The Last Well

The Last Well

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Ari and her family are the only humans in Teardesh, a city inhabited by demons, goblins, and other creatures of the night. Ari does her best to see the night creatures as people although she harbors secret desires to visit the city of humans, Ayradesh, on the other side of the mountains. -------Originally written for my 7th-grade English class, where the teacher pulled me aside and said, "This is the kind of writing that gets published." We didn't manage to get it published but I share it here now, with you. It has been edited from its original form to have a little more plot continuity, and read less like it was written by a middle schooler, enjoy. -------Cover created using Canva, Photograph by Steven Wright on Unsplash…

The Curious Adventure

The Curious Adventure

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Ellowyn and her stepfather, Dr. Edward Von Heikenroter, put the island of Fairburg on the map. Their little shop on Main Street specializing in the creation, and maintenance, of fully functional mechanical limbs, restored the livelihood of war veterans and factory accident survivors alike. But when Everett Greene, owner of a local greenhouse, presents the pair with an artificial limb built with a level of technology far beyond anything they've seen before, Dr. Von Heikenroter disappears. Ellowyn and Everett pick up the trail he left off and discover that under Fairburg's idyllic exterior nothing is as it seems.…