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The Sticks | unfinished

Castle Graham would be considered unlucky; if she believed in luck. Her life is kind of a tragedy, though she'd hate to think it was entertaining anyone.
  • The Sticks [Chapter One] - REVISED

    REVISED VERSION: Castle Graham visits a club she used to frequent with her deceased ex, and finds it all a bit too overwhelming

    10 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Two] - REVISED

    REVISED VERSION Castle Graham recounts her first day of year 7, about eight years before the first chapter

    9 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Three] - REVISED

    Back in the present day, Castle is escorted home by a police officer

    8 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Four] - REVISED

    REVISED VERSION: Castle recounts her actual first day in year 7 after being hit by a car, and makes a new friend in the library

    11 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Five] - REVISED

    Castle's flat is full of reminders of her beloved Starry, and so she finds it hard to cope when a mate from uni swings by to check on her

    10 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Six] - REVISED

    Castle and Poet go to the year seven dance together, but it just ends in tears as they realise that it's pretty hard to be yourself these days.

    13 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Seven] - REVISED

    I actually really struggled with what to write in this chapter, so any feedback is appreciated. Castle visits her family's graves.

    9 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Eight] - REVISED

    It's summer, and Castle's baby brothers have been born. She meets a 'work friend' of her dad's, but they seem suspiciously close.

    12 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Nine] - REVISED

    After visiting her family's graves, Castle finds the courage to visit her dad and his boyfriend after months of not talking to them.

    11 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Ten] - REVISED

    REVISED: Back in the past, Castle's family is moving house. She is unsure what to think, as all her memories were made in the old house.

    10 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Eleven] - REVISED

    Castle stayed the night at her dads house, and he offers to help her out with the bills she hasn't paid.

    10 min read
  • The Sticks [Chapter Twelve] - REVISED

    Castle gets sick on Christmas day and learns something unsettling about her mother.

    11 min read


'Hush, hush!' I whispered; 'people can have many cousins and of all sorts, Miss Cathy, without being any the worse for it; only they needn't keep their company, if they be disagreeable and bad.
— Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights