Meeting your Nemesis

Winds blew and trees shook while the storm ripped through the urban neighbhood. Houses were visibly damaged and streets signs began to come out of their roots. Waters rushed in from highways right into the center of town. Cars became free floating and the currant picked up. Fires errupted inside homes where stoves and heaters had exploded. The huricane stayed in town for 8 days. 8 was significant for some reason. it seemed to be just one more than nessisary. It was as if the storm was gloating. This storms name was Sheela.

Time, when it plays in the past

What we are trying to convey with this story is how events and their order are meaningless. We want to feel the interweaving story lines as integral to each other while having two distinct morals. When stories are told a majority define progress and plot movement in a forward moving timeline. This will not be the case here.
This entire story has a time line that is backwards,
The plot order: A funeral, wedding, operation, birth, diagnosis, sonogram, what caused the illness(smoking), people conceiving the child, temptation, falling in love. Every other event is the same story line; so in essenace the funeral, operation, diagnosis, enjoying smoking, temptation, meeting are all events to one side of the story; while the wedding, birthm sonogram, conception, falling in love, are all the events to the second half of the story.

WIP

5 story elements, +1

Who: 4 characters; Clive Templar, Margo Maddox, Danny Maddox, Rachel Hutchins
What: Before the story starts there is a love triangle between Clive Margo and Rachel; Rachel likes Clive, Clive likes Margo, Margo had her fiancée killed in a plane crash and is not ready for any relationship. Danny tries to convince Clive to "settle" with Rachel.
Where: The story takes place in Metz, France; a train from Paris to Barcelona, Spain; a plane to Ibiza, Spain; a hospital in Ibiza; the airport in Barcelona
When: Spring 2006
Why: Everyone is a senior in college and they are finishing their senior year with a study abroad program
How: there is an illness that Danny has, that only Margo knows about which is what leads them into many of their 'orny problems

Strangerer Than Fiction

Charlie after figuring out that an author had been shaping the events of his life; convinces himself that he has to meet her. Charlie standing exhausted outside his authors door, hesitantly knocks once. As be starts to turn his back, Harriet opens the door, face-to-face they stand as they both have some sabliminal understanding of each others relivance to each other. Charlie tried to speak but didn’t have the energy to utter anything audible. Harriet stood shocked to see one of her supposed characters standing at her door. Charlie stumbled forward through the doorway and landed his heavy arms on Harriet shoulders. As Harriet caught him they fell backward onto the floor. Charlie, gazing into Harriet’s eyes, couldn’t help but replay the events she had authored in his life that had gone awry over the last several weeks. There was an intimacy that came to both of them as they reflected on their impact on each other’s life. They began to make love on the floor, the door wide open allowed the cat to escape. The next morning they woke up to a new sun. Harriet, curious, goes to her typewriter. As she types she begins to notice things begin to transform around her. She writes Charlie and herself as the King and Queen of Finland…

The Ghost of Spence Cafe

This is a ghostly tale told from the perspective of Dan T, he plays the secondary in charge of a band that always plays at Spence Cafe. Dan hears the shwooshes and howls and knows... ghosts haunt here. Dan was never a sceptic again.HE understood the true power of this holy ghost.

Excerpt from a Soldiers blog:

The rains have taken the summer off again, and the desert winds are no escape from this relentless heat. Skirmishes are daily and our attention to roadside detail has been more than stressful lately. Our crew is now weary of the local challenges. And when help does come; in the form of a local figure head to mend the region, the official is usually targeted by radicals and our job becomes tougher. Communication from the top says our efforts are creating stability but all we see are the slums and the impoverished being taken advantage off, not a good way to bring diplomacy and democracy into a country in my opinion. If there is anything that I have learned about humanity while over here is that the world citizens want peace and this faction of society that wants chaos couldn’t exist without it. Us being here is just fueling this extremism fire.

The Native Love story

In a time before civilizations, before gases started to puncture out of the earth and into the skies. Before water began to homogenize, there was a delicate dance of materials around our Star. Gases and Metals had already collected to their default states and stable positions. While above Earth, the slab of rock that had been ejected from some collision began to take a beating protecting its life providing neighbor from asteroids. However material from other worlds did find their way to our world. As Earth began to cool, Nature began to take form...