So...basically, I'm an editor and a reader who writes on the side. This is my new fictionpress account, because I wanted to start fresh from an old account that had some very stale posts and didn't review much. I've been reading many wonderful stories and am attempting to write reviews for all of them, but this will probably take me a really long time because a) I have read a rather ungodly number of stories, b) I don't write short, pointless reveiws - I actually go in-depth and give comments, praise, and criticism, and c) I feel bad writing reviews for authors that promise to return reviews since the things I had posted were...well, rather sad little tidbits of an actually much-larger story. HOWEVER: If you review me, I will definitely review back.
As a typical overachieving high-schooler, most of my life is eaten up by my omnipresent mountain of homework and my many, many extracurriculars, so writing is (unfortunately) often at the bottom of my to-do list. I am an avid reader, however, and enjoy scrutinizing stories. To all those who I have on my favorites list, I apologize immensely for the current dearth of reviews. I promise to write them ALL for ALL the chapters...eventually.
There's a story that I'd love to put up which I've been co-authoring with my friend (for actually two years now), but, unfortunately, we don't write in chronological order so I have many gaps to fill. At the moment, it's a combination thriller/drama/comedy/political piece/sort of romance/~supernatural (I hesitate to use the term sci-fi or fantasy, because it really isn't either; there are just some supernatural events involved). It's rather amazing, because what started out as several separate stories managed to all get linked in a spurt of random inspiration, so there is now an extremely complex storyline with many subplots that stem off of various distant relations. Connecting stories is fun! Much fun!
A basic plot summary: the main story takes place at a boarding school - a prestigious academy where our main character (for this tale at least) has been sent after unwittingly torching the local grocery store. To flee the paparazzi (who are convinced she's a member of the new pyromaniac, radical political group), her mother sends her off to this new school, where she is friendless and lonely due to her short temper and the dubious events surrounding her arrival. When she wishes for a friend, she ends up with a strange girl who can't seem to breathe...air. Then enter the dark, mysterious new kid, Blake, who's on a mission which, of course, doesn't go as planned. And you can't, Bartholomew Thomas Treesdale: the ever-lovable klutzy cellist who prefers to be addressed by his middle name and who isn't what he seems to be. Also features a wonderful cast of quirky employees for a rather large company (that might also be more), some very unique individual characters, lots of pyros, and lots of fire - oh, yes, the fire...
Just one of many tales about a company that's also a Group that's led by a man who's also a Leader who is a pyro and has an estranged family including a son who is also a pyro and gets sent to a boarding school on a mission where he meets a very unusual girl who is avoiding him like the plague, partially due to her best friend who happens to hate him because she think he's to blame for a terrible crime that was actually commited by his employers and ordered by his father who also has a nephew who gets involved in many messes in foreign cities while looking for his brother with new people including a motherly psychic who has constant fights with the aformentioned Leader who has called in reinforcements including someone often mistaken for a girl whose fiancee is at odds with another loveable pyro whose co-workers include someone who once went to an extremely presitigous instutition where his roommate was expelled and then had a son whose eventual spouse has a best friend whose daughter has her own story involving numerous people with various-colored hair and numerous scars...
It never ends.
Another work in progress is a story I spun out of a real-life experience, which centers around a writer who has just moved to a new (small) town after being in a big city for all her life. I actually have some rather big plot changes to figure out, so I don't want to start posting until I have at least five chapters or so actually typed up. Stay tuned if you like British accents, miscommunication, and story characters developing minds (and lives) of their own.
Be sure to check out my co-author's page: www.fictionpress.com/~twentysixcolours
She has the story "Save Darius" up, which is centered around one of our main characters. Coming soon: Mind the Gap, a Tale of London, with even more of our characters! Read these stories and you might actually start to make sense of the countless allusions I made in the above uber-run-on-sentence.
Thanks for taking the time to pause in my little bit of cyberspace.
Sunni
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