General Information
Why is this Site called 'Reflection'?
"Look at me, you may think you see,
who I really am, but you'll never know me.
Every day it's as if I play a part.
Now I know, if I wear a mask,
I can fool the world.
But I cannot fool my heart.
Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me,
why is my reflection someone I don't know?
Must I pretend that I am someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show who I am inside?"
(Lyrics taken from the song "Reflection" sung by CoCo Lee)
Isn't that what everyone of us has - that secret me that nobody knows? Secret dreams, hidden thoughts, visions about what to change in this world? The side of us that we hide deep inside, because it is too fantastic to be considered adult, too revolutionist to be accepted by society... too strange to be taken seriously.
This site with all its art reflects that side of me and thereby reveals who I am inside. That's what the name 'Reflection' stands for.
Why are there so many butterflies in your layout?
Because they have a special meaning to me. When I was a child, about eight or nine years old, me and my friend were one afternoon lying on the grass in one of the backyards of the house in Berlin, which we were living in back then. It was a summer, where there were astoundingly many butterflies. And while we were lying in the grass, staring up at the clear blue sky with single white clouds passing by, we were dreaming of our future, the places we would go, what kind of job we would have and what we would do. And all the time, butterflies flew over us, high above. To us they seemed almost as high as the clouds, and we were thinking about what the world must look like from high up. It was a moment where the whole world seemed to be an open road, endless horizons and millions of possiblities. I still memorize it to be one of the happiest moments of my life. That's why butterflies still have a special meaning to me. They remind me of possibilities.
Quick-Bio
Penname: Kimberley Jackson
Real Name: Katharina Reese
Other Pseudonyms: Ainoyume (Art), Akasha (Fanfiction: Alias), Shanice (Fanfiction: Alias)
Year of Birth: 1982
Writing since: 1996
Writing Language: English, German
Mostly Writing: Romance, Adventure, Fantasy
Actively Written on: SD-1.com, XFiles-Mania.de, Livejournal.com, Fanfiction.net
Most Successful Publication (Online): Enemies - A Love Story (Fanfiction: Alias)
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Official Offers and Publications:
2004 - Publishing House wants to publish "Greek Summer" along with other romances.
2007 - Screenwriter turns "Show Me Heaven" into a script for a movie.
2008 - GalaGallery.org, a website to promote emerging European authors and artists in the U.S., publishes short story "Alive" on their site.
Favorite Story (means, story I had most fun writing): Island of the Living Dead / 28 Words
Complete List of Works
(Unfinished story will be listed in the year they were started)Italics = Unfinished
| 1996 | - Daughter of the Witch (Hexentocher) |
| 1997 | - Kalkra (Fantasia) |
| 1998 | - |
| 1999 | - Als der Falke fliegen lernte (As the Hawk Took Flight) - Belehrung über das Leben (Lesson about Life) - Indian Spirit - Pretty Soldier Sailormoon (Collection of 20 or more short stories) |
| 2000 | - Angel of Mine - Christmas Miracle - Dreamer - Entrapment - Mistakes - Return to a Usual Life - Silver Millenium - Undercover (The Net Fiction) |
| 2001 | - Greek Summer - Holo-Syndrom, Das - Kadetten-Jahrgang, Der - Memorial Vacations - Nightmare - Warrior of Hatchepsut, The - Windstoss (Breeze of Wind) |
| 2002 | - Alive - Island of the Living Dead - Library of Atlantis, The (Sequel to "Warrior of Hatchepsut") - Witchhunt |
| 2003 | - As Long As There's Christmas - Forever Tonight - Game, The - I Turn To You (Unfinished) - It Must Have Been Love - Marissa - Undercover - Way She Moves, The |
| 2004 | - 21st Century Juliet (written under the pseudonym 'Shanice') - Darkness of Love (written under the pseudonym 'Akasha') - December Challenge (Collection of 3 Short Stories) - Seashell - Second Chance - Show Me Heaven |
| 2005 | - Angel of Atlantis - Dangerous Liaisons - Enemies; A Love Story - Last Night on Earth - Reflection |
| 2006 | - African Americans in Art (Scientific Paper) - Caleidoscope - Eternal Moon - Haiku (9 Poems) - Lifeline |
| 2007 | - 28 Words - After Tonight - Alive (Revision/Translation of 2002 Version) - Beyond the Light - Blue Skies - Forbidden Fascination - Redemption - See You There - So Close - Wildflower (Poem) |
I still have tons of additional early (1999-2001) unfinished stories on my harddrive, but since some of them only consist of 4 or 5 pages, I left them all out, and only listed major unfinished projects.
