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CastlesInTheSky

  • Broken - Prologue

    Author's Note: I needed to let this out of my system. It’s the first story I’ve written that’s based on my life. Thanks so much for reading PROLOGUE - Balloon ...

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  • Broken - 1

    This is the second part of a true story. It needs a lot of work. I know I've alternated between past tense in the first part and present tense in ...

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  • Broken - 2

    II - Raindrop She's being followed. She can see them watching her as she walks along the rough cobblestones. She doesn’t want them to turn around; she doesn’t want them ...

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  • Broken - 3

    III - Carnival This is such a big mistake. She cannot believe her mother has brought them here. A blur of coloured Christmas lights arc between the happy faces of ...

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  • Broken - 4

    4 – Fairy Sarah runs back down the frozen gravel path, her heart pounding against the fragile cage of her chest. She cannot hear whether her mother is calling after ...

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  • Broken - 5

    Author's Note: This is quite a short chapter, but I liked it's shortness, and it would have been overdone had I lengthened it. I didn't want to cram too many ...

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  • Broken - 6

    Feedback, please? I really struggled with this chapter so tell me if it's absolutely horrendous and I'll scrap it. 6 A large, crooked Victorian house; three stories high with a ...

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  • Broken - 7

    Okay, the formatting's all messed up, so you're just going to have to imagine spaces in between the different bold and italics paragraphs. Chapter 7 Sarah opens her mouth and ...

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  • Broken - 8

    I'm sorry but this is a terribly written chapter. It's a disgrace so please, please rip it to shreds. 8 - Lies Sarah is more bewildered than anything else as ...

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  • Broken - 9

    Foreword: Just in case you get confused, this particular chapter happens after the prologue, in the chain of events. Chapter 9 She lets go of the balloon. She stands on ...

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  • Broken - 10

    Last chapter - and it's soo cliched! *groans* I need help. _______________________________ 10 – Swallow ‘Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust