Campnanowrimo Stories

[CAMPNANOWRIMO 2015. VERY ROUGH FIRST DRAFT. EXPECT ERRORS] When eighteen-year old scientist Natalia O’Rourke accepted a mysterious job interview as lab assistant, she wasn’t expecting the top secret facility. Nor the strangeness of her new boss, the enigmatic — not to mention surely mad — Professor Ingvar Alkaev. She definitely wasn’t expecting to find that her new job is what had long been her dream. She had given up on that when her mother had died. Two years down the track, she is a fully fledged scientist in her own right, running her own experiments and research. And this time, nothing was going to stop her, not even the experiment she was running. Known only as experiment 7a10n, he is the oldest experiment made by the professor. Used to perfect the testing procedures, he is now Dr O’Rourke’s charge. But nineteen years of being a test subject has almost broken him. What Natalia expects — a placid, obedient specimen — is not at all what she will get. He has bided his time long enough. With the arrival of the much younger experiment known as 8e11a, the race is on to escape — and do it alive. Highest Ranking: #366 in Science Fiction!

{Written for Camp NaNo July 2019; currently on hiatus} Elizabeth Frankenstein's cousin has mysteriously disappeared. Her attempt to find him leads her to London, where something sinister is lurking. Along the way she meets Thomas Holmwood, who is hiding something in his house; a house where every mirror is covered. (Cover by @lrafael98)

When Tyler Martin's sentence for killing an officer, theft and conspiring against the government is changed from death through experimentation to transforming into an Aitu, he'll do anything to get out of it. He discovers that what he thought to be true isn't. He discovers that he can't trust the people he thought he could. His life is not what it seemed when secrets are revealed. © All Rights Reserved by Harmony'sLoveHP. No part of this story may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the author. This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to real people is merely a coincidence. This work is a work of my imagination. Any similarities to other works of art are coincidental.

Gaara worked hard at putting together the pieces missing since Yashimaru's death, yet soon after becoming the next Kazekage of the village - one of his steps to piece together his life as the village's protector - he discovers a secret which changes everything. Disclaimer - I don't own Naruto. This is written for Open Novella 2020. The story is inspired by prompt number four, "when something tragic happens, it's often said we lose a piece of ourselves. How far would you go to find these lost parts of yourself in order to be whole again?"

The Whiskey Brothers: Book I Willard 'Willie' Whiskey has been in love with Evie for two years but due to the age gap between them he has kept his feelings hidden even going as far as keeping this huge secret from his five brothers. On the night of Evie's 22nd birthday, Willie makes his first move, but his one step forward leads to ten steps back when the next day Evie's father dies on the anniversary of her mothers death. Evie pushes Willie away only for Willie to push himself right back into her life. The back and forth of battling emotions ensues, and Willie learns that sometimes you have to just let go and let fate runs its course. Will Evie stop fighting herself and put her fears aside to let Willie love her unconditionally? Or will she push so far the damage can't even be fixed?

Mary Pyle is a college student from Alabama whose summer vacation took a dark turn when her ex-boyfriend is discovered to be a serial killer and she's believed to be his accomplice. Nate takes Mary with him as he runs across the country to Mexico. Along the way, she digs through their past to find a way to gain her freedom, but as she does so, she quickly realizes that things were not as they had always appeared to be. Her journey with Nate includes knowing when to press him and when to back off as she tries to find his weak spots and her way to her own freedom.

❝The family that lived next door was so weird. Daniel liked to look out his window at night and watch their tall grass and wild brambles sway in the night wind, broken windows dark all the time, except the occasional flare of a cigarette from the second floor bedroom. And, sometimes, the streetlights reflecting off a pair of blue eyes in the livingroom window, still and blinking like a trapped animal.❞ Cover by @-Jewels-

***Now Published! Available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and more!!!*** Lauren Hall has one wish for Christmas this year-raise money to build a new, no-kill animal shelter for the town of Sycamore Cove. And she is prepared to do anything to make it happen. Even dare a man she just met to perform a strip tease for the local knitting society. Gabe Nicholson has one wish too - obtain the job of a lifetime to launch his career. Only his wishes get snowballed when his best friend's little sister hands him a pair of stripper pants and a bottle of eggnog-flavored body oil. It's all sugar plums and mistletoe until a scandal caused by Lauren's fundraiser threatens to ruin it all. With Gabe's work opportunities disappearing before his eyes and Lauren's fundraising efforts tanking, their game of dares stands to burn them both. Unless it ignites a spark of Christmas magic. Excerpt only

