Story #47 - Jellybean

Hi everyone. Merry Christmas! I hope you are all enjoying the holidays. This week's story has to do with spreading a little holiday cheer. Enjoy!

Title: Jellybean
Warnings: none
Summary: Eloise is unhappy, and Tina wants to fix that.
Length: ~ 2,500 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. Genre is "other."

Story #43 - Five Times Larry Got New Shoes (And One Time He Didn't)

Hello everyone! This week's story is what in fanfiction is called a "five things 'fic." Basically, it involves five different events occurring, usually with a central theme and focused on around one character. It often has an added "sixth" thing that is somehow different from the other five. I've always wanted to try one, so I figured I could give it a shot on my blog. I hope you enjoy it!  

Title: Five Times Larry Got New Shoes (And One Time He Didn't)
Warnings: eventual character death, mention of alcoholism
Summary: Self-explanatory. Larry gets five new pairs of shoes, and one pair that wasn't for him.
Length: ~ 2,500 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. Genre is a five things story.

Story #42 - A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

Hello everyone! This week brings us to Story #42 - meaning I only have ten more stories left before I've written a year's worth of stories!! Wow! I want to thank you all for sticking with me this whole time. Oh, and this is also my 50th post. Pretty exciting! This week we have another love story, but a more traditional one. Pay attention to a callback to my very first story. :) Enjoy!

Title: A Rose is a Rose is a Rose (taken from Gertrude Stein's poem Sacred Emily, which I do not own)
Warnings: none
Summary: Jack thinks he's found The One, and he goes to buy her flowers.
Length: ~ 2,400 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. Genre is romance.

Story #41 - Reason #1673985

Hi everybody! This week's story is a light-hearted sci-fi one about a robot who falls in love. It was inspired by an episode of the TV show How I Met Your Mother that included these lines: "The robot found love/Confusing my circuitry/My software's been hacked."

 

I hope you enjoy this story!

Title: Reason #1673985

Warnings: robots with feelings, a lot of numbers

Summary:  CleanBot #33422 has been malfunctioning lately and he's not sure why.

Length: ~1,800 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. Genre is sci-fi and romance and probably a little parody.

Story #39 - Uncle Edgar’s Burial (and How it Went Wrong)

This week, for Halloween, I wrote a silly story about zombies. ;) I hope you enjoy!!

Title: Uncle Edgar's Burial (and How it Went Wrong)
Warnings: zombies

Summary:  Uncle Edgar's burial goes drastically wrong.

Length: ~1,900 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. Genre is closest to parody, probably.

Story #36 - Coffee

Hi everyone! For this week's story, I wrote about an age-group I haven't really tackled before - middle-aged! ;) As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially on how I did with this new perspective.

Title: Coffee (suggestions welcomed)
Warnings: none
Summary:  A middle-aged divorcee looking for romance.
Length: ~2,600 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. Genre is... drama, I guess.

Story #35 - Gift-Giving

Hi everyone! This week's story jumps back and forth in time, but it should be pretty easy to follow. It's a relatively fluffy, "feel-good" type of thing. I hope you enjoy it! :)

Title: Gift-Giving
Warnings: none
Summary:  Two gifts for two different yet similar occasions.
Length: ~1,800 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. Genre is probably closest to romance.

Story #34 - Of Knights, Dragons, and Maidens

Hello everyone! This week's story was inspired by the thought that I haven't done fantasy in a while, and never classic fantasy like the knights fighting a dragon to save a maiden kind of thing. That led into a good-natured parodying of that genre. ;) I hope you enjoy!

Title: Of Knights, Dragons, and Maidens
Warnings: none really, just parody, some silliness
Summary:  The medieval world from a Dragon's point of view.
Length: ~2,000 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. Genre is fantasy and parody.

Story #32 - Charleston County

Hi everyone! This story's a bit different than my usual. I had fun with it. It involves a sort of distant, semi-ominescent narrator and a more specific setting than is used in most of my stories. Also, it has only second-hand action and little dialogue, and a very specific voice. I'd love to know what you think about it! :)

Title: Charleston County
Warnings: references to bullying
Summary:  Charleston County - "Where even the squirrels can do no wrong."
Length: ~2,000 words
Notes: First person point of view, past tense. Genre is... um... I'm going to put it as "other" for the moment.

Story #31 - Prank Calling

Alright, here's this week's story. It's a memoir about the time I was a bad kid and prank called people, and then got caught. Man, was that a harsh lesson! ;) Enjoy!

Title: Prank Calling
Warnings: naughty children
Summary:  The night I decided to prank call was one of the worst nights of my life.
Length: ~1,100 words
Notes: First person point of view, past tense. Genre is memoir.

Story #27 - Identical

Hi everybody! This week's story was inspired by a building that I saw while I was in New York. It was an imposing brick building, labeled "Queenborogh Correctional Facility." It made me think of what it would be like to be living there. And then I had a conversation during dinner yesterday about identical twins. And, well, this is what the story turned into! I'm pretty happy with it. Enjoy! :)

Title: Identical (suggestions welcome)
Warnings: mentions of past criminal activity and possible present criminal activity, very slight languange
Summary: Neil and Nick like to trick people. And it's so easy, too.
Length: 2,450 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. I'm not sure what the genre is. There's a bit of romance, and then some kind of family/brotherly stuff. So I'm going to go with "other."

