Genres: Poetry/Romance. Summary: This is a collection of sonnets in the style and content of Shakespeare. Join Shakespeare as he tries to win the heart of his true love from the clutches of his dark mistress; but will he? Read and find out in the verses of good-old sonnets. Side Note: God help me, but I will do my very best! Anyway, please comment; I'm open to anything. Status: On-going...

One cannot always tell what it is that keeps us shut in, confines us, seems to bury us, but still one feels certain barriers, certain gates, certain walls. Is all this imagination, fantasy? I do not think so. And then one asks: My God! Is it for long, is it for ever, is it for eternity? Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is very deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, that is what opens the prison by supreme power, by some magic force. Vincent van Gogh, letter to his brother, July 1880 (ruby's letters may be read in any order, but the oldest is no 1.)