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The Serial Effect
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Ongoing, First published Apr 26, 2014
The Serial Effect. Short for the serial position effect, it's the tendency to remember things in the beginning, and the end, while everything in the middle is forgotten.

Like the story. It begins when the girl meets the guy, and ends with either the break-up or make-up. But what about everything else? What about the middle? What about the quiet talks, stolen moments, the pranks, the friends, the bumps in the road, the small moments that make the story theirs. 

Jassilinn Flinn, or Jas, is starting senior year as nothing more than a shadow. Only intent is to survive until she can graduate and start her life for real. Until [insert semi-cliché meeting here], and she rapidly becomes caught trying to handle a shifting social chain, overzealous girls, family, school, future, and everything that comes with high school.

This isn't a story about how the guy gets the girl and they frolic off into the sunset. It's about the guy who finds the strength to let someone in, the girl who never had the courage to take a chance, and what happens when the middle story becomes more important than either the beginning, or the end.

(A/N) The Serial Position Effect is a real psychological term, the definition here is loosely translated, but the idea is the same. 

WARNING, I have no updating schedule because I have lots of school to deal with, along with a part time job, and a variety of other thing. I try to update as often as I can, but sometimes there's not much I can do... Sorry about that.

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