Story #26 - PDF, aka My Friend Kristin

Hi everybody! This week's story is more special than the others - it's my 26th story! This means that I am halfway through my challenge! Wow! It's been fun. I have to say, I'm more surprised to realize that this means I've been writing my blog for half a year, now. That's pretty intense!

This week's story is a tribute to my friend Kristin. Her birthday was on July 29th. Happy birthday, Kristin!

Title: PDF, aka My Friend Kristin
Warnings: none (tomfoolery?)
Summary: To my friend Kristin - the crazy times we've had!
Length: ~1,300 words
Notes: First person point of view, past tense. Genre is tribute.

Story #25 - Night Out in NYC

Hi everybody! Here's this week's story. It's a memoir about a recent experience I had. I hope you enjoy it! Oh, and I'm still traveling, but when I get back I'll add some pictures. :)

Title: Night Out in NYC
Warnings: none
Summary: A fun night I had a few weeks ago.
Length: ~2,100 words
Notes: First person point of view, past tense. Genre is memoir.

Story #23 - For Natalie

Hello everybody! Today is my friend Natalie’s birthday. She will be turning seventeen. I have known her for five years now. We first met in seventh grade, and now, after eleventh grade, we are still good friends. For her birthday, I told her I’d write a story about her. So here's the story!

Title: For Natalie
Warnings: none (occassional sappiness?)

Summary: A tribute to Natalie, one of my best friends.
Length: ~1,100 words
Notes: First person point of view, past tense. Genre is tribute.

Story #20 - For My Father

Hey, everyone. This may be rather predictable, especially after what I did on Mother's Day, but I couldn't leave my dad out on Father's Day! So, this is a tribute to my wonderful dad. Happy Father's Day, Dad! This one's for you. :)

Title: For My Father
Warnings: None
Summary: A tribute to my dad, for Father's Day. :)
Length: ~1,100 words
Notes: First person point of view, past tense for the most part. Genre is one I'm kind of making up for have several stories that will fit into it, so - tribute.

Story #19 - Waiting For Mommy

Hello, everybody! This week's story includes something I haven't done before: different third person points of view. Also, I challenged myself to include no dialogue. I hope you enjoy the story! Oh, and thank you for the comments on last week's story. :)
Title: Waiting For Mommy
Warnings: none
Summary: One little girl is waiting for her mom to pick her up. One mom is desperate to pick up her little girl.
Length: ~ 1,150 words
Notes: Third person point of view (two perspectives). Past tense. The genre is probably closest to drama.

Story #17 - On the Run

Hi! This week's story is sort of a cross between a spy parody and an action story. There's not a lot of dialogue in it, which I didn't intend on but is kind of funny considering last week's story. Oh, and interesting writer's insight about this story - sometimes the writer chooses the point of view, but sometimes the point of view chooses the writer. In this instance, it was the latter. I was going to write this in first person, but in the very first paragraph I realized that it wasn't going to work out, so I switched to third person. ;) Another fun fact - the main character was called Sarah the whole time I wrote this, but then I decided that Bella sounded more Italian and fit her better so I changed her name.

Title: On the Run
Warnings: car chase, shooting, but not really detailed or graphic or anything
Summary: It's time for one spy to make her escape.
Length: 2,300 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. Genre is action and parody.

Enjoy! :) And again, thank you for all the comments, and I'd love to know what you think about this story, too!

Story #15 - True Love

Hello! This week's story is what in fanfiction we call fluff. Urban dictionary defines fluff as "a kind of fanfic which has a happy ending or generally happy content".

The premise of this story is that this woman is going to Britain to see the royal wedding to find true love.
As always, thanks for the comments on the previous story. (Mom, I'm glad you liked it. :))

Title: True Love (suggestions welcomed, fed, and given lots of love)
Warnings: one cuss word, kissing, fluff, muteness
Summary: A woman goes to Britian to watch the royal wedding and find true love.
Length: ~3,750 words
Notes: Third person point of view, past tense. The genre is romance.
Disclaimer: I don't own Lady Gaga's song "Born This Way."

Story #14 - For My Mother

Hi everyone! Happy Mother's Day. This story is different from any of the other ones, because it's a "tribute story". It's for my mom, the best mom ever. It's not only Mother's Day today - it's also my mom's birthday. So this following story consists of a few of my most significant memories of our time together. Hopefully anyone who reads it will be able to find similar experiences!

Title: For My Mother
Warnings: None
Summary: A tribute to my mom. :)
Length: ~1,500 words
Notes: First person point of view, mostly past tense. I suppose this fits into the memoir genre, and inside that, it's a tribute. I don't know if tribute is a genre, but it should be!

Enjoy!

Story #12 - Three Little Words

Hi everyone! Man, I'm tired. I'm back home now, but I didn't get back 'till 2 AM. And now it's back to school already! Spring break sure passes quickly. Anyways, about this story - it's a true story about I not-so-great friend I had in elementary school. There's a bit of teen angst (even though technically I wasn't a teen in 6th grade). A huge thank you to everyone who commented on my previous story - I've never written horror before and I really appreciate the feedback. As always, I'd love feedback on this story too. Happy reading!

Title: Three Little Words
Warnings: depressing... bad friendship... negative feelings
Summary: "Today, I would finally do it. I'd finally say "I hate you" to my best friend of over six years."
Length: ~1,200 words
Notes: First person point of view, past tense. Genre is memoir, and inside of that, probably drama or angst.