So, National Novel Writing Month is almost upon us. 50,000 words, 30 days. I've done this all but one year since I first learned about it in 2003. Last year I 'won' for the first time, though I'd come close before ( Read more... )

Suddenly too tired to think, much less explain, I shrugged. I don’t know, I said wearily into her mind. I fell asleep, and I dreamed, and then I woke up. I looked around the strange room with new understand, and I realized that my dream companion had, perhaps, done as she said, for now the names of these odd-looking contraptions came to me, ( Read more... )

What I did know was that the gentle light was comforting, and my consciousness moved toward it, though I remained wary. The glow suddenly showed the outline of a door, and now I slowed, stopping in front of it, admiring how the golden light seeped through the cracks in the frame. Curiosity overwhelmed my senses, and, not knowing why, I raised my ( Read more... )

The lights flickered on, and my eyes flew open in response. It must be morning, I thought drowsily, and frowned. I had dreamt again, of strange places and people and things. The dream had seemed so real, like a memory, but I had no memory… or so I’d been told. Suddenly I was scared. What if my memory wasn’t gone, merely buried? Keira had told me I ( Read more... )

The day passed by slowly, men and women of various colors and builds came to poke and prod at me, while the only constants I had being the stark white room and Keira, who never allowed me to be alone with these people. If she had to go somewhere - and she often did - then they all had to leave ( Read more... )

Who am I? The last thing I remember is also the first thing I remember. I woke up here, on a beach, surrounded by these strange people in white coats. They took me to a large white room and made me lay down. I say they are strange because I have never seen them before, like everything else here. But I’m not worried about them - not right now, at ( Read more... )

She was floating in the water, a lone figure, gently rocked by the lolling waves. Starlight filtered through dirty black clouds, the terror that had cast her from ship and safety. That same damp evil had wiped out most of her shipmates with one well-placed bolt of lightning. Her eyelids flickered open, revealing dark orbs that reflected the starry ( Read more... )

I was bored during Algebra II today, so I started writing something. I'd like suggestions/comments on it, too, if y'all would be so obliged? ^_^

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Blackness. Floating in blackness. Where? Bright light. Hurts so badly. Brilliant flash. Body spasms. Breath. Gasping for breath. What? Vast expanse of stars. Turning. Slowly, slowly turning. ( Read more... )

Found this... it's pretty old - three or four months, mebbe - but I thought I'd plop it in here.

( Incomplete, but here's the start )

Take Me Away
Take me away ( Read more... )