Harmonizing the Waves:
The Works of Barbara E. Prater

I am slowly getting over my fear of being plagiarized.  I have begun to post some of my works, so watch for them if you're interested.  I beg of you, though:  please do not destroy my fragile faith in humanity by taking my works without crediting me; I will find you, humiliate you, and sue you, rest assured :).

My short stories tend to follow a theme of young women in some point of the process of losing and finding inner strength, growing or "growing up" in the process.  I have always had an overactive, daydreaming imagination; most of my stories spin off from something that could have been, or something that I saw in the people around me, or some little tangent that life could have followed but didn't.  I do tend to be sympathetically emotional in my life ... the story of others' lives affect me.  My stories:


I have been writing poetry since fourth grade (at least, that's the first memorable poetry I wrote).  Until my second year at college in Intro to Creative Writing, I had always considered myself a poet first.  I realize now that stories and poems fulfill two very different aspects of my creativity:  stories help get all those dreams and images out of my head, while poetry gives my emotions a place to explain themselves.  I could never eliminate just one, and there are elements of each in the other.

My poetry is fairly direct, "evocative" I am told, often image driven.  The subjects include love (in, out, and everything in between), inner self, nature ... I guess the subject of poetry isn't as important as what is said on the subject, though.  Some of my poems:


If you are for some reason insanely curious about what I write, please email me and I will send you things personally.

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