NaNoWriMo 2013 - DECK THE HALLS! by onnawufei, literature
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NaNoWriMo 2013 - DECK THE HALLS!
I love Christmas decorations. One of the biggest bummers about living in an apartment is that I don’t have a front yard to decorate. The most I get is the balcony. We also got to decorate the coffee shop, which was an… interesting experience. It worked out, and the shop is very sparkly and colorful and festive, it just required a lot of yelling, at least according to Tycho. He’s a strange one.
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"DECK THE HALLS!"
Trace rolled her eyes. She and Tycho were alone in the coffee shop with a box of various Christmas ornaments, and Tycho had taken on the role of slave driver. “I’m decking.”
“Dec
NaNoWriMo 2013 - Obligatory Wicker Man Reference by onnawufei, literature
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NaNoWriMo 2013 - Obligatory Wicker Man Reference
“So apparently Jordan is never coming over here again. Ever.” Tycho said, looking down at his phone. “He used four exclamation points there so he might actually mean it.”
Angel nodded. “That sounds pretty serious, at least for Jordan anyway.”
“Maybe you should apologize.”
“What?” Trace asked, truly dumbfounded. “What for?”
“For traumatizing him?” Angel suggested. “That’s just a thought.”
“Okay, nobody ever told me he was deathly afraid of bees. In all the time I’ve known him, which admittedly isn’t a hugely long
NaNoWriMo 2013 - Introducing Trace Robinson by onnawufei, literature
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NaNoWriMo 2013 - Introducing Trace Robinson
Um... hi? I don't think I've actually kept a journal since I was in school, so I kind of forgot how to start them. I’m just supposed to start babbling I guess. Here goes…
So, my therapist said I should start keeping a journal. She's not going to read it or anything, but she said it might bring up some things I want to talk about. Whatever. I guess it kind of makes sense. If nothing else it gives me something to do, and it makes it look like I'm actually listening to her. She’ll probably consider that progress.
“Trace, what the hell are you doing?” The tone in Tycho’s voice made it sound like Trace mus
NaNo '11 Mir - Introduction by onnawufei, literature
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NaNo '11 Mir - Introduction
Trigger warning for mention of child abuse.
My name is Mir Gabriel. I'm a twenty seven year old second grade teacher and I live with my boyfriend Vier Romanov. I have a younger brother named Tycho, and I'm part of a very large family, most of which aren't actually related to one another. I'm pretty sure you've heard about some of them already though. We're all pretty close, so I guess it isn't surprising that our lives end up intertwining quite a bit.
Technically Tycho and I are half brothers with different fathers. When we were children we lived with our mother and our half sister Janna (who also had a different father. Our mother go
NaNo '11 Ka - Introduction by onnawufei, literature
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NaNo '11 Ka - Introduction
My name is Ka Esatia-Elros. I'm twenty seven years old, married to Jordan Elros and mom to Alegria Elros. I only really hyphenated my name because of my job, sort of as a way to placate my bosses. They weren't all that thrilled that I wanted to start a family, but when your father is one of the bigger bosses you can get away with things that other people couldn't. My father is a big enough jerk that I don't feel bad at all for using him a little.
As for my job, I'm a vampire hunter. I'm not going to bother explaining that vampires are real, if you don't believe me now you won't believe me after I've babbled on for a paragraph or two. I
When I was in elementary school we had to do one of those assignments where you and a partner have to be "parents" of an egg for a week. I was excited, I'd seen that sort of thing on TV and had been hoping I'd get to do it, but I was a little less enthused when I was assigned my partner. His name was Michael Nesbitt and he was the smelly kid.
Think back to when you were in elementary school, and the odds are good that the smelly kid was in at least one of your classes. No one ever wants to sit near the smelly kid for obvious reasons, but Michael got the added bonus of being a total and complete jerk. So when he wasn't keeping people away
NaNo '11 Daniel - Parents by onnawufei, literature
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NaNo '11 Daniel - Parents
I am not the kind of person who puts much stock in dreams, but every now and then I'll have one that is so vivid and so real that I don't think I'll ever forget it. In this case it was also completely full of crack and WTFery, which has probably helped it stick in my memory some. I don't usually tell people about my dreams, but what the hell. I've sort of beaten the story of my actual parents to death by now anyway. No pun intended.
Remember, this was all a dream. It was the type where I knew I was dreaming, and was watching everything happen from somewhere above. At least my omniscient self seemed to be as amused at all of this as I w
I've always considered myself to be a girl without any real secrets, at least not since I was sixteen anyway. But the cold hard truth is that I've always known I was lying when I said that. It wasn't that I wanted to deceive people (well I guess I did to a point) but I was just embarrassed. So naturally I've decided to come clean in front of as many people as I can at once. Makes sense, right?
I moved out of my brother's apartment when I was nineteen. Tycho, a family friend had been having a hard time with rent since his brother moved out so we decided I should move into his old room. It meant Tycho had cheaper rent and someone to babb
The first time I ever killed anyone, it was on a whim. I was eighteen years old and no amount of drugs had been able to dull the "head bees" that I had been dealing with for the past three years. I hadn't given up yet though, and was spending the afternoon on the roof of an old apartment building with Jerry, a "friend" of mine who was one of my dealers, smoking pot. We had been sitting around bullshitting for the past hour so he got up to stretch his legs, and walked over to the edge of the building. At the time I didn't even know what had come over me. We hadn't been arguing, and despite being a pothead I didn't even find him overly obn
For my entire life there has been one thing that has remained constant. I have always been afraid of spiders. I know it sounds silly to some people, but spiders are a very common thing to be afraid of and considering some of them are poisonous I think it's a pretty healthy fear. Sure, they may tell you that there are only so many types of poisonous spiders wherever you live, but how does anyone know that? New species are being discovered all the time, how do I know I won't be the one who inadvertently discovers the most poisonous spider in the world? And I'd be dead, so it's not like I would even be around to enjoy having discovered some