Stories by shadowchild25, by newest first

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  • Joel's Secret
    I wake in terror,1
    by shadowchild25 <100 words, on Oct 25 1:23 AM
  • Liz's Secret
    I know what I'm doing is ruining lives.1
    by shadowchild25 <100 words, on Oct 25 1:08 AM
  • O'Neill's Secret
    I've killed hundreds of men in my life1
    by shadowchild25 <100 words, 1 comment, on Oct 25 1:00 AM
  • Becoming Calypso Chapter 3 (all)
    “I went back to school today,” Katie announced as she wiped an invisible speck of dust off of well shredded jeans. The psychiatrist nodded
    by shadowchild25 5400 words, on Oct 11 2:30 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 9.2
    Nate was watching the news when Callie woke up in the early hours of the morning. “How long was I down for?” she asked before her inner clock told her.1
    by shadowchild25 1800 words, 1 comment, on Oct 1 8:23 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 9.1
    Nate watched the younger girl tenderly as she slept, blonde hair falling across her face and fluttering lightly in the breeze from the partly open window. She’d grown an inch in the month since he’d last seen her, and she lo
    by shadowchild25 1000 words, on Oct 1 8:22 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 9.0
    Katie didn’t pick up the phone the first time it rang. She almost let it go the second time, but she changed her mind at the last second, picking it up on the last ring.1
    by shadowchild25 700 words, on Oct 1 8:20 PM
  • Becoming Calypso 8.2
    Shawn waited until they were out of sight before picking up the phone. “Liz,” he said when the woman picked up. “You owe me an explanation.”1
    by shadowchild25 1600 words, on Oct 1 8:18 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 8.1
    Joel and Maggie had to make up an assignment for biology during the lunch hour. Callie tagged along, munching on some crackers as she walk
    by shadowchild25 1100 words, on Aug 27 9:10 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 8.2
    Shawn waited until they were out of sight before picking up the phone. “Liz,” he said when the woman picked up. “You owe me an explanatio
    by shadowchild25 1600 words, on Aug 27 9:10 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 8.0
    Katie went back up to her room to find Rob pacing it. “They’re having an argument,” Rob told her. “They’re having an argument and the twi
    by shadowchild25 400 words, on Aug 27 9:03 PM
  • Monarchs and Queens
    by shadowchild25 1500 words, 1 comment, on Aug 12 1:26 AM. In Adult, Fantasy
  • Becoming Calypso- Alternate Prologue
    Katie Fenwick had been woken from a dead sleep to the sound of police sirens. The taste of fear had coated the back of her throat when she noticed the eerie dance of red and blue on her walls.1
    by shadowchild25 1700 words, 1 comment, on Jul 8 10:57 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 7.3
    “Meghan,” he said when he got home that night. His oldest sister was lying across the couch, reading a book. “Can I use your laptop?”1
    by shadowchild25 1500 words, 1 comment, on Jul 6 12:10 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 7.2
    She dragged Ezra out of bed to drive her to school early. “I have to meet up with some classmates for a project we’re presenting later. I forgot to mention it last night,” she lied.1
    by shadowchild25 900 words, 1 comment, on Jul 6 12:04 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 7.1
    Callie left for her run at the same hour as always that morning. Nothing indicated that there was anything amiss, though the back of her neck prickled momentarily as she set away from the big brick building that housed her h
    by shadowchild25 700 words, 1 comment, on Jul 5 11:58 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 7.0
    Katie took a deep breath before marching into the kitchen, where Rob and the twins sat eating breakfast and her parents were standing at the counter, reading the mail.1
    by shadowchild25 400 words, 1 comment, on Jul 5 11:56 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 6.2
    Callie met up with Nate after the service ended. He was standing with a bunch of his friends from the choir, but laughed when he saw her. “Callie my dear,” he said, grabbing her up and twirling her around, “you come from a
    by shadowchild25 1500 words, 2 comments, on Jul 5 11:49 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 6.1
    Callie was running home from her usual Sunday morning jog around Teddy Roosevelt Island, making her way back to Key Bridge and D.C. when a
    by shadowchild25 1000 words, 1 comment, on Jul 5 11:48 PM
  • Becoming Calypso- 6.0
    Rob’s face was unreadable as he knocked on the open door of Katie’s room. She glanced up from a picture she was holding, wiping away the t
    by shadowchild25 500 words, 3 comments, on Jul 5 11:36 PM
  • Becoming Calypso: Entry for Best Series
    The chapters in Becoming Calypso are actually divided into smaller segments, ususally four or five parts totalling around 3,000 words.1
    by shadowchild25 100 words, 1 comment, on Jun 30 9:09 AM
  • Counterstrike: Aiden
    My throat was parched, my eyes hurt and I knew that I should have bought sunglasses back at the last gas station. The girl who perched on the Dumpster, catching the sun, laughed at my appearance.1
    by shadowchild25 1600 words, 2 comments, on Jun 20 7:33 PM
  • Alone in a Crowded Room
    Sofia sat, bored, as the other kids ran circles around the house. She was keeping an eye on the youngest, a one year old with a mind of her own who was trying to climb the stairs. The adults were all laughing and chatting.