The Void Piercer is a deep space exploration ship, its job, to go off the edge of the map. But when they say here there be dragons, they aren't kidding. Ava, an unusual Dryad has left her home world to travel the stars. For someone who grew up in a planet lock society, one light year and a hundred don't sound to different. Now she's going to learn the difference the hardway. Unless of cource she gets killed.

Book 4 of the Mengcheng Dreaming series and Second Camp Nanowrimo Spin-off Looking Back explores the memories of the SwiftyTV crew (Swifty, Jade, PB, Lemmy, Leopold and Bertha) as well as others, set in the past long before the events in the 3rd Mengcheng Dreaming novel "Arctic Dogs: Metamorphoris". The stories will explore how they came to who they were. The stories include: • Jade - Looking Back (Jade on meeting Swifty for the first time during the Great Beidongshan Floods) - FP • PB - Stones (PB's story from being adopted by the orphanage, to the moment he started playing video games and when he got adopted by Swifty's Mum) - FP • Lemmy - Me and My Drum (Lemmy composed a song for the first time during secondary school, for a classmate) - TP • Leopold and Bertha - Over the Sea (The otter twins recounted their days filming their family memories and watched them for one last time before flying to Mengcheng (In script-like form)) - RP • Duke (with Dakota) - Pop/Stars (Duke teamed up with Swifty and competed at their primary school's inter-class football tournament) • Dusty - Mon Alliee (You Are the Best in Me) (Dusty and Jade reconnected with each other in Singapore Polytechnic after the end of the school holidays with a movie date) • Penny - Marte (Penny, along with Swifty and PB, heads to Singapore to her childhood home.) • Swifty - Nandemoniya (Swifty found Jade, now with Dusty as her boyfriend, in a bookstore in Orchard Road).

we're all stuck inside, so let's go on a road trip with bts!

Four Members known as the Folk Legends Guild is all it takes to stop those monstrous villains that lurk inside of fairy tales. It is their mission to defeat the bad guys and save the good ones so they can have their happy ending. Of course, doing this job is harder than it looks. Linda Kemsley soon finds that out when she joins the guild as the fifth member, and her past mistakes that keep mysteriously crawling back into her life aren't doing her any good favors either. Will Linda be able to prove herself to Folk Legends, or will her precedent slip ups ruin the last chance that she has?

Relie has seven days to live. Seven days before she, like every other female in her family before her, is sacrificed to the dragon god. She has seven days to decide her destiny. Seven days to escape her fate. [Cover by @Abyss-of-crazy]

Harley Jenkins is an artist. Well, she tries to be. She also loves Code of Outcasts, the band whose music has helped her through a lot of tough times. Being a tattooed person with dyed hair in a town filled with judgemental people is hard, and the beautiful mix between the music and art is her escape. Code of Outcasts are the biggest band in the world, and Aaron is sick of it. Aaron Lowe, leadsinger in the band, loves the music but is tired of the fame, despite the money raining down, and models hanging off his arm wherever he goes. So he runs away. When Aaron stumbles across some of Harleys art online, and in a spontaneous fit of boredom, decides to start talking to her anonymously, wondering what it would be like to get to know someone who has no idea who he is, friendships are formed. But what will happen when Harley finds out who her friend online really is? And will Aaron be able to see past Harleys imperfect appearance and accept her for who she really is?

Excerpts from my Camp NaNoWriMo July 2016 poetry collection "The Truth of Me."

Abigail Lancaster is gay. She is absolutely certain of it, she is certain she cannot be in her small Christian hometown, and she is determined to change it. When her boyfriend comes with a plan to "cure" her, he ends up hospitalizing Abby, and she develops post-traumatic stress disorder. With now her feelings, social judgment, stress in general, and an anxiety disorder to deal with, Abby is close to breaking down, struggling to keep everything together. Question is if she can. ©2014-2016 xela1234 / Alex Ross All Rights Reserved.