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Team Paris - Comedy
Once upon a time there has been a girl called Wendy, who had a magic feather and a clockwork orange.
In her world, the possession of these magical objects made her the It Girl and one of the Chosen Ones.
The hero of our story, Duke Hannibal fell hook line and sinker for Wendy at first sight and he couldn't look away.
Unbeknownst to both of them, the antagonist of our story Dracula, from the Other Family, secretly craved Wendy's magic feather and clockwork orange. He used some potions and pastries to hex the invaluable objects away.
Thankfully, the witches that don't burn from the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, gave Wendy and Hannibal lessons in chemistry, so they could get the magical objects back.
The witches also declared that according to a prophecy, Hannibal is Wendy's Mr Perfect Dragon Warrior and that they both are the legal heirs to the Hawthorne Legacy, which lead to their well-deserved happy ever after.
THE END
Book title's used:
1 Gwendy's Magic Feather
2 A Clockwork Orange
3 The It Girl
4 Chosen Ones
5 Duke
6 Hannibal
7 Hook, Line, and Sinker
8 Can't Look Away
9 Dracula
10 The Other Family
11 Secretly Craved
12 Potions and Pastries
13 Hex
14 These Witches Don't Burn
15 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
16 Lessons in Chemistry
17 Declared
18 Mr. Perfect
19 His Dragon Warrior
20 The Hawthorne Legacy
Team Paris - Tragedy
Once upon a time there has been a King and Queen who loved each other to the end of the Earth and back. There love was shining brightly: if you could see the sun, you could imagine the strength of their feelings for each other.
However, on their wedding day the Three Fates, who who knew how to play the Family Game and thrived on reading people told them that their love was born in death and they have to beware the moon eclipse.
The wife's former, rejected lover, the Sidelined Psycho from the City of Bones could not get over the rejection and was plotting revenge.
He used Firestorm and laid their realm to Ruins.
Too late did the Queen see the lightning in her (magic) mirror or remember the last words the Psycho told her about how he would not let her be happy with another man.
The Psycho turned the Queen into a woman in black and took her prisoner, icebound in the sea of shadows.
The King went insane and kept looking for the lost light of his life in hidden places, constantly repeating: My Wife is missing.
Maybe the Three Fates will relent some time and let them reunite in the Afterlife.
Book titles used:
1 If You Could See the Sun
2 Three Fates
3 The Family Game
4 Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
5 Born in Death
6 Eclipse the Moon
7 Sidelined
8 Psycho
9 City of Bones
10 Firestorm
11 Ruins
12 Lightning in a Mirror
13 The Last Thing He Told Me
14 The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
15 The Prisoner
16 Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
17 Sea of Shadows
18The Light in Hidden Places
19 My Wife is Missing
20 Afterlife
Mod
Four years ago he had been Alone In The Wild, a Bad Situation. He'd been walking and found himself One Foot in the Grave. As A Stranger in the nearby Town he was counted as Guilty by Association. He was Hooked with no thought to Reasonable Doubt.
The Memory Police used his Twisted Loyalties to show How Democracies Die. He would remember the Police Brutality in his interviews until the End of Days.
Cassandra's Tragedy
Books
The Last House on Needless Street
Stay Awake
Hooked
One Foot in the Grave
Hamlet
Alone in the Wild
Guilt by Association
A Stranger in Town
Twisted Loyalties
Haunted
The Deepest of Secrets
The Memory Police
Bullet Train
Reasonable Doubt
Criminal Past
Police Brutality
How Democracies Die
End of Days
Four (Black Hearts 1)
Bad Situation
Mod
CivCEO was at A Carnival of Snackery. It was Midnight at the Electric when he heard CivCEO2 whisper Nothing to See Here. He jumped and tried to use his Rational Faculty.
Instead he saw CivCEO3 tell The Convenience Store Woman that The Best Thing was a Blood Promise. She said Hard Pass and gave the Glare to CivCEO4.
CivCEO was puzzled. What were the Transactional Dynamics between them. He had thought they were Strangers on Board but this seemed more like her Bad Ex-Boyfriend.
