Good day.

My name is Jessica, or Whirr, as I am generally known in cyberspace. I'm sixteen and I've been writing for years, but most of the time I'm too self-conscious to let anyone read it. I'm also sort of a perfectionist, so it generally takes me months to upload new chapters. My life goal is to speak four or more languages (I'm nearly halfway there). I want to be a writer or an anthropologist. I work in a book store and I judge people by the books they purchase. Go figure.

I have four 'in-progress' stories at the moment:

The (near) Killing of Mirabel Jones -- I started this many years ago. I think I'm having a break from it at the moment.

Alexa Ackett -- New-ish. About a girl with a slightly scary/dangerous obsession.

Red Dust -- Something I started writing a long time ago, and recently started on again.

Fan -- My newest. The dedication is made in full seriousness. If it's not dedicated to you, you most probably will not understand. You have been forewarned.

I just joined Young Writers 101. Go there.

-Whirr

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1. Girl in the Doorway

Another perspective of Dorianne Laux's poem. -- Some days I wake up in a daze, dizzy, with aching legs, but I am invincible, my room my hideaway. I walk through the house, not yet a teenager, summer sun pulsing onto me.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 255 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-5-08 - Published: 4-5-08

2. Seventeen Seconds reviews

All around me, life went on. The bush moved and sighed with it. And I felt myself move alongside it. I left behind the ebb and sway of the big, weary world that I had known for what felt like so long. I knew that time had very nearly come.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Family/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 590 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-29-08 - Published: 3-29-08

3. A Great War reviews

I crept up the stairs. The old gramophone played Madelon, and the floorboards moved beneath my feet. They were dancing.

Complete - Historical - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,150 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-16-08 - Published: 2-16-08

4. Fan reviews

Kate Ken-ne-dy: n. a certain species of over-obsessive teenage girl. Tom Best: n. her newest victim, and possibly the most serious yet; a seventeen year-old music nerd from the southern outskirts of Sydney; appeared on the 2007 series of Your Star.

Young Adult - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,626 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-15-08 - Published: 2-15-08

5. Alexa Ackett » reviews

Alexa Ackett sat perfectly still, her brown eyes glazed over, fixed on a point in front of her. She was thinking.

General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,473 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-22-07 - Published: 8-2-07

6. The Disappearing Girls

EDNOS.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-17-07 - Published: 8-17-07

7. Red Dust

Fen looked out into the night. She saw things running along the ground. Maybe they were rats. She stared at a particularly big one of these things for a while. It was about as tall as her sister. Very big rat, she thought dreamily.

Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,697 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 8-17-07 - Published: 8-17-07

8. Yesterday's Laughter »

Three women, best friends as children, look back on a shared event during their childhood.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 3 - Words: 3,166 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-23-07 - Published: 7-23-07

9. The near Killing of Mirabel Jones » reviews

“We’ll all be best friends forever, won’t we Bel?” Freda had said to me. “Of course we will,” I had replied. Then Jordan had splashed us some more, for getting too soppy, and we had continued with our frolicking.

Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 5 - Words: 9,264 - Reviews: 33 - Updated: 1-20-07 - Published: 12-3-05

10. Ball Musings reviews

Just four different girls musing over their Deb Ball. Not particularly exciting, but sweet.

Young Adult - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,231 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-6-05 - Published: 8-6-05