9th November 2023 Writings

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Excerpt from: Middleton and Bonnie Rockwaller’s Genie
“OK. I was in Study Hall,” Hope said. She wasn’t entirely convincing. “I miss read my timetable.”

Bonnie could tell she was lying, but she saw that Tara believed her. “I suppose so, even though the time table change was 3 weeks ago.”

“Thank you, Bonnie,” Hope said.

“Besides, I have misread my time table many times,” Hope said in support of Tara.

“Thanks, Hope,” Tara said.


They talked for about ten minutes before heading home. Bonnie’s thoughts were full of plans for the months ahead, regarding school and the cheerleading squad. ‘I hope that Possible wouldn’t interfere,’ she thought.


Upon arriving at home she noticed a glint in the grass in her backyard. She went over and picked it up. It was an emerald. “How did we not notice this before?” she asked herself. She took it to her bedroom.

When she had placed the emerald on her bedside table, her phone rang. She quickly forgot about the Emerald as she talked about plans for a party on Friday night.

She didn’t give it more thought until the next morning.


Thursday, February 19, 2004
Bonnie awoke early, from a nightmare. “What a dream!”

Words: 194


Excerpt from: Mystery in the Atlantic
“Hi, Anna,” Pete said.

“Aren’t you on the Council?” Myka asked.

“Yes,” Anna answered. “I also work here. I was on when occurrence happened.”

“So, can you tell us what happened in your words?” Myka asked.

“Certainly,” Anna said.


Earlier
Anna was tired. It had been a long night. But something was about to happen. One of the patrons had brought something in and was showing it to one of his friends. Suddenly there was a flash and the guy went crazy whipping it around like it was some kind of dagger. Then he collapsed.


Present
“That’s what happened,” Anna said.

‘That certainly fits,’ Pete thought.

“So, where is this thing now?” Myka asked.

“It’s in the store room,” Anna answered.

Words: 121


Excerpt from: Spider Quinn
Fortunately, Travis had told SpiderGirl a lot of details, so she didn’t get lost. Following up on his ‘rumors’ was easy. Of course, she was wary in case it was a trap, or if he had misled her.

She found her away to a warehouse on the edge of town. She lowered herself from the roof above some goons guarding an entrance. She realised that she was doing it upside down. ‘Why am I doing it this way?’ she wondered. ‘I’ll figure it out later.’ “Hello! Is the Boss in?” she asked.

The goons brandished some guns, but didn’t otherwise respond.

“I’ll take that as a yes,” SpiderGirl said before disarming them with webs before webbing them up.


“Are you the Boss?” the feminine voice asked.

“Who are you?” the Boss asked.

“I’m the webslinging girl of justice.”

“What?”

“I’m the protector of a suburban town,” she added.

“Which town?”

“I am SpiderGirl and Lawndale is under my protection!”

“Lawndale? I don’t know what you’re talking about,” the Boss said.

“I know you’ve been hiring thieves to steal from stores and houses there,” SpiderGirl said.

The Boss looked around, trying to figure out where her voice was coming from. He grabbed a gun from a drawer.

“Oh no you don’t!” SpiderGirl said and he found himself disarmed by some kind of web.

He looked up and saw a feminine figure wearing some kind of red and blue suit hanging upside down from the ceiling.

“Great! Those reports are true! Some kind of freak, swinging from rooftops.”

“Freak! I’m not a freak!” SpiderGirl said. “I’m a superhero!”


SpiderGirl then webbed up the Boss and removed him from the premises before she set off the fire alarm. She smirked as the sprinklers went into action, soaking all the documents she had strewn about his office. She placed a note next to him, written in a different style to what she had used in Lawndale so far, and then made herself scarce.


Quinn returned to the hall as the party was finishing.

“There you are,” Daria said with a slight tone of worry.

“Sorry, I was looking around the town, you know,” Quinn responded.

“There’s not much to see,” Jane said.

Quinn shrugged.

“Anyway, it appears you Morgendorffer girls can actually get along,” Jane said.

“For brief periods, spaced many days apart,” Daria commented.

“We did make a pretty good team,” Quinn said.

“Maybe you should quit the Fashion Club and we could just go around solving crimes,” Daria suggested.

‘You don’t know the half of it,’ Quinn thought. “But that's what the Fashion Club is all about: solving crimes against fashion.”

“I hope jail wasn't too bad for you,” Daria said to Trent.

“Nah,” Trent said.

“We met the guy who invented punk music and introduced rice to the Japanese,” Nick said.

Daria rolled her eyes.


Soon, they were heading back to Lawndale. Quinn thought about what Daria had said.

“Maybe you should quit the Fashion Club and we could just go around solving crimes.”

‘With the way things are with Sandi, the Fashion Club looks quite rocky,’ she considered. ‘But I don’t think Daria would want to work with SpiderGirl. But I suppose I can work with her as myself.’ But she wasn’t sure.


06 The Lawndale Files
It was Assembly time at Lawndale High. Principal Angela Li came to the podium. “Settle down, young people! Now, before the varsity interpretive dance team begins its performance – ‘History, We Are You’ -- we have a brief announcement from some special guests, agents...”

She was interrupted by the agents. “No names,” the male agent said.

“No credentials,” the female agent added.

“Students, we'll be brief. We've received some disturbing reports from this town, and we're asking for your cooperation.”

“Keep your eyes open. Watch for people who are different. They know who they are.”

“And with your help, kids, so will we.”


Quinn Morgendorffer was concerned. ‘I guess I’ll have to be more careful as SpiderGirl,’ she considered. ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have been in Freemont on the weekend.’ Things in Lawndale were getting worse. ‘Maybe?’


That afternoon Daria and Jane were thinking about the Assembly as they watched television.

“From outer space to in your face! Aliens walk among us! A Sick, Sad World exclusive.”

“Oh, look, they're going to explain the return of disco,” Daria said.

“The aliens aren't coming. They're already here. They could be your friends, your family. They act almost normal, but something's off.”

“Yes, the TV!” Jane said, annoyed. “If there were any aliens smart enough to come here, they wouldn't be stupid enough to come here.”

Words: 769


Excerpt from: The Doctor on the Hunting Ground
They left the park looking for a way down towards the Gut.

“Here we are,” the Doctor said when they came to a Wheel Station.

“An elevator that's like a subway?” Graham asked. “That's smart.”

“A bit difficult to have a bus in this environment,” the Doctor commented.

“True that,” Ryan said.


It didn't take the elevator long to go down. But they weren't yet in the engine district, but in a lower level. “A middle class area,” the Doctor commented. “We need to find another elevator.”

The area wasn't that crowded, but there were people bustling about. “So, the rich people live on the top and the poorer ones down amongst the engines?” Yas asked.

“Yes,” the Doctor answered. “Generally speaking, except in the arctic regions, where it's the other way around.”

“Because it would be easier to pipe the heat?” Ryan asked.

“Yes,” the Doctor answered.

They came to another elevator and went down again.


This time they emerged into an area of crowded corridors which reminded all three of the Doctor's 'fam' of run down areas of Sheffield. “Very familiar,” Ryan commented.

“We're not far now,” the Doctor commented. “It is the lower class people who work in the Gut as they take apart the captured settlements and extract their resources.”

“That'd be obvious,” Ryan said.

“I think we'll see it in action...” the Doctor said as they found another elevator.


Indeed, the city had already captured the smaller town before they arrived in the Gut. Thus they could see the the inhabitants streaming out into the welcoming area.

“Looks like it's one of those more enlightened cities,” the Doctor said.

Words: 274


Total: 1258