Bits & Pieces
these are little stories that i've written for a class i'm currently taking. they're not related to my other stories and are usually purposely short. please enjoy and share your feedback! cover: @firebrick © 2016 Virgo Rose Edwards.
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Of Forests & Clocks & Dreams (A Literary & Art Collection)
[Literary, Short Story, Poems, Art, Philosophy] (In Editing) Strange conversations, ringing phones, umbrellas, talking birds, a girl with a top hat, grandfather clocks, transfigured stones, a missing archaeologist, bowls of rice, a man with twelve toes, and more. His published collection unveils dazzling surreal visio...
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Persephone
A wife goes mad on the night of her marriage and her husband is left alone in an empty house. Filled with despair and longing, he sets out on a dream-filled voyage to find her. This text was written while listening to the first three minutes of Beethoven's Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 - II, Allegretto. In each secti...
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Pride and Prejudice (1813)
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
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The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones
WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-ol...
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Paper Stars
Sara is the temperamental, quick-to-judge daughter of an upstanding Protestant family in the countryside of Cologne. To her, the war has always seemed a far-away nuisance. That is, until a warm night in the summer of 1944, when a jarring dose of reality is dumped upon their doorstep: young, fraught, and Jewish. Enter...
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Here Comes the Sun | ✓
A girl and guy with their own set of complications fall in love when she kisses him in Times Square. Cover: @flieur Trailer: @metropolis- Copyright © 2012 C.
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Hello Gorgeous: An Enzo Origin Story
What do we know about Enzo? He fought in World War II. He was held captive and tortured by the Augustine Society for ten years. He's fiercely loyal, holds grudges, and has a thing for blonds. But that's the Enzo who's been a vampire for . . . we don't even know how long. This is the Enzo from before. NOTE: This was wr...
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The Many Imperfections Of Parker Strange
[on hiatus until further creativity] PARKER STRANGE: Insecure, (recently) single, looks like a puppy who has just been kicked. SAM MCGALIGUR: Ex-girlfriend of Parker Strange, massive tits. Bitch. AERYN CLARKE: Real-life personification of Greek God Narcissus, pink hair, also a bitch (in a good way, though). HENRY KALL...
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After and Before
A journey through the love of a young couple told in reverse – starting from where it all fell apart and ending in where it all began. Copyright © 2014 CrayonChomper cover by lydiarse
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Rosehead
Misunderstood and overmedicated, twelve-year-old Lilith Bloom finds the prospect of a grand family reunion decidedly dull... That is, until she discovers that the rose garden surrounding her grandfather's Berlin mansion is, well, completely and utterly carnivorous. Armed with Panther, her talking pet whippet, and the...
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In 2093 crime rates in America were at 93% and showed no signs of lowering, so Congress decided that the laws had to be started over, and needed a new name—The Society. Every year, all sixteen-year-olds would be given an assigned job, a small apartment, and would be given an independent life. At eighteen, you are alou...
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...
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