CivCEO's bafflement was compete when he saw CivCEO5 shouting Final Orders for Hidden Pictures and CivCEO appearing to buy them.
Where had all his clones appeared from?
Books
A Carnival of Snackery
Nothing to see here
Convenience Store Woman
CivCEO
CivCEO 4
CivCEO 3
CivCEO 2
The Glare
CivCEO 5
CivCEO 6
Transactional Dynamics
The Rational Faculty
Final Orders
Hidden Pictures
Blood Promise
Midnight at the Electric
Hard Pass
The Best Thing
My Bad Ex-Boyfriend
A Stranger On Board
Jason's comedyIris and Ray
Iris was Mostly Harmless. She lived in the town of Pollyanna, and was true to its name. She liked skipping through town barefoot and singing to the donuts in the grocery store, but she was True of Heart, and really, isn’t that all that matters?
Ray was a King of Fools, and sometimes a Queen. They claimed they had been Around the World in Eighty Days on a skateboard, and they were the best friend of The Billionaire’s Familiar. They claimed they were the reason The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared, and it may have been true.
Rumors of Ray infiltrated the town like Starship Troopers. Iris immediately felt Monstrous Affections. Ray’s White Lies did not bother her. She was Eager to make their acquaintance.
Truely, it was Plum Spooky how Undeniable this pair was. Together, they were Gallant. They were perfection.
Everyone started to follow this pair around. They wanted to know how The Crush became such a thing. To Love a Naiad was to love Iris! But the followers could not match up. They were A Little Unsteady. They were no more than a Mummy’s Boy or Lost in Amber.
But no pair could compare! This wacky duo was perfect.
Books:
Iris
Mostly Harmless
Plum Spooky
Pollyanna
Undeniable
Monstrous Affections
Eager
Starship Troopers
Gallant
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared
Around the World in Eighty Days
White Lies
The Billionaire's Familiar
King of Fools
True of Heart
The Crush
To Love a Naiad
A Little Unsteady
Mummy’s Boy
Lost in Amber
Jason's TragedyJack Winter was a proud man. He had followed wealth like an explorer seeking True North. In the Silence in the Library, he Exposed himself to all of the literature and self help books that could get him on the road to riches.
He became a town developer, and squirreled his money away. He preferred people call him doctor however, just because Mr. wouldn’t do.
The only pleasure he took was walking the woods After Dark. Often these were the same woods he would soon develop. He would Hunt the Stars with a Fragile Longing for something more than the money he had.
During his holiday vacation, he traveled to the ocean, but There was Evil by the Sea. Looking at the local papers, he saw that there was A Death in Belmont. There was a Body found in the Garden in the next town over, and a Murder at the Mayfair Hotel. They had all been killed by an archer. It was called the Holiday of Death.
He chalked it up to misfortune. Nothing could harm him.
That night, he walked a trail that did not show up on any map. He heard a calling from deep in the forest. He walked forward, and saw The Girl in the Tower. She seemed trapped, like Rapunzel, but without the hair. He thought for a moment that he might be able to help. He might be The Protector. He could start The Story of a New Name, and become something besides what he was.
But he was to develop these woods. He would need to cut the trees down and destroy the tower.
The girl called out to him, asking for him to save her. She was trapped, maybe she would be the next victim of the local killer. He ignored her, and walked away.
Little did he know that this girl was Only a Monster. Some might say she was a Psycho. She looked for men who were too proud, and hunted them down. She was the murderer.
She followed him into the forest and killed him with The Arrow. Cradle to Grave, she could not abide a conceited man. She said a Prayer for the Dying, and then cursed his pride. He died alone in the woods. This was the story of The Vanishing of Dr. Winter.
After Dark
The Arrow
Hunt the Stars
Only a Monster
Silence in the Library
True North
Exposed
A Death in Belmont
The Protector
Fragile Longing
The Girl in the Tower
Evil by the Sea
Body in the Garden
The Vanishing of Dr. Winter
A Prayer for the Dying
The Story of a New Name
Murder at the Mayfair Hotel
Psycho
Holiday in Death
Cradle to Grave
A Pho Love StoryA romantic comedy by Hector, Tamer of Horses.
