Captured Silhouettes

By Stacy A. Foster

"In Captured Silhouettes, Stacy praises nature and pure love; she talks about existence and death, dreams and motherhood, and proclaims what she cherishes the most. She will foster qualities held captive in the seemingly featureless space within the outline of a silhouette. She will place questions into the reader's mind until the reader becomes the hero of her captive narrative.

'My story continues breathing day by day, but have I positively impacted reality in any way? Motherhood was the gift that I cherished the most; am I now done with milestones after being the host? ... '

And when the mind is troubled and questions, Stacy carefully conveys it to a fair end, an epic end for a short prose...

'Quietness muffles hardened voices, a gesture of calming capturing silhouettes in a concentration of existing; still.'"

- Halkios, Author, The Diary of an Angel

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jun 27, 2012
• ISBN: 9781475933079

Stacy A. Foster

Stacy A. Foster, author of Quill’s Metamorphosis and Captured Silhouettes, was born in the Spring of 1971. She grew up in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, a Detroit suburb. As a child, she wrote stories and poems; beginning at age eight, she wrote a series of soap operas featuring her Elementary School friends. Foster graduated from Central Michigan University with a degree in Broadcasting and she lives with her daughter in Northern Virginia. Given that Stacy A. Foster’s writing touches upon a variety of themes and emotions, readers often assume that her work is autobiographical. “Some pieces are fictional,” she shares. “I’m a woman with diverse interests. I hope that my readers relate personal meaning from my writings based on their own life experiences and unique perspectives.” In 2008 Shell, a work of Foster’s, was published in the Expressions Poetry Anthology. Foster contributed to the The Diary of an Angel international writing project. Additionally, in 2010 she had prose pieces published in Ethereal Erotica.

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Captured  

 Silhouettes

Stacy A. Foster

iUniverse, Inc.

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Captured Silhouettes

Copyright © 2012 by Stacy A. Foster.

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ISBN: 978-1-4759-3306-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4759-3307-9 (ebk)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012910561

iUniverse rev. date: 06/11/2012

Contents

AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD BY HALKIOS

CELEBRATION IN DOCUMENTATION

BLEEDING THE BENJAMINS

POWDERING CROOKED NOSES

SICKNESS IN STYLE

STACKING GREENS

UNCLAIMED CORPSES

GROWING UP

MIDNIGHT SUNS

PARTING WAYS

VIOLENCE NEVER MENDS

KLUTZ

SILLY CLOWN

THAT DAMN EAGLE!

ALL THAT IS YOU

A TUNE OF TONE

BEING HUMAN

CHERISHED

GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DREAM ABOUT

HANDLE WITH CARE

HIGHEST DEGREE

PLANET VALENTINE

ANGELIC ENDRIAGO

BRING IT, BABY!

PERFECTLY POUNDING

TROIS

THE QUAKE IS THE RUSH

TYPE

A STUMBLE AWAY FROM ALARM

BATHED IN BRAIN

DARKEST HUE

DISEASED WORDS

DOWNER

FORBIDDEN DANCE

GET IT WHILE IT’S HOT

HUMAN SLINKY

MEMENTOS

MISLED

NUMBNESS

PROUD TO SHUN

PULSATING HELL

RECYCLED POETRY

SELFISHLY SICKLY

THE INSIDE OUT MAN

THE RESPECT OF THE DEVIL

UNCONDITIONAL LIMITS

UNCONDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

UNDER YOUR SHOES

APATHY

CAPTURED SILHOUETTES

CONTENTMENT IN CONCEALMENT

DEATH SENTENCES

EXPEDITING THE INEVITABLE

FAILURE

HOMES OF THE VOICED SOUNDS

INEVITABLE GRAY

PAGING DR. FORWARD

THE PASTEL CANVAS

THE WONDERMENT OF IT ALL

DAISY

PEACE, LOVE, HAPPINESS

DIVORCE

SELFISH

SEVERED

VIOLENCE

WINTER WONDERLAND

COLD AND UNDEAD WITH SCYTHE-

SHARPENED JAWS

CURTAIN CALL (MICHAEL JACKSON)

DÉJÀ VU

FROWNING AT DEFINITION

HEY, HEY, WE’RE THE MONKEES

LITTLE ZOMBIE

MOTHER

FEBRUARY 10TH

LIFE’S BLUFF

THE LIME GREEN SNAKE

This is dedicated to my daughter and inspiration,

Amina Grey.

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