First Draft

This category features first drafts of stories that are still growing!

Picture of A  Day Never to Forget!
Date Added: September 10, 2011
Word Count: 641
 When the tragedy that hit on 9/11/01, a woman goes through the agony of labor giving birth to her twins just as the towers fall. Her husband a local firefighter is not there to share in her joy and happiness. Instead he is out there somewhere risking his life to save that of another. Knowing h...
Current rating is 4.00. Total votes 5.
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Picture of A Strange Day
Date Added: August 22, 2011
Word Count: 61
 I love to write. 
Current rating is 2.33. Total votes 3.
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Picture of A Tragic Story
Date Added: June 15, 2011
Word Count: 259
This is an unfortunate story about a bird who can no longer fly due to a crazy night out with the boys.
Current rating is 2.00. Total votes 1.
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Picture of Arizona Nights Part 2
Date Added: August 11, 2011
Word Count: 603
This is the second of three. But it is about the love of the state where we shared our very first home together. I hope you will vote for me. If you are interested....I have the very first story printed out in a special folder I may try to submit later. Please let me know! :):):) This one is short b...
Current rating is 2.56. Total votes 9.
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Picture of Asuka: The Dream Chronicles
Date Added: May 15, 2012
Word Count: 56.000
 Set entirely in a dream world, A world in which lucid dreamers meet in a mutual dreamscape... This story tells of Asuka, a spirit caught in between lifetimes in some kind of "bardo" which is a plane of existence made purely of the imagination of dreamers. Asuka befriends a dreamer wh...
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Picture of Baby Girl Dot Com
Date Added: October 31, 2011
Word Count: 25,219
This is the ultimate revenge of a young woman who had been raped by her father when she was a young girl. She also starts a revenge for hire business on the internet. This is a rough draft screen play. .
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Picture of Breaking the Hold
Date Added: October 10, 2011
Word Count: 1,298
Megan would do anything to impress Kevin Dane, a fellow high school student that she had fallen in love with. When that "anything" is drugs and cutting, Megan decides she needs to find a way to break the hold.
Current rating is 4.54. Total votes 13.
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Picture of Broadway
Date Added: April 14, 2011
Word Count: 483
 A short story about an actress and her determination to achieve her dream.
Current rating is 4.50. Total votes 4.
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Picture of Broken, But Mending
Date Added: November 8, 2011
Word Count: 440
Greg Daniels has the life, but sometimes you don't get what you want and sometimes you do. Partially based on a true story about a family friend of mine. James Roll October, 2011- November, 2011 May God bless his soul and give peace to his grieving family.
Current rating is 4.13. Total votes 8.
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Picture of Canadaville: The Beginning
Date Added: November 9, 2011
Word Count: 465
New Orleans was missed after going through all the hardship. It was like wishing it was the same before Katrina barreled across the city. With the unkind welcome and the way we was going through everything, nothing felt like home. I'm like a refugee, wandering. It's the strangest feeling. And then o...
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