On a recent trip to Inverness, I found a lovely little café named “Palmer’s pastries”, and I sat myself down to enjoy a piece of Coconut cake and a Cafe Con Lychee. No sooner had I tucked into the cake, than a handsome man in a kilt sat down beside me. He was the owner’s brother, and lived above the café. We talked, and before I knew it, I’d agreed to dinner at his house that evening.
When evening came, I found myself regarding the doorbell with some trepidation. Should I Surrender to the Highlander? Sure, he could be Boyfriend Material, but he could equally be a Psycho or a Mafia Prince, and I didn’t want to find myself being Hunted in some twisted Highlands version of the Hunger Games. I would be totally Pucked!
Finally I decided to Catch a Tiger by the Tail and listen to The Highlander's Promise, and I rang the doorbell.
“I hope you like Vietnamese,” he said, as he opened the door. I replied it wouldn’t take much Persuasion for me to try it, and in no time I was being Spoon-Fed a delicious dish called Pho.
“I had some wine, but I don’t know where I left it,” he said, and I pondered his Gifts of Imperfection as he tore his place apart looking for The Lost Vintage.
Giving up on the wine, we moved on to dessert. The door opened and Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake through. Our eyes met, The Pillars of the Earth shook, and I suddenly realised I was with The Wrong Highlander!
So I said goodbye to my host, and walked off into the sunset (ok, maybe just the adjoining room) with My Unexpected love, where we lived happily for the rest of my trip.
THE END
Books:
A Pho Love Story
Coconut
Café Con Lychee
Surrender to the Highlander
Boyfriend Material
Psycho
Mafia Prince
Hunted
The Hunger Games
Pucked
Catch a Tiger by the Tail
The Highlander's Promise
Persuasion
Spoon-Fed
The Gifts of Imperfection
The Lost Vintage
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
The Pillars of the Earth
The Wrong Highlander
My Unexpected Love
Mod
A tragic love story by Hector, Breaker of Horses
Until His Last Goodbye, I thought that Ransom was my Ticket to Oblivion. I was no longer afraid. He had A Kiss to Revive Me, to pull me out of my own Shadow's Claim and I swore to myself that The Dark Tide of my Origin would never again turn me into a Watcher in the Shadows but I would step into the light and revel in this beautiful Rae of Hope. I would be part of the fun for a change.
All my Good Intentions were Gone But Not (entirely) Forgotten as I made a Savage Vow that I would I would no longer be Sneaking Around With a heavy and Dark heart. Ransom was ruthless in his pursuit of fun, and he promised me that The Shackles That Hold Us, or rather me, would no longer be, that we could turn into Something Wilder and that I would enjoy the ride.
At the Darkest Hour Before Dawn of what I thought was going to be the best night of my life, I realised that this particular story of my life was not called Stubborn Boys - us against the world and in defiance of everything and everyone - as I had hoped, but total Waste of Handsome.
"I should not have believed him about joyrides being fun", I thought as I stood with my head inside a bin, puking my guts out. Ransom was long gone.
THE END
Books Used:
Until His Last Goodbye
Ransom
A Ticket to Oblivion
A Kiss to Revive Me
Shadow's Claim
The Dark Tide
Origin
The Watcher in the Shadows
Rae of Hope
Good Intentions
Gone But Not Forgotten
Savage Vow
Sneaking Around With #34
When He’s Dark
When He's Ruthless
The Shackles That Hold Us
Something Wilder
Darkest Hour Before Dawn
Stubborn Boys
Waste of Handsome
Circe’s Comedy"Last night, I decided to take a walk downtown to see The Fountains of Silence. The water was dancing to the shimmering lights like The Radium Girls.
