01/01/2016- As I look back on this small collection of old stories, I have decided not to delete them for both fondness, and as an opportunity to learn from my old writings.

I hope that I can learn from my old works and that it gives me the strength to move on and to one day become published. I do not anticipate any updates to my works on this page, but I shall not delete them. Anything new I post shall be on AO3 where you are welcome to find me:

http:///users/Pandora_DeRomanus

Until then, read on here. I appreciate all of your reviews, kudos, and encouragements. You were and shall always be my community writing family.

“You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot...

“The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance...

“I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.”

-Pandora