Note: omggggggggggg yessssssssss I did a collab with da kweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen
lol see my comment for more notesXDD
onto the story, enjoy!!
"There used to be six of us. Now I'm alone."ย
The cold wind whooshed against her ear, battling to fit inside her, a maze of an earlobe.ย
She was tired. Tired of walking. Tired of fighting, she wanted to give up.ย
She kept on walking., step after step. She didn't want to get lost again. She didn't even know what day it was. Lunch could've been dinner, like dinners could've been breakfast.
She just had to get out. She couldn't do it anymore. A crossroad. She heard small muffles of voices from one way, and grunts in the right. The middle was as dark as her hair. She followed the middle.
Bad choice.ย
She was blinded by white light.
Heaven or what?
She thought.
A new place. Time didn't have value here. It was basically as valuable as the crumpled piece of paper you were going to pass to your crush.ย
Swirls. Rhombus. Designs. Zentangles.
She was lost again. She floated around with her thoughts. The hedges grow high and low, as her vision blurred and re-sized. The hedges looked warpy as she fell with a thud. Looked up at the sky and she saw : "Wrong choice sister". She fainted.
Hours later, she stumbled to a somewhat standing position, trying to find her way back.ย
Her mind told her it was night but the sky was deceiving, never settling on a normal color.ย
That was the intention of "The Medics" as they had creatively named themselves.ย
"You are my game-changers.
With myย help we could change the world." She'd always remember that voice. She wished she could scratch it out of her brain with her dirty nails.ย
Coraline.ย
Her sister.ย
Always bossing her around.ย To this day.
No one else interfered with the group's work, fearing the trials โThe Medicsโ went through to test their experiments out.ย
Mary groaned as she forced her feet forward, dragging herself to the nearest base.ย
Which as planned out by The Medics was a lot farther than Mary would have wanted.ย
EVELYN
She trudged step after step. Left, right,ย Left, right. The world was dead.
ย She hadn't eaten in two days. She was scared. And tired.ย
She was sick. After vomiting twice, her immune system needed food. She plucked some blueberries, hoping they weren't poisonous. But with, "The Medics" you couldn't trust them. Like she had trusted the cliff, and she reached to a lower level.
Desperate, but resourceful, she pulled out an eaten piece of gum from her purse.ย Don't look at her like that it was needed..ย
The mint refreshed her teeth while her gums burned. After getting punched by the security,ย they weren't happy to taste a herb. Her mind drifted back a while back. She and Mary, eating Mint chewing gum, and drinking water, as the mint collided with the liquid, feeling a cold sensation down her throat
Tears welled in her eyes, begging to leave her cornea. She allowed them and let them fall. Her heart ached to see Mary again.
***
โThe Medicsโ plan was failing but they persisted.ย
Evelyn knew that, but โThe Medicsโ were not accepting, their vision larger than their brains.ย
Evelyn knew she was not indestructible like โThe Medicsโ hoped her to be.ย
She could feel the pain in her stomach as she scavenged for more than a piece of gum.ย
She could feel their desperation radiating off the virtual walls.ย
No one leaves once youโre in โThe Medicsโ hands. That was easy to know.ย
Evelyn bit her lip and used her ripped sleeve to wipe the tears off her face.ย
She didn't know how long it had been since she was taken from her home.ย
Sent into a lab like some sort of robot.ย
Tests, needles, โThe Medicsโ crowded around her and 5 others. As they pushed her back she recognized them as her friends, including Mary.ย
That didn't make it any better.ย
Evelyn rubbed her eyes, tired of remembering.ย
Tired of the memories that plagued her mind.ย
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MARY
Mary trudged step by step into the darkness. She followed the muffled murmuringย
Kayla.ย
Kayla Whitman.ย
Dead.
Rather, killed.
She didn't know there'd be blood.ย
Her blood splattered all over the bright green hedges, smeared viciously out of carelessness.. Her white gown was covered too. It streaked her once perfect face a deep red, glaring back at Mary with shocked eyes. White foam bubbled out of her once shining lips. They were blue now. She had an injection mark on her shoulder. Cowards.
