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AGE: 20
LOC: Greensboro, NC
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: November 07

I am a writer of young adult stories, mostly speculative fiction such as fantasy. I’ve been writing since I was twelve. My lifelong dream is to become a published novelist. I keep hoping that one day my dream will come true, as long as I keep working for it and believing in it.

I also love to read, of course. I like genres such as fantasy, young adult, sci-fi, mystery, thriller, action/adventure, and some horror. Anything with creativeness and/or great characterization.

I’m a very friendly person, so I’m always interested in making new friends!

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“You jerk!” Laila yelled, grabbing her glass of water and throwing its contents over Marcus. “Ay--!” Marcus exclaimed, the grin instantly vanishing from his face. He pushed his seat back from the table. “Dang, girl, what’s your problem? Look what you did! I’m all wet!” “Good. Maybe next time you’ll watch what you say to a girl on the first date.” “I just said--” “I know what you said, and I know what you meant...

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Chapter 1: A Warrior’s Life Royan held his sword high and watched his opponent through the eye slit in his helmet. The steel armor he wore was heavy and burdensome, but necessary. His adversary moved to strike a blow to Royan’s right. In a blurring whirl, Royan deflected the attack with his weapon and thrust at the opponent’s left flank. The foe spun away, avoiding Royan’s blade by inches. At the same time, his own sword cleaved the air and slashed at Royan’s ch...

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In the boughs of a young oak tree, a hooded figure hid in the shadows. The luminous moon only penetrated through a few gaps in the Unifern forest’s canopy, therefore he was barely seen in his black cowl and pants. Toliath crept forward, the branches creaking under his weight, and pushed aside the twigs and leaves blocking his view. The glade ahead was no longer empty. Four horses and a unicorn had ridden into the ample moonlight, their riders glancing around at the dark forest around th...

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Prologue The night felt darker than any other night Aurilyn had ever encountered. Not dark as in a shroud of blackness, but dark as in mysterious or wickedness. The air was ominously still and the moon could only penetrate its silver luminosity through a few gaps in the Unifern forest’s canopy. Those details should’ve been Aurilyn’s first clue that something was wrong. But she foolishly ignored her intuition. She thought she had nothing to worry about. Besides, she wasn&rsqu...

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Tya and Jani went back to the station and were cheered when they stepped into the building. A lot of people were calling Tya and Jani heroes for getting the hostages out alive. Tya didn’t feel like a hero and she really wanted to go home. So she let Jani tell everyone the story while she went to her office to change clothes. Carmen came into her office while she changed. “Tya, I need to talk to you.” “You can hear the story from Jani,” Tya replied wearily, button...

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by kiabrown

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by Talross

Not bad if this is just for practice. This was written very nicely. I like how it started suspenseful with the woman and how you made the reader think she was carrying a baby when in fact she was hiding the stolen chalice. In the beginning, you start from the narrator's point-of-view and even go inside the curator's head when you say he feared execution. Perhaps you should just start in the POV of the robed woman. You have some excellent imagery. I especially liked this line: "The rain soaked...

by martykate

It's weird because the beginning doesn't seem to fit at all into the end. The part about the Wicker Man and sacrificing seemed like a whole different fantasy world, and then it switches to a real world place like Seattle. I guess I'd have to know more of the story to understand it completely. I like this story though, except i'm starting to hear about vampires too often these days. I'm guessing the cresent moon symbol means Tristan is a vampire, that's why he grows up to kill people? I couldn...

by dcyuelling

This wasn't bad. I was hoping there'd be more excitement in the story by now, but maybe you're getting to that. Why did you change the name of the characters? The name switching confused me. Are you trying to use names that are less common? I don't think you need that background part about Blade and Stephen O'Mieles. If it is needed, maybe you could put in in a conversation between two people because to me it's somewhat tedious and disrupts the flow of the story. "read the new" news not new "...

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