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[image description: a marble staircase in a grand hallway with brown tones and a general dark academia vibe. there’s a chandelier and a painting on the wall. serif font that reads: the house with crooked pantings. camp nano 2021. end id.]

DISCLAIMER: this is my original work that i have chosen to share on this platform. plagiarism in any form will NOT be tolerated. 

Okay hi everyone new WIP!! Yay camp!! This is one of three short stories I’m hoping to complete in April, and is a part of my untitled short story collection including Death Wears Daisy-Chains and The Ribs of Saint Anthony. 

WHO: Augustina, Freddie, Aunt Mags

WHAT: A teenage girl and her cousin reflect on their very different relationships with their grandmother after her funeral. It gets very dramatic & very traumatic.

WHERE: Their deceased grandmother’s house

WHEN: mid-century America, like 1940s to 1960s ish. 

POV: probably third person limited we’ll find out when we get there

STATUS: planning/outlining

WORD COUNT GOAL: 3,000

THEMES: difficult family relationships, suppressed trauma, art appreciation, jealousy, 

AESTHETIC: old mansions with marble staircases, the renaissance section of an art museum, rainy days, wearing fancy dresses with stockings and no shoes, playing a grand piano, elaborate frames, candelabras, taking walks when you can’t sleep

Let’s break down these characters! 

AUGUSTINA

-19

-raised by her grandmother, aka Auntie Mags

-suppresses everything and keeps it all to herself

-refuses to see the bad in people

-impeccable fashion sense

FREDDIE

-21

-also raised by Auntie Mags, in part

-keeps absolutely nothing to himself

-he gets mad about things a lot but only cause he cares and he hates things that aren’t fair

-really likes art history

AUNTIE MAGS

-dead

-totally sucks

-i hate her and so does freddie

-augustina’s indifferent though (that is, indeed, the main source of conflict)

WHEE i’m really excited to write this Augustina and Freddie have a great dynamic and the aesthetic of the house and setting is absolutely beautiful. The Ribs of Saint Anthony did a LOT in helping me with descriptive imagery, but I so prefer writing nature imagery. This story is entirely set on one staircase so that'll be a challenge and I’m very excited. 

Intros for the other two stories coming later this month!

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[image description: a white suburban house with blue shutters and a white picket fence surrounded by trees. it sits on the corner of two streets. serif font that reads: five variations on the blue house on the corner. camp nano 2021. end id]

DISCLAIMER: this is my original work that i have chosen to share on this platform. plagiarism in any form will NOT be tolerated.

hi guys!! i have a new short story wip for camp!! yayyy!!

to refresh, for camp nano 2021 my goal is to draft three short stories. 

(one of those is the house with crooked paintings)

so here is the second one!

WHO: Kate, Maggie, Johnnie, Marilyn, and Jo

WHAT: a family explores love, loss, and identity over five generations. it’s told through vignettes of a moment in each woman’s life, all at the age of 16, where they have some sort of revelation or moment where their family’s trauma bleeds through.

WHEN: 1912, 1937, 1965, 1989, and 2006

WHERE: suburban somewhere, heavily implied to be new york

WORD COUNT GOAL: it’s either gonna be crazy long or crazy short. might be 8,000, might be 3,000, who knows.

so let’s meet these characters!

KATE (1912)

-newly american and washing dishes at some awful restaurant

-she meets a boy who helps her feel less homesick and they talk about missing their families together while they wash dishes. v therapeutic for both of them

-timid, shy, family-oriented, takes shit as it comes and never does anything about it, but very sweet

MAGGIE (1937)

-kate’s daughter

-she’s her mother’s opposite; she’s bold and will flirt with anything that gives her a second glance

-a little too prideful

JOHNNIE (1965)

-maggie’s daughter

-stubborn as a mule and twice as clever

-did i say stubborn? she’s so stubborn

-her knees and socks are perpetually grass-stained

MARILYN (1989)

-johnnie’s daughter

-she just isn’t sure of herself yet and she’s trying to find it

-she finds it the wrong way

-also very family oriented and much too loyal. she has a tiny circle and she sticks with them instead of branching out

JO (2006)

-marilyn’s daughter

-she’s timid like her mother, but once you really warm her up she’s much  more like johnnie. she’s funny and independent and refuses to make the same mistakes her mother did. 

super dynamic characters with super dynamic relationships. i’m still only 99% sold on it because it’s really not as sad as the majority of my other works, and i have a few concerns but they’ll iron out in the drafting stage i’m sure.

yay that’s five variations on the blue house on the corner! keep your eyes peeled for the third short story intro later this month ;)

general taglist (send an ask to be added)

@alicewestwater​ @august-iswriting​ @lottieiswriting​ @chloeswords​ @writing-in-liminal-spaces​ @phiwrites​ @jennawritesstories​ @smalltownwriter​

reminder that i don’t keep separate taglists for separate wips, i only have a general taglist :)

Stickers inspired by my short story collection Tales of Gilamoore! You can read it on my Wattpad at Cosmic0Writings. If you do read it, let me know what you think! I love receiving feedback on my art and writing :)

Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination - a book review

i would like to say, before anything, that this is my favourite book of all time possibly and that this review isn’t long because it’s spoiler-free

i adore edogawa ranpo's writing. i honestly thought that i might be disappointed by his writing as i had really high expectations for it, but it surpassed my expectations. how he creates his mysteries and how he describes everything in such vivid detail that you can see it clearly in your mind's eye is just beautiful. this collection was spectacular and i really liked it. my favourite would have to be the cliff, or the psychological test. i suppose the caterpillar could also be counted as a favourite of mine, though if it was more intense, i could've easily had nightmares. i could explain why i liked those specific stories, but it would spoil them and i'd honestly hate to do that to someone. i think that it would make a lot of sense why i like these ones if someone knew what they're about. either way, i loved this book and i cannot wait to find more of his writing to read.