Much to my despair I was taken out of The Quiet Zone when I heard a ruckus coming from the movie theatre. Turning the corner I ran straight into Caprice and knocked her flat on her badorkas. ""OUCH!!! What in the blue blazes are you doing?"", she screamed. ""Oh my stars,"" I exclaimed. ""I'm just trying to see what all the commotion is about."" ""It's just Alice and the Mere Mortals having a jam session on Main Street,"" she replied. ""Why do old nosy fuddy duddies, like you, enjoy ruining The Most Fun We Ever Had. "" Excuse me young lady but you're The One that needs an attitude adjustment. Being Witch Slapped may be the dose of medicine you need,"" I replied. ""HMPH! It would be a cold day in,well,you know. Therefore, I'll just say welcome to Our Little World you old hag. Remember, Livvie Owen Lived Here and she'll be back to haunt you,""she snickered.
What? Why is this ungrateful brat bringing up my horrifying past? I really wanted to giver her a piece of my mind but decided It Sounded Better in My Head I couldn't risk giving her the pleasure of digging out The Skeleton in the Closet and telling the whole world that I Kissed Shara Wheeler. What an embarrassment that would be. Shedding The Light in Hidden Places would definitely be the death of me. I would be forced to give my Last Wool and Testament.
I picked up The Screwtape Letters that I was carrying and started walking away while humming The Ballad of Frankie Silver. Upon reflection of this incidence, I realized that these young teeny boppers carry a lot jealousy that they aren't official members of the ""blue haired gang"" aka the Golden Boys. But it's all good. I just need to let her learn the lesson that life doesn't Stay Gold,"
Book Titles
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Our Little World
Mere Mortals
Alice
The One
The Quiet Zone
The Fountains of Silence
The Radium Girls
The Light in Hidden Places
The Screwtape Letters
Caprice
Witch Slapped
Livvie Owen Lived Here
It Sounded Better in My Head
The Skeleton in the Closet
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Last Wool and Testament
Stay Gold
The Ballad of Frankie Silver
Golden Boys
Circe’s TragedyThis Is All Your Fault !!!! It was supposed to be Murder, Plain and Simple not Anatomy of a Murder. Obviously,the protocols given in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder were not followed. If it weren't for that Dumb Witness Allegedly seeing Agatha in the act, the detectives wouldn't be so Ruthless with their questions. It's Unforgivable Agatha was so sloppy. Being so close to Christmas, Agatha will blame her sloppiness on being in a In a Holidaze. According to detective Billy Summers Agatha has a reputation of having The Courage to Be Disliked. In all honesty, that's a good thing because she's blowing Blue Smoke to cover up her foul intentions. Agatha claims she was in the ballroom dancing to Midnight Bayou while the murders were taking place. Liar liar Chasing Fire ! Why would anyone be dancing to that Tadpole Treble song from a game. She knows her goal was To Kill a Kingdom with the arsenal of guns she recently purchased. She crumbled under the pressure and felt the slow burn of the Desert Heat Carrie Soto Is Back on the scene and will eventually get the truth from Agatha. Carrie is particularly interested in who the Body Movers are and how much they were paid. The Evening and the Morning of the following day, Agatha led the detectives to the abandoned warehouses where the dead bodies were stored. Until new information is released--Later Gator!!!
Book Titles
Anatomy of a Murder
Dumb Witness
Murder Plain and Simple
This is All Your Fault
Ruthless
Allegedly
Unforgivable
In a Holidaze
Later
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Midnight Bayou
The Courage to Be Disliked
Billy Summers
Desert Heat
Chasing Fire
Carrie Soto is Back
Blue Smoke
To Kill A Kingdom
Body Movers
The Evening & the Morning
Mod
The Snow Killer was a bad apple, born under the wrong stars to a dirty mother. They had found the Ace of Spades in the Boardwalk Bookstore, and taken it as a sign for them to go on another hard and fast killing spree - having been oxygen deprived at birth, it didn't take much to set the red rising and to reach flash point - no controlled burn for this maniac. Whilst running wild on their fatal voyage, from New York to Dallas, via the stopping places in the greenwood, they came to 16 Lighthouse Road, where they took their weapon - a rusty nail - and killed the widows of Malabar Hill, cackling as another one bites the dust.
