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Starwake!

Hey, I just got done posting my first short story! It's also a prequel to that one novel I've been talking about my plans for, and starring a younger version of that novel's protagonist, so that's doubly good. This story is a bit of an experiment for me, though. Unlike most of what I've written so far and basically everything I ever plan to write, almost nothing extraordinary or particularly exciting happens. If you stripped away the talking animals and the old timey technology, this would basically be a story where a teenager boards the bus to go to college, chats a little with a stranger, feeds her pet, and contemplates her future plans. I had no idea I even could write a story like this, and I'm not entirely sure if I did it well or not, but it exists.