A tear fell.
Then two.
She wiped her eyes and kept on walking.
Left, then right. She came across the star shaped rock she found. She was going in circles. Her eyes drooped and so did her body.ย
Then she heard footsteps. Light ones. She swooped around hoping to find Logan, one of her friends. But it was Kayla.
She screamed and charged at Mary. Then, just a couple footsteps away, she stopped and sniffed the air like a wolf. Then she screamed and howled and ran the other way. Mary ran as fast as she could.
She screamed, but the device on her lips, which refused to allow her to speak. She had to enter her most loved thing to open it. Kayla must have known hers.
***
Mary stopped and glanced back, Kayla disappearing into the hedges.ย
She doubled over, trying to catch her breath.ย
Her legs ached as she found a steady breathing pace, pressing her knuckles into the muddy ground.ย
Mary wanted to call out, to scream at Coraline, and get her to come and take that stupid thing off her face.ย
But Mary didn't say anything. Not that she could anyways.ย
***
She stood up and rubbed the dirt off her hands, sucking in a sharp breath.ย
Silence fell over the grounds, the wind settling right behind Maryโs ear.ย
She knew she wasn't alone, closing her lips behind the device.ย
Mary went through people in her head, who was left in the experiment.ย
As she went through, Mary was surprised at the numbers.ย
It had to have been at least a month since it started and only Kayla had been ticked off as far as she knew.ย
But Mary did not completely trust her information.ย
Whoever the leader was, she was never fully loyal to anyone, The Medics included in that.ย
***ย
Mary took a sharp left, as the heat hit her like a brick. She was surprised. The while area was chilly, but over here it was humid.ย
Was she near a vent?
She walked closer and closer, as she saw a boy. Curly hair, glasses, and a toothy smile. But this time, the smile was not present. Instead, was a terrified Joshua.ย
Mary ran as fast as her dehydrated legs took her, and hugged him as hard she could.
Joshua stayed stiff in Maryโs hug, his arms pressed to his side.ย
Mary broke away, and looked him up and down.ย
She wanted to ask him something but it was no use. Nothing would come out of either of their mouth pieces.ย
Mary watched as Joshua staggered backwards gripping on to the watch strapped to his wrist.ย
Mary quickly realized it was the watch she had given him for his birthday two weeks before The Medics took them.ย
Joshua froze as he followed Maryโs gaze down to his bony wrists.ย
He glanced up, his brown eyes filled with the same fear they were months ago.ย
Even in the dark Mary could make out scrambling figures beside her.ย
Someone grabbed her wrist and shoved her into the truck, pushing her down as she got in.ย
She squeezed her eyes shut, her mind clouded with fear.ย
The moon was completely gone as more people were shoved next to her.ย
Mary leaned her head back and tucked her knees into her chest, resisting the urge to call out.ย
A loud noise rumbled and the truck started driving away.ย
As they ran over bumps in the path Mary dared to open her eyes.ย
The world was spinning and she was shrinking in her spot.
Her hope shrinking along with her.ย
Joshua reached for Maryโs hand, pulling her out of her daze.ย
Mary looked up and cocked her head slightly.ย
That was when she noticed Joshuaโs shaking hands letting go of hers and reaching for the watch on his wrist.ย
Everything came to a stop as Joshua unhooked the watch and threw it away, kicking it behind him.ย
Mary opened her mouth to shout, hot tears streaming down her face.ย
She watched in disbelief as he pulled the mouthpiece off his face and met her eyes.ย
Maryโs mind clicked the pieces together as darkness fell upon the ground.
Joshua had thrown away the thing he loved most.
JOSHUA
I thought she knew. Well, she was always oblivious. I didn't expect her to either.ย
I picked up her watch and thrust it away. Tears welled in her eyes. I feel guilty now. Tears streamed down the cheeks I'd once wanted to kiss.ย
Her hair ruffled and looked dirty. The same hair I'd wanted to caress with love.ย ย
Her mouth opened but the mouthpiece stopped it. It'd been a minute since I threw my most beloved object. I could speak now.
