day, </font><a href="TRUELOVE.htm"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">True Love</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> was <strong>nothing</strong> like it seems to be for these two!</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">(It almost makes me want to simply give up bathing in the blood of young virgin girls and let time finally catch up with me!)</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Umm...</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">You didn't hear that last bit, did you?</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Oh good!</font></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Yes, I'm not sure either what a train station platform is doing there.</font></p> <p align="left"><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">The mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> tells me it arrived there as a result of a cross-dimensional rip and she's never got round to fixing the tear.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Of course I was shocked when I heard this and told her straight that cross-dimensional rifts can cause some very bizarre sights indeed, but she just laughed and said that she had already seen enough strange sights at train stations to last her a lifetime.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Such as a group of people </font><a href="SKUNK.htm"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Smoking Skunk on Kings Cross Thameslink Station</font></a><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> at 7'o'clock in the morning.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">At least, she <strong>thinks</strong> that's what they were doing. She was too tired from her weekend at the Edinburugh Festival to really notice and can't say she ever saw anyone light up, although there were plenty of Rizlas being played with.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">I just smiled and nodded at this, which is always the best response when </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> gets a bit...you know.</font></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">In fact I sometimes suspect that </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> is getting slightly strange in her old age (all 23 years of it).</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Last week she told me that </font><a href="Hiding.htm"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Hiding in Plain Sight</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> is often a very good way of going undetected by anyone.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Which of course I knew already.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">I mean, no one would suspect that the Bloody Countessa would stoop to the level of being a mere guide which is why this position is such a go...</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Ah.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Forgive me, I'm tending to ramble a bit these days.</font></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Oh, there is one final curiosity here.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">It's an attempt by </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> to perform a multi-media poem.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">It doesn't really work, and poetically it's not much, but </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">the mistress</font></a><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> likes to keep it here for artistic reasons.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">(Translation: she's too lazy to remove it)</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">So for the experience, just click on the link, wait for the music to start and then read the poem in time to the music.</font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">The poem is called </font><a href="Choose.htm"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Choose...</font></a></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Well, that's all there is.</font></p> <p align="left"><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">The mistress</font></a><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> is intending to put another work up via Raven Wolf but only when </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">she</font></a><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> finds the time, which </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">she</font></a><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> doubts will be any time soon. Still such is life. One moment you're tucked away safely in a corner of the Dark, the next you're standing in an oasis between a female mystic and a vampire slayer!</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">(Still, at least </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">she</font></a><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> respected my stance on </font><a href="mailto:selena.ulrich@dial.pipex.com"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">her</font></a><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare"> fan-fiction)</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">And anyway, both young ladies are quite charming.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">Sadly though I need a virgin for the thing to work properly, as sure as my name is Elizabeth Bathory.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">So why not click on the logo below and hurry back to the main page to get me one, hmm?</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="5" face="Burton's Nightmare">There's a good visitor.</font></p> <p><a href="choices.htm" target="_parent"><img src="small.jpg" border="0" width="89" height="36"></a></p> </body>