Hi beehove_me, 
All you writings beehove me to write something back, your expression is admirable, your stories present a crisp and vivid image of characters and situation that jumps right out of the screen and into my mind. My only complain is that very few things happen in your stories as if they were a few pages torn out of your novel. You have the total freedom of depicting a story in the entire or in just a few scences, but something tells me that the former would help you flourish more as a writer and earn more loyal readers like me. 
And don't call yourself a novice, because if that's the case then I won't even have a word to describe my apprenticeship.