Books
Hard and Fast
The Snow Killer
The Stopping Places
Another One Bites the Dust
Rusty Nail
Bad Apple
16 Lighthouse Road
Dirty Mother
Controlled Burn
Running Wild
Oxygen Deprived
Flash Point
The Wrong Stars
Red Rising
The Widows of Malabar Hill
Fatal Voyage
The Boardwalk Bookshop
The Ace of Spades
New York to Dallas
Greenwood
Mod
The sign over the Boardwalk Bookshop said "Home of the Five Little Pigs. This puzzled me, as I thought I was in Galapagos. I went into the shop, seeking answers, but finding instead two kinds of truth: first, the art of racing in the rain and second, not to fear the beard.
The first is not interesting, being a book about Honor's knightly adventures, written by herself; the second I learnt in conversation:
"Welcome to Harmony!" announced the man, possessor of flowing facial hair - my weakness - when I walked in.
"Kiss my putt!" I responded, completely entranced. Suddenly realising what I'd said, I tried to rectify the situation: "Argh, no! I mean, I'm only here for the beard" I blurted, being hypnotised into idiocy by his luxuriant locks. When my brain goes into beard mode, and to be fair, beards are always on my mind, that's when it falls apart - the connection between brain and mouth, I mean, and any old guff spills out.
The beautiful beardy man looked at me puzzled, as well he might.
"Sorry, the beard made me do it!" I tried to explain, digging a deeper hole, "They are like catnip to me! So, errr.... I'll just be going"
He stopped me from retreating, his beard up, waving softly and invitingly in the air-con. "Kiss me, I'm Irish" he commanded. Entranced by the follicular action, I agreed.
Later, before I go to sleep, I sigh to myself so this is love.
Honestly, I'm a fool for the love of a beard!
Books
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Galàpagos
Five Little Pigs
So This is Love
Beard Up
Honor's Knight
Before I Go to Sleep
The Beard Made Me Do It
For the Love of Beard
When it Falls Apart
Kiss Me, I'm Irish
Beard Mode
Kiss My Putt
Welcome to Harmony
Always On My Mind
Fear the Beard
Two Kinds of Truth
The Boardwalk Bookshop
I'm Only Here for the Beard
Written by Herself
Pandora's Comedy It started simply, a nice invitation to meet my cousin Emma’s new groom. I had Grave Reservations about the lack of previous knowledge about a fiancé, but Emma had never lived down the Up the Down Staircase joke, so I decided to give her a break on her wedding. Anyway, I couldn’t talk, as I had the whole The Lost Girl in Paris incident that had made international news. I would like to say that the evidence was only hearsay, some so-called The Last Confessions of Sylvia P., and I was never charged. So, we are a mostly A Nearly Normal Family, and I looked forward to meeting whoever was deemed as good Husband Material for my dear cousin Emma.
Upon arriving at the family farm, Emma told as that she had met him on her last job, which she called, “The Emma Project,” which the rest of us called, “An Affair to Dismember.” Emma was always The Winner in the family business. As she said, “Here Comes My Man,” we turned and looked, I relaxed as he would fit in fine with the family business. Emma’s man was a Mafia Prince. We shook hands all around and took the party outside to The Bone Orchard. He turned and offered a hand to Emma and said, Dance With Me. As they danced under the bleached skulls, I knew Emma had found true love. She was always one of many Book Lovers in the family and used to read books titled, “To Marry a Scottish Laird” alongside her work readings like “An Easy Death.” They had even made lists titled, “Ten Things I Love About You” that included such items that started if One of Us Is Dead. Their marriage will be quite an Escapade and I look forward to the holidays and whoever we decide will be Dying For Christmas.