"I lov-"ย
But something grabbed me from behind as I saw angry tears flow down her beautiful cheeks.ย
Bony fingers grabbed me and something sharp bit me in the side of my neck.
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Heyaaa! Hru?? Can we do a upvote for upvote? A downvoter tooken my points from 2,246 to 888.
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freaking downvoter. You dont even have to upvote me back. I'll just do it cuz I hate these downvoters. Sorry that happened:(
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NO I WILL UPVOTE YOU BACK YOUR AT 800 TOO!!!!
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YOU'RE TOO NICE<333 THANK YOU SO MUCH<333
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Also if you see like 4 accounts following you, those are my alts.
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lol okXDD also you dont have to keep upvotingggg you're already being too nice as isssss<3333
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jeez you have a lot of accountsXDD
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oooh okXDD I mean...we introduced that she was Mary's sister and part of The Medics. wait wait wait, so this is Coraline telling the story a bunch of years later orrrrr?
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Yassss
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Hi!!!! I like your new pfp, it gives off a cool ViBeEe XD
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aww thanks!! XD
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:D do you like the new prompts? I'm trying to get an idea-
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I'm not quite sureXD I honestly dont think my brain is working anymore cuz I'm so tiredXDDD
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yea '-' I have a vague idea of what I'm gonna do, but since I'm on spring break I don't have to rush and do it in 2 days :)
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oooh yay, that's great!! I'll brb on here and the doc, realized I have a school assignment due in like an hourXD
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hi Luna!!
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hi!
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how are ya? w r i t i n g :)
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I'm good! hbu? yay!!:D
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I'm good (which means it's warm and I'm writing and I have food :]) that was long XD
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yessss that's like THE BESTTTTTTT
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COLLAB WITH DA KWEEN YOKIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE anyway- notes! 1. as I've said like 80 times, I collabed with Sia!! Here's her account link: https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/6a2439/ she's absolutely amazingggggg 2. we're hoping to make a part 2, so you dont have to sit with that cliffhanger forever, dont worry we're not ~that~ mean;) 3. as always I appreciate any and all critiques! Thanks for readingggg<33 I dont rly have that many notes, so one last thing THANK YOU SIA FOR COLLABING WIF MEEEEEEEEEEEE
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AWWWWWWWWWWW AAAAWWWWWWWIEEEEE EHEHEH WELCOMEEEEEEEE!!!!!! IM XDDDD I LOVE THE REACTION TO THE CLIFFHANGERSSSSS
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I'm so sorry, but I'm at 300.
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no need to apologize!! I think a comment I left a few minutes ago might've gotten lost in your notifs so I'm gonna paste it here: NooOoOoOoOoOooOoOoO you were almost at 2,000 again but the freaking downvoters caught up to me. I'm so so so so so sorry this is happening to you Blxxii. You are such a kind and amazing person and that number doesnt define you nor your writing. Remember that ok? Also I'm running out of comments to upvote, so when you see this would you mind spamming?<3
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Sure! How much do you want me to spam?
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Since I'm spamming, your spamming. So get on with the 700 comments.
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YOU ARE THE BEST
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YOU ARE THE BEST
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Here's mah spam btw:
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Luna is amazing and you need to spam 700 comments so I can get you to 2k
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Luna is amazing and you need to spam 700 comments so I can get you to 2k
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Luna is amazing and you need to spam 700 comments so I can get you to 2k
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Awww thank youu <333
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The cliffhanger is killing meeeeeeeeeeee! This was so good Luna! You're an incredible writer.
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Thank you so much Keya!!
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:O :O >:O :O What just happened over here- So, I have many things to say (when do I not XD) 1. THAT CLIFFHANGER- 2. Why ya hafta make Joshua meet Mary at the END?! 3. :O 4. :O 5. >:O 6. :O 7. wHyYyYyY This was so good, it's kinda sci-fi and (VERY) sad. Great job of merging the two together :) I LOVED THISSSSSS ~ Amethyst
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1. ehehehehe I feel evilllllllllll 2. hehe:) XDDDD eek yay!! That's what we were going for!! so glad you liked ittttttttttt
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wHyYyYyY :DDDD I don't know how people write like this beautifully and then there's me who writes about lollipop birds-
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Wow! This a great story! So suspenseful, and I love the two points of view! I just posted a new story. I was wondering if I could get some feedback?
