Hello! My name is Mary B, or "Mreeb" as my sister likes to pronounce it. She's not a little kid or anything, we're only two years apart, she's just awesome like that. Anyways, this is my first time using Mreeb as an alias - usually, I use cptgigi, which is my LiveJournal and YouTube name (feel free to follow the links and look me up! Also, feel free to follow me on Twitter). I am eighteen years old and in my first year of university. I am majoring in film and someday will (hopefully) become a writer and director. I love reading, and love writing just as much, if not more. I am in love with television and movies and hope to someday be a writer and director of a television series - that would be ideal. However, I am cool with the indie movie scene. I adore anything created by Joss Whedon, including 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Angel', 'Firefly', and more recently 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog' and 'Dollhouse'. I also recently got into the manga/anime scene and have really been enjoying that. I also love music, and just graduated from a children's choir I've been in for eleven years and have my grade 8 in voice. I love theatre as well, with musical theatre as my forte, and pretty much anything else related to drama, including the technical aspects (mostly stage managing, set design, directing, and such).

Basic run down of my stories:

Lullaby

My first fictionpress story! It's a sci-fi drama that takes place in the future, and will be several volumes long. Each volume is part of the same story, though, so it will all be under the 'Lullaby' title. Currently, only volume 1 (which is nine chapters long) is out. The idea is almost as new as the story, which is unusual for me. I normally go through extensive outlining before I start writing, but this fell together so nicely in my head (there were, and still are, kinks to work out, but they've been manageable) that I started writing only a couple of months after I got the idea and made up the characters. It's rated M (ooooh...) and I try my best to update every Tuesday! I used to update Mondays, but my new schedule at school makes Tuesday a better day for me.

Plot: The year is 1050 AB. The earth is no longer inhabitable by human beings, and so we live in space stations that orbit our former home planet. We are all ruled under one totalitarian regime of the Government for Necessary Guidance of the Banished Peoples. We do well not to oppose them. Guidance has many projects affiliated with her: Project Repopulation, or Repop, wants to get us back to earth; Project Immortality wants us to live forever. The discovery of the soul offers these two projects a means with which to achieve their goals - it also makes their goals conflict. When a class of fifteen year olds are caught in the conflict's crossfire they must find a way to survive and fight back together, even while some of them are pressured to betray.

Aunt Nora's Coffee House

Written in the Frankfurt airport during a five hour layover, it's a one shot short story which the idea for I've had in my head for quite awhile. When I originally thought of it, I was going to make it a play, hence the uninvolved narrator that replaces the audience. I think that medium will suit it much better, so I will probably write a stage adaptation of it...someday...It has absolutely no point or really any depth in it at all. It was fun to write, though. It's rated K+ and is a...comedy?

Plot (there's a plot?!): A cafe employee watches drama unfold at work while a heart broken and slightly suicidal customer is consoled by his friends.

Coming this March (probably)!

To Live working title

I never ever ever write romances. Ever. I'm not a huge fan of the genre (that doesn't mean I dislike it, there are plenty of awesome romance books and movies), much preferring fantasy and sci-fi with romance as a sub-plot and out of the main focus. That said, I have been enjoying writing these sub-plot romances in my own novels, so I decided to give writing an epic romance story a whirl and try my hand at this genre that is unexplored territory for me. Over the course of a day in early October, 2009, I thought up the general outline for my romance novel and have decided to make it my NaNoWriMo novel for the November 2009 round! I totally succeeded in NaNo this year, by the way. Anyways, I am currently in the middle of first draft edits. It's a story of a young woman trying to reunite herself with her lover, and it takes place on a made-up fantasy world of my creation (I love fantasy too much to stray too far from it :D).

Plot: In the mystical kingdom of Rideln there is a small, peaceful farming village called Wellen. Twenty-one year old Teneko has lived there all his life, growing up and eventually falling in love with Nydia, a girl of mysterious origins who loves him in return. When a sudden quest forces Teneko to leave Nydia, he swears that he will return to her without any explanation of just why he has to go. Over a year later, with Teneko not yet returned, Nydia sets out on a quest of her own to discover what has happened to him.