Written In The Stars

Another addition to the 'It Isn't Magic' series of short stories, about young-adults in a magical town trying to find some sort of meaning in their teenage lives.

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'Written In The Stars' follows Griffith Snow and his cruel life at St. Snow's Republic School for Troubled Male Youths. A year has passed since Jaxson Pheonixson and Breeze Legend, his former roommates and fellow delinquents, got the 'ok' to transfer to Sunny Junior High down the road. Griffith wasn't so lucky. Meanwhile, while his two buddies ride Pegasi into a glittery sunset (or whatever they do at that happy-go-lucky co-ed school), Griff's still stuck at Boys' Republic-and things are about to get a little...complicated.

Sunny Junior High, the glitter-iest, most popular co-ed school in the entire town (and the only co-ed school, to boot) is filled to the brim. Principal Snow's in a panic. Too many students, and not nearly enough space or staff to handle them all. Desperate, he turns to Principal Axel at St. Snow's-which also happens to be Griffith's annoying sap of an uncle. In a single moment, everything changes.

"St. Snow's Republic School for Male Youths...is no longer an all-boys school."

Except...not.

The only girl who agreed to enroll so short-notice at the new school-is gone. Disappeared. Lightning bolt, puff of smoke, all that jazz. And no one knows why. Whichever poor sap manages to find her gets to be her new guard-for-hire.

Guess who gets that lucky title?

Can an Albino Monkey fall in love with a Raven Princess? Rubies, sapphires, white, black-it all turns into the same thing when you have suicidal delinquent princesses, one albino teenage boy, a few jars of stardust, hyperactive twins, some familiar cousins (?), fire-spitting uncles, annoying teleportation, and a million hormonal teenage boys (+ one girl) all rounded up in one school.

Take a visit to St. Snow's Republic School for Troubled Male Youths, and see just how much of an asylum we really are.