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Founder: elisefey - Stories: 42 - Followers: 34 - Staff: 4 - id: 43
These are all stories in which the author made a daring choice to attempt something experimental in the writing whether it be perspective, timeline, details, theme, etc. and found the experiment successful in one form or another. Most of these are oneshots. Feel free to discuss the stories or post story suggestions in the Grand Experiment forum.

Impossible Possibilities Optional Prologue by Mr. Aek reviews
This is an optional prologue to explain the situation the narrator starts off in during my novella of the same name. It's not really needed, but adds some background - it also has my authors notes included.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,454 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 2/6/2012 - Complete
Impossible Possibilities by Mr. Aek reviews
You are possible, possibilities, you are everything we are not. You are life, existence, the world, you do, you are, you will be, but us, we are impossible, we are in-life, non-existent, we don't, we are not and never will be. The blindfold stays on.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 5 - Words: 16,001 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 2/10/2012 - Published: 2/1/2012
Comet Shots by Cordria reviews
A series of short stories. Now playing: The Beach. All she wanted was a wedding on the beach, not the loud concoction her parents had created. And certainly she didn't want the horse that ruined her life. Rating: K Genre: Tragedy
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,818 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 7/29/2010 - Published: 7/9/2010 - Complete
A Discovery by MY OLD SHAME reviews
The gates to hell are found outside a small American town.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,996 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7/5/2010 - Complete
Death by the Classics by Gracious Anne reviews
If you could choose the way you die would you? Death has a new office. Drop in and settle your last moments in under an hour.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,333 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/30/2010 - Complete
Professors and Zombies by Alexander D.C reviews
The budget committee at my college recommends that we turn our tenured professors into zombies in order to save cash.
Fiction: Humor - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 508 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 3/2/2010 - Complete
A Love Letter To You by The Rocket Scientist reviews
A letter of a fan to the superstar that she has fallen in love with.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 427 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/28/2008 - Complete
Dreamland by Ajaz reviews
Everyone wants to be famous. Too bad Shelby Crossford took it too far. ONE-SHOT.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 753 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 4 - Published: 4/22/2009 - Complete
Curtains by precipitate reviews
There are things you learn when you watch a person die.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 548 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 5 - Published: 5/18/2009 - Complete
Wordless Horror by precipitate reviews
In which there are no monsters and nobody dies.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,593 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 3 - Published: 12/28/2009 - Complete
The Spider and the Fly by Reversed Polarity reviews
Appearances are deceiving. Words are lies. He's the spider she's the fly. [Oneshot]
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 3 - Published: 4/4/2006 - Complete
james nathan, i have something to say by Dot Cubed reviews
James Nathan broke her heart. In all honesty, Gracie probably should have seen this one coming. -TAKEN DOWN FOR EDITING-
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 21 - Words: 1,276 - Reviews: 311 - Favs: 67 - Follows: 19 - Updated: 12/5/2008 - Published: 12/26/2007 - Complete
Ye Shall Be As Gods by VendettaTheory reviews
Japan has changed, it has changed for the worse. Everyone has forgotten. The subways have forgotten. The people have forgotten. The warrior spirit has been extinguished. But not forever. Japan is sleeping. It needs to be woken up." ONE SHOT
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,543 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/20/2008 - Complete
You, Me, Them, Us by rain-coat reviews
“You don't understand.” It was almost funny how often we threw that word around. I had a feeling we all 'understood' a hell of a lot more than we ever wanted to, and most of it was only just beginning.
Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 26 - Words: 87,530 - Reviews: 44 - Favs: 23 - Follows: 12 - Updated: 9/14/2009 - Published: 8/22/2008 - Complete
Hiding Blood by GrannyP reviews
A secret pregnancy. The unknown father. The real mother. A girl grows up to discover the truth about who she is. A short story in four parts. Inspired by actual events.
Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 5 - Words: 12,434 - Reviews: 34 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 4 - Updated: 3/7/2013 - Published: 8/15/2008 - Complete
Summer of the Japanese Beetles by Adora Akai reviews
warning: story is a hard read. not only written in stream of consciousness, has twist at the end that changes everything you thought you knew. emile is so lonely that she lets audy think she's gay, just so someone will love her. review me, i review you
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,509 - Reviews: 20 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 1 - Published: 12/5/2004
The Last Summer by KnittingKneedle reviews
“Oh it’s real alright,” muttered Jake bitterly. ”And it’ll get realer. Because this is what happens, Owen. Good things always die. Always. Life snuffs them out so we don’t get too complacent, just so we know who’s in charge.”
Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Romance - Chapters: 18 - Words: 57,346 - Reviews: 188 - Favs: 89 - Follows: 29 - Updated: 5/10/2008 - Published: 12/27/2007 - Complete
ever after by ninja.butterfliie reviews
it's about the life in your eyes & the passion of your dance.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,434 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 3 - Published: 10/17/2006 - Complete
The Unseen World by George O' Bradbury reviews
This story portrays the struggles of a student and a professor to discover a world that remains unseen to the human eye...
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 3,935 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 12/13/2007 - Published: 11/23/2007
Third Time's the Charm by Emotionless Crystal reviews
What to do, what to do? The girl you love thinks you love everyone else, so what do you do? Oh, I don't know, tell her? OneShot.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,634 - Reviews: 30 - Favs: 63 - Follows: 3 - Published: 3/16/2007 - Complete
When The Stars Won't Shine by talesoftrepidation reviews
FINISHED. A retelling of the classic tale of Peter Pan and his Wendy. Welcome to Neverland, the beautiful refuge from the ugly past.
Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 14 - Words: 28,854 - Reviews: 88 - Favs: 47 - Follows: 17 - Updated: 8/7/2007 - Published: 6/10/2006 - Complete
Too Cold for March by justcallmefaye reviews
[Aren’t you cold? Out here all the time with no coat. Honestly.] Prequel to And the Cold Drifts Away.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 773 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/25/2007 - Complete
Ordinary by Leonis reviews
There was no question of it. No question of her ever being ordinary.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 751 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7/8/2007 - Complete
This Is Not A Damned Poem by A.K.A. Writer's Block reviews
Life is not a poem. Life is not an essay or a school paper. Life is not meaningless but inspiring words desperately glued to the paper. It is love, fraily pinned there but never leaving. It is not afraid to disturb who we are.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 351 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Published: 6/13/2007 - Complete
Forrester's Fool Proof Guide To Teenage Rebellion by K.B. Hanna reviews
So what? Who cares if I steal pamphlets, mailboxes, and dentures. Nobody. But what they do care about is the fact that I ended up with Track Cambridge’s jockstrap. I mean, some girl offered me fifty bucks if she could smell it.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 13 - Words: 37,077 - Reviews: 129 - Favs: 78 - Follows: 68 - Updated: 6/9/2009 - Published: 9/22/2006
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