Pandora's Tragedy Come, let me tell you a story of Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine, a story about how A Quest of Heroes turned to bones and Bitter Blood. They say there is a book, the Doomsday Book and a path to the Rise of Empire and power untold. Ah, you know this part then, I see you claim I lie. You sought this book and found it, venturing Into the Mist and other heroic deeds of the bards’ invention. The Secret History tells a different story than what you Claimed. At Eventide, The Devil and the Dark Water were waiting for you. The Provenance of your power by The Luminous Dead. All the Secrets of the World and the power in your hands for the taking for a simple command, Kill the Queen. They Came From The Ocean, and as The Spear Cuts Through Water, they overwhelmed those on shore. A dead queen I may be but not powerless. For now, now is the Hour of the Witch. Call and Wake the Bones, Call and bid the dead to rise from Hallowed ground and The Host of those who died by your army’s hands. Come, can’t you hear the pounding of their steps.
Mod
Achilles' ComedyTwas TWILIGHT when Susie, THE BOOK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER saw THE GOOD GIRLS playing THE LYING GAME.
I CAN'T LOOK AWAY, said she. GAME ON, said they.
There were THREE SIMPLE RULES to the game
1) Practice causing DAMAGE
2) CRAVE the win
3) GET IN TROUBLE
Beatrice giggled "ALLEGEDLY, I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER."
Betty tittered "I can turn BLOOD TO POISON."
Brenda gloated "I can make a man's temperature rise to DESERT HEAT levels with one kiss."
"What, did you all get an UPGRADE?" snarked Susie.
"Know what time it is, Bee Ladies?" asked Beatrice.
"Wait, you call yourselves Bee Ladies?" sniggered Susie.
"Brenda, call up the winds, Betty, prepare the poison. It is A TIME TO KILL!" THE FIERY CROSS awaits, we will have her TRAPPED!"
"I'm out of here" said Susie. "This is turning into WORLD WAR C. I mean Bee. Well, maybe the C word is more apt.
Someone GO TELL THE BEES I AM GONE.”
Achilles' TragedyIt was a DEATH OVERDUE. ENGLEBY was in a TERMINATION SHOCK over THE 18TH ABDUCTION. The one that marked THE END OF TEMPERANCE DARE, THE QUIET WOMAN.
Engleby's and Temperance's lives had been INTERTWINED.
BOOK LOVERS both, Temperance had just left to return THE LIBRARY BOOK, THEN SHE WAS GONE.
Engleby walked in a daze through the town, by THE SHOP ON BLOSSOM STREET, by a couple having a ROADSIDE PICNIC, and on and on until he saw AT THE EDGE OF THE ORCHARD, TWO DEAD LOVE BIRDS.
His love was one of THE MISSING. He didn't TRUST himself to go on without her. None of the abducted had come home alive. He pictured Temperance's last moments as DEATH WITH INTERRUPTIONS. It was the interruptions that were making him crazy. He couldn't stop picturing what she had gone through. He heard her in his head screaming NEVER LET ME GO.
His own ANNIHILATION was near. It wouldn't be the abductor SURFACING and taking him, it would be his own sorrow that did him in.
Cat wrote: "Pandora's Tragedy is almost blank verse Homer in it's magnificence!"Thank you, I had fun playing with second person
Team Electra - Comedy “Get a Life Chloe Brown!” rang in Chloe’s ears when she woke up on morning. Chloe was An Accidental Goddess who needed to Upgrade her life. She started by learning The Truth About Cowboys. Even though some cowboys were Hot as Sin, they caused very Little Fire in her heart and elsewhere, and she referred to those Six Years as The Complete Debarkle. “Beautiful World, Where are you?” Chloe cried. Full of Valour, Chloe decided to look for her life upgrade among Book Lovers (a wise choice) and took to the road. The Road Trip ended with her finding a group of Book Lovers huddled Under the Dome of an old castle reading 'Mythos: the Greek Myths'. “Trust Me on This,” said Chloe, “This book is all about me, and Never Have I Ever had sex with a swan. Furthermore, “ Chloe continued, “When I fall Hook Line and Sinker for someone, they don’t become all Shadow and Bone because I’m so jealous.” A loud gong rang in Chloe's head and she realized she was not ACCIDENTAL. Poof! She returned to the Eye of the World where she belonged.