    by shadowchild25 500 words, 6 comments, on Jun 7 1:30 PM. In Family, Life, Love
  • There Goes My Life
    She took the stage, bowing her head a little and acknowledging the people around her. She hadn’t practiced enough. She’d sound like crap, she’d look like crap on that stage in front of her peers. But it didn’t matter. She
    by shadowchild25 500 words, 4 comments, on Jun 7 3:50 AM
  • Surf Rider
    She was seven, he was eleven, and his grin was lit with mischief. They looked like brother and sister, but their blood was more diluted than that. He held up the green bottle and passed it over.1
    by shadowchild25 1000 words, 3 comments, on Jun 6 1:41 AM
  • Mikey's Little Brother- A children's story
    When Mikey’s mommy said, “what do you want, a brother or sister?” all she got in response was a blank look. How was Mikey supposed to know? He said sister later, because he actually knew that word. TT and Katie were sister
    by shadowchild25 700 words, 4 comments, on Jun 3 12:38 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 5.3
    “Maggie’s a funny person,” he said some time later, as they sat. “She never asked for fame, but she’s had it from her youth. The Gilmore
    by shadowchild25 1200 words, 2 comments, on Jun 3 12:13 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 5.2
    by shadowchild25 700 words, 1 comment, on Jun 3 12:11 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 5.1
    It didn’t take much skill to escape her room. There was a balcony there, and if you swung over it and hung from the railing then slid down
    by shadowchild25 1100 words, 4 comments, on Jun 3 12:09 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 5.0
    Dr. Blaise recognized the set of her patients’ faces when she looked out into the waiting room. Both were twisted with fury, tongues bitte
    by shadowchild25 400 words, 3 comments, on Jun 1 12:56 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 4.4
    Between the silent runner and the sail, it was no wonder her thoughts weren’t on her lunch later that day, when she finally sat down to lun
    by shadowchild25 1900 words, 1 comment, on Jun 1 12:35 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 4.3
    Callie couldn’t get the sail and the questions it had brought with it out of her head. She was glad of that, though. Those questions had
    by shadowchild25 700 words, 3 comments, on Jun 1 12:33 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 4.2
    Sunday dawned bright and clear. The November air was chilly, but the kids felt warm in jeans and sweatshirts.1
    by shadowchild25 1600 words, 1 comment, on Jun 1 12:31 AM
  • Becoming Calypso- 4.1
    “We need to do something fun for our last day with Callie,” Nate decided the last Friday of their two weeks together. He was speaking to T
    by shadowchild25 1000 words, 2 comments, on Jun 1 12:29 AM
  • Becoming Calypso-4.0
    The psychiatrist waited patiently, knowing Katie would begin speaking eventually. Katie mistrusted her doctor, but she always spoke at these appointments. She knew that keeping everything bottled up was not helpful, so she
    by shadowchild25 900 words, 2 comments, on May 27 6:01 PM. In Becoming calypso
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