I wrote a story about a girl named Rowan who sees a limping fox outside her house, which disappears. Her friend Meira, discovers her strange power of becoming a fox and has strange visions of a boy. Rowan has similar visions and they discover something very strange. Here, I'll post the first chapter:
CHAPTER 1 - ROWAN
“Death is one’s life multiplied by zero.”
Rowan tossed the little piece of paper to the side and ate the rest of her fortune cookie. She picked out another one from the pile at the center of the table, hoping to read a fortune that wasn’t simply a supposed wise quote applicable to nearly every situation. The waitress took the money Rowan’s dad placed on the receipt and the leftover food to be placed in Styrofoam containers. It was already dark outside and they haven’t even gotten home yet to finish their homework.
“What fortune did you get?” her sixteen-year old brother, Reese, asked her.
“A stupid one,” Rowan replied, handing the little piece of paper to him.
He took it, read it, and threw it elsewhere, dismissing its words as unintelligible nonsense. He slightly smiled. Classic Reese.
The waitress brought back their Styrofoam containers of food and they left the restaurant. It wasn’t far from their house, so the drive there was brief. Their truck stopped right in front of their house. The headlights revealed two scrawny coyotes, unsurprisingly, considering the family lived on a hill. They both fled to some place behind their neighbor’s house, likely to their den or whatever. Rowan and Reese took their backpacks to go inside the house while their dad went to park the truck. Reese walked to the door casually, carrying out his routine. Rowan heard whimpering coming from their neighbor’s side of the fence. She walked to the other side and saw a red fox limping. It left behind a trail of blood from its hind left leg.
“Reese! Reese!” Rowan shouted, “Come look at this!”
“What, what?” he replied, “What did you see?”
Rowan turned her head to see Reese jogging toward her. She pointed her finger in the direction of the fox to discover that the fox, along with any evidence of its existence, disappeared.
“Seriously, Rowan?” Reese replied before muttering, “Frickin’ ret*d.”
Rowan, usually bothered with words like “ret*d”, stood there surprised by what had happened. This phenomenon left her unfocused the entire night.
Further chapters will be posted upon request.
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"Secrets hidden in slivers between bricks." "I wasn't 'they' anymore."
Agree: 4,6,13,16,18,19,20,22,39,41,45: 1 point
Disagree: 1,3,10,11,14,17,27,30,32,36,38,44,47,48,49: 1 point
Score: 26
10 Apr 2011, 4:55 pm