Titles Used:
An Accidental Goddess
Upgrade
The Truth About Cowboys
Little Fire
Six years
The Complete Debarkle
Book Lovers
Valour
The Road Trip
Under the Dome
Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
Never Have I Ever
Trust Me On This
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Book Lovers
Hot As Sin
Get A Life Chloe Brown
Hook, Line, and Sinker
Shadow and Bone
The Eye of the World
Team Electra - Tragedy This story is about the mystery of Mrs Christie who used to live alone, though she once was happy with three children. But her daughters did everything that good girls don't and the bitter discord among the reckless girls turned her life into a misery. She reached the point of surrender when the favorite daughter dissappeared. Then one cold day Mrs. Christie too went missing. Everyone knew her happy days to be a long time gone but nobody expected her to suddenly vanish from the town. The police searched her for days and the captain's fury at their faliure to find any trace of her was clearly evident. Days later one evening they noticed a photo of the mother and daughter happily cooking and playing with fire beside the nearby lake in the shadow box of her drawing room and a note stuck under it with the red pyramid shaped magnet saying, 'You are always on my mind. If I can't live with you, I will die for you'. They realized that Mrs Christie lived with a head full of ghosts and the retreat she desparately looked for was in the city of the dead. The police rushed to the lake and after a evening's search they managed to bring up the bodies, of both Mrs Christie and her favorite daughter. With a heavy heart they understood that Mrs Christie needed the end of her to be with the daughter she loved the most.
Titles Used
Alone
The Mystery of Mrs Christie
The Favorite Daughter
Point of Surrender
Misery
A Long Time Gone
Captain's Fury
Bitter Discord
The Red Pyramid
Die For You
The Retreat
A Head Full of Ghosts
City of the Dead
The Shadow Box
Playing With Fire
Always On My Mind
Good Girls Don't
Reckless Girls
Bring Up the Bodies
The End Of Her
Team Agamemnon Comedy - thanks to our author AshleyMeet Bridget Jones and Dakota Dawn, two stepsisters who are Book Lovers! Bridget's dad, known affectionately throughout the neighborhood as the Single Dad Next Door, started dating The It Girl, Dakota's mom. Everything in their lives was "normal" until a stranger appeared in their lives.
Matilda began working as their housekeeper about a year after their parent's marriage, or as Dakota liked to gossip, "Faking It as the Maid", since she always did a terrible job. One afternoon, Bridget noticed Matilda polishing a strange-looking lamp. Once Matilda finished cleaning, Bridget noticed a still very noticeable smudge on the lamp and picked it up and wiped it off. This was enough to engage The Magic of the Lamp and soon a giant phoenix appeared, hovering in midair.
"Hey there, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, the name is Klutz: Phoenix Heat, and I'm here to grant 3 wishes! Tell me all your Pretty Secrets!" the phoenix roared, then promptly tumbled to the ground, no longer floating.
Stunned, Bridget blurted out the only thing that came to mind. She'd been reading a book about werewolves earlier that day called Wolf Pact and decided she'd love to be a werewolf.
"Granted! Until Next Time!" Klutz yelled and disappeared in a wave of water and soaked Bridget instantly.
"What the heck!?" she thought. Confused, and not at all hairy (though strangely smelling of wet dog), Bridget retreated to her room to write about the odd experience in her diary.
Later that day, Dakota felt sneaky and picked up Bridget Jones's Diary and was astonished to read about her stepsister's experience. Hurt that she didn't tell her about it right away, she decided to get Her Revenge! She ran off to find the lamp, rubbed it, and just as before, out popped a giant phoenix.
"Oy! I'm Klutz: Phoenix Secrets, and I'm here to grant 3 wishes!" Klutz attempted to face Dakota but kept spinning as if in a tiny tornado.
Confused, but determined, Dakota said, "Hello Klutz! I'd like to be a Princess!"
"Wish Granted!" Klutz roared and he tumbled in midair.
