Author: ateerablackwood
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Story Scrap: Redemption
Set in a fantasy world, a young woman who had been taken from her family as a young teen and forced into prostitution finally escapes her captors. Injured and disoriented, she collapses in an alleyway and is found by a mercenary-turned-paladin who takes her to his parish to be healed. After the church decides to…
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Story Scrap: Little Red Riding Hood
A boy grows up living in the woods with his mother and woodsman father. His childhood is largely happy, however, he wears a red cloak that he is forbidden from ever taking off for an extended period of time. He has had the cloak since he was a babe and whenever he sleeps, the cloak…
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Story Scrap: The Bookworm and the Boy That Loves Her
A shy, bookworm of a girl practically lives amongst the shelves of her school and local library. She has a crush on the ace of her school and imagines him as one of the heroes in her romance novels. While reading the books in the library, she notices a drawing that keeps on appearing in…
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Nascent
Adj. Definition: beginning to exist or develop Ex. Unknown to her, the tumor was nascent in her body.
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Story Scrap: Home for Supernatural Children
After her parents die in an accident, a young woman must take charge of their private orphanage for supernatural children. The children range from less than a year old to fifteen years old. A vampire, ghost, fairy, and werewolf are just a few of their species.
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Story Scrap: Change Your Parents
You obtain the power to time travel. You go back to the past to prevent/tend to whatever trauma affected your parents’ parenting skills before you were born.
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Lines I Want to Use 6
If it would bring a smile to your face, I would not only be a clown, but the whole dang circus!
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Inveigle
Verb Definition: to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements Ex. The salesman inveigled me into buying more than I had intended. Verb Definition: to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods Ex. The bird inveigled treats from the visitors using its complicated dance.
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Story Scrap: 13 Supernatural Dates
A young woman is looking for love. She goes to a matchmaker (who’s secretly a reformed half-incubus) and goes on 13 dates with men who turn out to be supernatural creatures. For example, she dates a ghost and things end up not working out because she accidentally fulfills his last wish and makes him able…
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Subtle Names Based On Anime Characters Part 6
Here are some character name ideas based on anime characters. These are names that I think are subtle enough that they can be used on non-Japanese characters without a reader realizing that they’re named after an anime character. Some are western names, and others are Japanese but wouldn’t raise too many eyebrows outside of Japanese…
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