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Thank you!! I will try when I get a free moment!
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LULU REPLY ASAP ARE YOU OKAY?
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I THINK I AM NOW
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WHAT HAPPENED? AAAAAAAAAA
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lol nothing rly happened ig...idk there's just a lot going on and I kinda got trapped in my head. But I got some help and now I'm working on digging myself out:)
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WRIOGHNRWIGKWRNGIWRNGWRJIGKWNGWJRNWLRJGKWRHLR I wish I could've been there- I'm so sorry :( Are you okay right now? Is there anything I can do? I hope things get better for you :(
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no, dont be sorry!! I have a way of hiding things and it's easier online, so when approached with questions asking if I was ok, the easier answer was to say I was good or fine. I'm having a better week this week, and I'm on spring break so the stress of school has been lifted off my shoulders for a few days:) And the support/messages you, Sia, and Ame have sent me in the last hour have made things even better:D thanks for caring Saph<33333 hbu you doin alright?
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Luna! 1. A NOVEL OMLLLLLL 2. pleaseeeee don't feel like your unworthy, U ARE <33333
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Ame! 1. eheh maybeeeeee 2. tank youuuuuuuuu<3333 gagh I love my friendsssssssssssss<333333 3. how ya doin? 4. what do you think of the new prompts?
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1. :D Saph said she already gave you a sentence and you love it lol~ 2. :DDDDDDDDDD you deserve itttttttt 3. SpLeNdId lol, wbu? 4. ehhhhh they're oKaY, the only one I like is the pixie/god one
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1. omg yes and I need a full product for my b-dayXD 2. <333 3. I'm pretty good!! 4. Yeah, I dont especially like holiday related prompts...they just feel a liiiiiiiitle restricting, ya know?
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1. XD 2. :] 3. yayyyyyy 4. yeah, but mostly because these ones are super specific lol, so I'm not writing a story this week :P
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yea they are pretty specific. I was trying to write a story this week and it might end up being one of those last minute stories where I post it at midnightXD
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If you made it down here, I'm sorry. I'm sorry you had to scroll so far down to get here. I'm sorry my stories suck. I'm sorry I cant give good pep talks. I'm sorry for liking your story and not giving feedback or even commenting. I'm sorry for forgetting to read you story. I'm sorry for never responding to your comment. I'm sorry I didn't upvote you to the number you deserve. I'm sorry I failed to give you inspiring words when you needed them. I'm sorry I failed to be there for you when you needed me. I'm sorry I forgot about you. I'm sorry...
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ah shoot you found it:( Idk if I can remove my shit tho I just feel like I havent been...idk me lately ig arent u tireddd???
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Of course I did. Many ppl saw it but they didnt have the courage to tell you. I'm telling you. No. Stop. You. Are Enough. Talk to me. Talk to Saph. Please , no. I wasn't myself for 6 months and no one noticed. Take to me. And, remove shit . I feel you.
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Thanks Sia<3 I'll remove it, and I'll work on...idk me ig I'm sorry you had to go through it, since it makes you feel kinda shitty:/ Thanks for caring:) <3 and go get some sleep!!!
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:) Good. Nopee. You dont need to ~work~ on you. You need me time. I ~am shitty~ so r u. So is saph, our teachers, all humans r shitty. We all,are :) And, stop apologising so much lol Listen to these songs today Lovely Bellyache Bury a friend Roar Unstoppable Boss b*
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you're so wiseee that's an interesting way to look at it, and i like it! oops- didnt even notice thatXD ooooo ok!! will do:D
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Dear hooman, Heylooooo! As the Downvoting Police, Iโve gotta ask: Have you been downvoting recently/would you like me to upvote you a lil? (Thereโs way too many kind people who refuse to be upvoting, but frrr, if youโve been stripped of your well-earned points, YOUโD BETTER TELL ME MISSY) Love, Random Upvoting Girl Whoโs Going Around Spamming This Message Even Tho Iโm In School
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Hi hooman, I dont know if I would count them as "well-earned points" because I myself have horribly low self esteem, and I would rather you upvote someone else. I only lost 2,000 something points while people like Aerin(downvoted over 30,000), Isaac Aaron(over 3,000), Amethyst(over 4,000), and Sapphire(around 5,000) got downvoted a lot more than me. If you have time I'd rather you upvote others than me:) This is a nice thing to do and thanks for offering<3 Love, The Girl Who Should Be Paying Attention To Her History Teacher But Finds Ree...