Suddenly, Dakota found herself trapped in A Court of Wings & Ruin, Guarded by the Soldier of ReDawn. But it wasn't all bad since the inhabitants, frightened by her sudden appearance, instantly worshipped her as a Goddess.
Hours passed and Bridget realized that her sister was missing and decided to ask the phoenix to show her where she was.
After rubbing the lamp, Klutz appeared and yelled, "Oh! Not You Again!"
"Where is my sister?" Bridget demanded.
"Oh, in the Court of Wings and Ruin near The Phantom Tollbooth, probably destroying Her Villians and doing princessy things," Klutz replied, as though it made perfect sense.
"Well, bring her back!" she yelled. "She's not supposed to be a princess!"
"Well, you're not supposed to be a werewolf either, but here we are. If you want me to bring her back, I will have to undo all the magic and no one will be ANYTHING interesting!"
Bridget mulled this over and decided that maybe being a werewolf wasn't the best idea she'd ever had and demanded that Klutz bring her stepsister back.
"Ok, fine, but that's final! Don't bother me again!" Klutz said, wobbling in the air yet again and finally tumbling back into the lamp.
Dakota appeared and Bridget explained what she'd done to get her back. Dakota was a bit annoyed, but was honestly happy to be back.
Books Used:
ReDawn
The Magic of the Lamp
Bridget Jones's Diary
The It Girl
Not You Again
Faking It as the Maid
Klutz: Phoenix Heat
Until Next Time
Pretty Secrets
Single Dad Next Door
Dakota Dawn (Dakota Plains, #1)
Book Lovers
Her Villains
Guarded by the Soldier
Her Revenge
Klutz: Phoenix Secrets
Wolf Pact
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
A Court of Wings And Ruin
The Phantom Tollbooth
Team Agamemnon Tragedy - thanks to our author AshleyIn a world Lost in Time lived a beautiful, but Shattered Princess by the name of Clarissa. Her mother and her sisters, known as the infamous Pretty Dead Queens created a spell called The Virus of Beauty. The Ruthless Queens did not like that Clarissa had such beauty, and sought to destroy it so that she would never find a Prince and take away their throne. The Queens lured Clarissa through The Path of Thorns to The Phantom Tree by the River of Shadows where she noticed Something in the Water, a beautiful rose. Curious, she reached for it and immediately began to transform. "I Must Betray You" the Queen yelled, “for you are too beautiful to exist!” Clarissa managed a last plea, “Please, don’t Break Me!” before she was frozen in stone, sealed with The Magic of Eternity.
The village the Queens ruled over mourned the loss of their beautiful, Missing Clarissa, but no one dared accuse the Queens, though they knew they were Traitors.
Many years passed and ivy grew over the statue of Clarissa and the stone crumbled, until she began to disappear, The Vanishing Half of her face hiding her expression of hopeful, but Fractured Freedom.
One day a handsome Prince came and saw the statue of the Princess. He was so moved by her sad beauty that he asked in the village about the statue. The villagers, fearing the Queens’ wrath, lied and said it was just an old statue with no significance. But the Prince knew the truth, having heard the stories and rumors of the past. The Prince, angry that the villagers had lied, transformed into his real form, a Dreadgod and that's when The Violence began. First, earthquakes shook the ground, and then a fire engulfed the village, slowly spreading to the statue, Igniting Ivy and exposing the crumbling statue. The villagers, fearing their stone Princess would be destroyed began to cry out, "We Were Liars!! Please, don't destroy our beloved Princess Clarissa!" But it did no good and soon the statue was only dust.
Books Used:
The Phantom Tree
The Path of Thorns
Something in the Water
Ruthless
Igniting Ivy
River of Shadows
I Must Betray You
The Violence
Lost in Time
The Vanishing Half
We Were Liars
Fractured Freedom
Dreadgod
Shattered Princess
Pretty Dead Queens
The Virus of Beauty
Break Me
The Magic of Eternity
Missing Clarissa
Traitor
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Books mentioned in this topic
The Secret History (other topics)Into the Mist (other topics)
The Devil and the Dark Water (other topics)
Eventide (other topics)
Claimed (other topics)
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