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Jerry Newington is having trouble fitting into his new school. No-one is in a rush to extend the hand of friendship, the school bully has him in his sights, and worst of all he has fallen for a girl in his year who doesn’t seem to know he exists.
When the school year ends badly, Jerry is offered the chance to go stay with his Aunt for a few weeks. On the train he meets a girl who’s pretty and fun to be with and they decide to spend some time together, but Jerry can’t forget the girl he left behind.
His new friend is disappointed but offers him a gift. It is unusual, special and has consequences neither of them could possibly expect. Whatever the outcome, this is a summer they will both remember.
I started this as an entry for the Summer Romance 2010 competition, but it didn't want to stop being written and the deadline passed. I am thinking of making it available on Lulu if enough of you think that would be worthwhile...
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Summerswitch
I say do it! Ask Erin, too1
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
It sounds most interesting.
It sounds most interesting. Would it make a good Hatbox story?
Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue
Please don't be a tease. I
Please don't be a tease. I think it's not right to allow a posting to appear on the front page, unless there is really something to read, for pay or for free. I believe posting a question like this to the front page, making it look like a story, is deceitful.
Next time you consider doing this, think about reader expectations. Either post your story, or make it available for sale and post the link.
Don't promote what is essentially a blog to the front page.
Melanie
To fast.
It is Fryday afternoon here in Alaska and I am reading chapter 5 of your wonderfull story. I have not finished it yet but I wanted to write this before other things got in the way.
I think this is one of the best stories that I have read on this site in quite a while. The only problem is that you just let the whole story out at one time. All seven chapters on one day.
May I recomend in any other large stories that you may write on this site that you release your chapters every other day. That way as a reader I can spend some part of the day involved in real life.(Ie job to pay the bills) wondering what is going to happen next.
As a reader of this site I get a big thrill when i see a new posting of a story that I have not seen in while such as Staphanies deal, so the wait between chapers does not matter.
A reader in Alaska.
I was just alerted to the
I was just alerted to the actual story posting. I'm happy to see it's up but I do believe the question should not have been posted this way, instead the story should have been posted.
That having been said, I usually wait until a story is complete before I even begin, sadly, I have seen too many stories that, once I was heavily invested, petered out and went silent for a year or more. Effectively dead. To save myself the disappointments, I prefer to wait until all parts of a story are posted before reading even the first part.
So I'm hoping to provide a counterweight to the previous poster, in that I am happy to see a Story posted in it's entirety.
Authors are not responsible for readers' time management.
Just to clarify...
The author tried to create this as an organiser page, and in fact it was internally classified as an organiser page, although it somehow managed to become published on the front page, so this is a case of an author trying to follow the site rules, and at the same time master the technology, of which many of you can testify to the complexity thereof. If everything were easy, we wouldn't need elves.
I fixed it, and linked in her other stories as well.
As a rule, it's kinder to impute good intentions to our authors, rather than to assume mysterious plots. Please feel free to blame me, because it took me a while to get around to figuring out how to fix it. It resisted repair several times, and I'm afraid I had to beat it into submission. I'd like to say that I was wearing my black leather bustier at the time, but this would, alas, be a lie. On the other hand, it's something to think about.
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
In fact, I was wrong. If I
In fact, I was wrong. If I had known the story was actually posted already, I wouldn't have run off at the mouth like that. I'm sorry for that. I should have seen the intention and made the links accordingly. I didn't. Next time, I'll take a closer look.
Melanie