Hi everyone, I'm a pen. Well, technically, a quill. A lovely, peacock quill. At least, I was lovely in my prime. Now, all my emeraldness is faded, and dusty from neglect. When I was new, thn I was handsome.1
I still remember when I was bought, by a lady's maid. I cost 2 shillings, which was quite a lot in those days. I still remember the name of the lady, well I wrote it often enough. Anna Meliamnie. Technically, Lady Annastianna Meliamnie, but for what I was writing, Anna was enough. But I'm getting ahead of myself. You would of thought that if she didn't want anyone to know who was writing, she would have used my name as opposed to the hers. I mean, I'm the one doing all the work, rather than her. But there we go.2
Anyway, I'm surprised that you haven't heard of the Melaimnie's. There have been enough secrets in that family to fill a book. A large book. Especially the exploits of Lady Annastianna Meliamnie. She was the black sheep of a very dark grey family. That was why I was bought. For the love notes, written in the dead of night and sent in secret. Well, it's not as though the rest of the family would take to kindly to Lady Meliamnie falling in love, especially as she was already betrothed, and to the King's younger brother, no less. I disaproved right from the start, almost as much as her father when he found out. 3
But what could I do? What would people think if an invisible hand seemed to have penned a message in the dead of night claiming to be a quill who thought that Lady Meliamnie was in love to a commoner????4
They were discovered, of course. A week before the wedding, Lady Meliamnie was dicovered alone in the presence of a certain pig-herder. The repercussions were terrible. The marriage was cancelled, of course, and Lady Meliamnie disowned. All her things were put into the attac and never talked about. I was put up there as well, and lay forgotton as I gathered dust.5
And my name? Penny, shortened to Pen
Author notes
Not entirly sure that this is quite what you're looking for, hope that it is. But anyway, I like it
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Comments
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i really like this... a little more length and description would have enhanced the already amazing piece, but this was really good. Thanks for entering! 
Silent
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i like the way you write. i never thought about how a pen would feel so uh... well done to you!
~Cat
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glad that yuo like it and tahbks for the applause.
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I love how the quill disapproved of the affair too.
I love that you put how it got its name too
p1 "thn" should be "then"
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thanks for the tip
and also glad that you liked it. Yeah, the bit about 'disembodied hand' was great fun to write about, I was in fits of laughter most of the time
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Very good...
This was very good... precisely what I was looking for. I would have loved for it to have continued... expounded on some of the letters written... gone into the depth of the relationship... the things Penny saw and know... even as Anna was being disowned... (The contest rules were set at a min. of 500ed. but i lowered it to 200 for you... hehe)
Thanks for the entry!
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kk, thats what comes of seeing the beginning of the contest, go really hyper, and enter the contest without actually reading most of the rules
Anyway, glad that you like it, and thanks for the ideas for making it longer, I've kindof wanted to for ages, just didnt have any ideas for making it longer, so yeah, ayt some point I will try to make it longer now, at some point, when I have the time to do it.
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Interesting
This is a really nice, short story. I think there was only one spelling mistake I found and that was 'When I was new, thn I was handsome' This is an unusual object to write about, but it is really true. Bravo! I love it!
Good luck
Lolly xbeginning: 5, language: 3, plot: 3, ending: 3, dialog: 4, characters: 4.
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thankls for the tip, at some point I will get aroubnd to editing it, but at the moment, I'm too busy with work, and other randomness disguised as stories.
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Certainly interesting, writing about a pen. I've never read anything like it and I found it quite funny. Although you could go into a lot more detail about the quill, and the exploits and such.
It just seems too short, and I write a lot of short stories.
Good job though and good luck.
Angel.
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and the ever overused cliche: glad that you liked it
yeah, but seriously, i am glad that you liked it. I kinda see what you mean about it being too short, I get told that a lot by my teachers, my short stories are too short and my long stories too long. Ahh well, life will go on. anyways, thanks for the tips for making it longer, I probably will when I get the time.
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very good
this was very clever, held my interest from start to finish....shows good imagination.........keep it coming
beginning: 4, language: 5, plot: 5, ending: 5, characters: 4.
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Glad that you liked it
Very glad that you liked it, you might also like the milk particles and cereal killer which I have also done, kindof along similar lines.
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This was a very good story written from the point of view of a quill! I loved every little bit of it. A wonderful imagination you have. Who would ever have thought of writing a bout a quill doing something like this. I for one would not have. It was a great story told and the ending a little sad for the quill, and obviously, the quill wasn't happy about being shut away either. Jolly good job.
beginning: 5, language: 5, plot: 5, ending: 5, characters: 5.
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yay
Glad that you enjoyed it, but I have no wacky ideas for anything else to write about, any really obvious common household objects that you can think of that i could use???
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