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Dear hooman, AHEM?! 2000?!?! Youโre gonna be upvoting and you canโt do nothinโ about it, missy *stern face*. But yea, Iโll gladly upvote (or upvote again) those people, thank you! <3 Love, The Girl Who Completely Agrees and Now Needs to Get To Art Class
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hello again hooman, sjlgjhkd- compared to others it's not dat much...but ok *shrinks in shame* thanks for that<3 and thank youuuuu!!! Love, The Girl Who Will Be Back In A Few Minutes After She Stops Panicking About The Test She's About To Take
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Henlo me fellow hooman, My pleasureeeeee!!! <3 Love, The Girl Who Wishes Good Luck to Da Other Girl As She Continues to Scroll Reedsy Because Her H Block (Art) Class Still Hasnโt Started Yet (Or Maybe More WiFi Problems)
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ello hooman, hehe<3 it's fun to talk dis wayXDD Love, The Girl Who Thanks Da Other Girl For Wishing Her Good Luck As She Continues To Feed Her Reedsy Addiction
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Hello. I agree about your bio. I can't do this anymore. The downvoters are being really mean, and even if we ignore the points, they're gonna keep doing it and more and more friends are gonna leave. Please don't leave, you are on my growing list of people I would cry about if you left. I started a hashtag for this: #StopDownvotingNow Share it to ten friends!
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Aw Emerald this message is so sweetโค๏ธ I donโt plan on leaving any time soon and once I get home from school Iโll share the hashtags๐
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Okay! Everyone seemed kinda sad and people were leaving, so I spoke up
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And I thank you so much for doing that<33
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Tell everyone this message! If you leave, leave up your stories. Many people think they're great. Keep the up. If you're gone, don't remove your comments. Others might hear your voice in them, and it's not like you'll get downvoted if you aren't there anymore. Keep your stories up. We need more joy and you can spread it. Seriously, so many people got rid of their stuff! I can't find my faves anymorrrrrre!
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will do! I'll stick it in my bio:)
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hi! how's your story going?
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hmm it's ok, kinda slow cuz I've been busy, but hopefully I'll finish:D you working on any stories? Or your painting?
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Hello!! Will you help us get rid of downvoting? Click here to sign our petition!! :) http://chng.it/Y8pTpNJG
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just signed it:)
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Awesome! Thank you so much!!!!
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yep!<3
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The german?
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yayyyy!! Nice job Celeste!! I'll add you to the list:D
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YAYYY
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what do you think of this weeks' prompts? I LOVE THEM!
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I think I like them!!!:D
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me too :)))) how have you been?
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ok, hbu? Got anythin fun going on this weekend?
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hmm...not unless you count yard work as fun XDDD hbu?
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lolXD fingers crossed the weather is ok for that! I have a gymnastics meet tomorrow, but I think that's it! Speaking of tomorrow, it just hit midnight for me, so I should go to bedXD sorry!!!!!:(
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Sorry, had to start a new thread :) I like rainbow because all of the colors look good together, I can't chose just one :)
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oooh! rainbow is rly prettyyyy! what's your favorite time in the day to write?
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hm...mostly afternoon/evening. hbu?
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I think rly late at night bcuz I seem to get super productive around 10XD
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HAI LUNA! My Reedsy Cast story is out, and you're in it, please check it out when you're free. Alsoooo to answer ur question, my favourite fairytale is Death's Messenger by the Grimm Brothers :D
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Omg cant wait! I'm about to join a meeting but I'll read it after! Oooh I love that one:D
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Awesome, thank you so much!
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