littlemao
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City
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Houston, TX, USA
About Me
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Crystal has attended LSC and CGC for her Associates, and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China to study Chinese Language and Culture. She began her career as a Pre-Med student working in health insurance, and four years later ended up two thousand miles away as a Linguistics major with a specialty in Mandarin Chinese. She has never lived in one place for more than a couple years, and spends a great deal of her free time planning her next adventure.
Favorite Author(s)
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Christopher Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, Wally Lamb, Anne Carson, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg.
Favorite Book(s):
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A Dirty Job, The Biography of Red: A Novel In Verse, Choke, Haunted, Fight Club, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Da Vinci Code, Song of Fire and Ice, She's Come Undone, Harry Potter, The Virgin Suicides, Cat's Cradle, Water for Elephants, Wuthering Heights, 1984, Animal Farm, Freakonomics.
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Stories on Textnovel by this Author
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recognition and reaction
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"...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and eac
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Collection of To Do List Letters
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"IV. You weren't there. I want
to tell you how it felt to hear
a heartbeat that we made, to see
fingers stretching, curious and
tentative to the world around it.
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Junoesque
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"Her hips curved with a slope,
wielding the juts and fury of the
Llotse's peaks. And no - no fingers
climb the crevices and summit
falls along her skin. The crest of
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Chasing Fireflies
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"She was like this great force in my life, a firefly I could never catch. I'd stand on my tippy toes, jar open and pleading at the sky, but she was always just a few inches too high for me. No
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Meteroites
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"And there's a
hole where meteorites and stars would
hide for hours at a time when the dark
became too thick to believe in
intelligent design."
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Kali
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"But I am never broken,
defeated in a crumble
at your feet, completed
only by a man to steady
my weak, weak knees
dancing circles beneath
little women
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Eros: The Bittersweet
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"i. it's a burlesque dance for the human heart"
This piece draws parallels between falling in love and a burlesque dance: that initial attraction, the slow removal of layers, the
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