'My First Scaring' is a book written by reknown Weregoose author known simply as 'Mother'. While the many early editions of this short story feature art of young weres, recent releases have seen a wider audience boasting baby Undead, Demons, and various monsters (although only the races with a natural affinity for thumbs). Miss Mother Goose is also unveiling a underwater cave painting version of the work that is a co-operative piece between herself and famous each uisge artist William McAdams. The edition available for his class contains prints from the aforementioned work, and for the first time features children of both undead and monster lineage.
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1 - Ugh, who assigns a children's book? You leaf through the pages, but learn nothing new. 2-3 - Look at you, rediscovering your childhood! You find it hard to read as you keep glancing to all the pictures...They're very well done actually, but sometimes they seem to follow their own script. Goodness, that little patchwork girl is so mean to that little...bear? Werewolf? Gorilla? You've found a clue! 4 - You're so bored you actually bother to read the About the Author section. Apparently Miss Mother Goose has an adopted were-ape daughter who's engaged to the artist of this book. You've found a clue! 5-7 - On the last page, it appears that the horse-boil child and the gorrilla looking kid are holding hands. Storybook romance? The patchwork girl is glaring at them in the distance. A little creepy... You've found a clue! 8-9 - The dedication page reads, "To my daughter, Francine." Isn't that the name of one of the other authors? You've found a clue! 10 - Mr. William sure is putting an emphasis on how kind and pretty that ape-girl is. You've found a clue!
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4Total: 4 (1-10)
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:55 am
It was difficult - no, impossible, really - to keep Riley away from a class that involved reading books as its exercise. She had a copy of the reading list handy, and was all too happy to take books out and begin her exercise. Unfortunately, when she actually started on the list of four.. she felt remarkably underwhelmed at the choice of literature.
A scareling's book? Really?
She opened up to the author's page, reading it thoroughly. Geese and apes, love and literature. All in one page. It would surely be the only interesting part of the book.
If it could even be called that.
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4 - You're so bored you actually bother to read the About the Author section. Apparently Miss Mother Goose has an adopted were-ape daughter who's engaged to the artist of this book. You've found a clue!
And then she read it again, in case she missed something.
(She didn't.)
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5Total: 5 (1-10)
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:12 am
Riley flipped through the book, barely reading through its actual story. When she got to the end, she found a horse and gorilla scareling together. She chuckled softly, strangely fond of the sight. In an odd, vague way, it reminded her of her relationship with Malodore.
...Especially since there was a patchwork staring at them from far away.
A scarelings book about inter-species relationships, then. That explained why it was on this particular professors reading list.
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5-7 - On the last page, it appears that the horse-boil child and the gorrilla looking kid are holding hands. Storybook romance? The patchwork girl is glaring at them in the distance. A little creepy... You've found a clue!
She turned back to the authors note, struck suddenly by a familiarity. The scareling at the end was a gorilla. And the author has an ape child engaged to the artist?
She wondered if there was some correlation. Perhaps the artist drew them as echoes of themselves.
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7Total: 7 (1-10)
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:20 am
Returning to the final page, she studied the two quite closely. It wasn't hard to accept that the artist had an obvious bias over what species they should draw. It made sense.
Riley rifled through the pages again, barely passing over the dedication page as she did so. Her eidetic memory picked up on the name there, and she paused, realizing she'd seen it before. Her hands reached over to pick up the reading list, scanning over it quickly - and there at the bottom, under the small information about the final book in the series, was her answer. In Stitches: An Observer's Guide to Persons of Put-Together Personage, written by an up and coming professor of the reknown College of Laboratory Arts, wereape Francine Stein.
She just bet all four books had a few connections like this. Professor Darcy was playing a little game, with these books. An interesting little web, a story of its own to tell.
She liked this professor. He seemed clever. And she forgave him for assigning a scareling's book to read, since it was obvious a clue to the greater picture.
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8-9 - The dedication page reads, "To my daughter, Francine." Isn't that the name of one of the other authors? You've found a clue!
Three clues complete!
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:26 am
Flylight
Flylight Fiction; Teen Romance
This awkward and halting work hails from one of the finest fan-fiction writers of this age, the up and coming undead novelist Selena Mayard. Written for teens, it follows the tale of young Isabelly Swine - the destitute daughter of an estranged yeti couple. Belly was forced to move from her cold, northern territory home to her father's hutt in the murky swamps of central Halloween. Here, she meets and falls into a forbidden romance with the each uisge Eanruig. Their struggles as he resists the urge to take her to the water, and as she has to deal with the fact that she will never truly be as beautiful and smooth skinned as he, provides an emotionally flat and predictable plot that nevertheless has proved overwhelmingly popular with young ladies between the ages of 14 and 40.
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1 - This is seriously a great book! How could people hate it?! For some reason, this read-through has you thoroughly ~*enchanted*~. You feel you can strongly identify with the characters, especially that poor undead girl. How dare Belly and Eanruig chose each other over her?! TEAM JESSY FOR LIFE! 2-4 - You read the forward. It's kind of awkward, and has a lot of notes written to the author's ex-husband...A Mr. McAdams. You've found a clue! 5-6 - It becomes increasingly clear as you bash your head against the word-vomit of each chapter that the author really has something strongly against the main protagonist. It's as if she is trying to make her as plain, boring, and utterly unlikeable as possible. Meanwhile, it seems the only half-decent character is that poor patchwork, Jessy. Destined to be locked in unrequited love forever! Hey, isn't the author an undead herself? You've found a clue! 7 - You suddenly find ponies very attractive. This book shows a side of the each uisge you never thought exsisted. A dark, brooding and sexy side. Go team Eanruig! Ok, that motto needs some work... 8 - Some of the lines in this book seem oddly... derogatory. And personal. "I know what you are." "Say it out loud." "...Hair fetish." What does that even mean?! You've found a clue! 8 - 9 - Mr. McAdams...The same last name as the artist for one of the books on your list. Could he be Selena's elusive ex husband? And isn't he also an each uisge? Odd that she'd use that as a main character in the book. And she portrays Eanruig so unflatteringly! You've found a clue! 10 - You fall asleep in the middle of a chapter. Teen romance just doesn't interest you, or maybe this section is just particularly boring.
When Riley first picked up the next book in the reading list, she actually assumed it would be another scareling book. And when she started to read it, that assumption was not entirely proved false. The writing was poor, the story was cliche, and the characters were actually really rather boring.
The only problem was, as she continued to read it, she realized the book mimicked all of her forbidden romance novels; the ones she hid under her couch so that no one would know of her secret obsession. And the more she was reminded of them, the more she got into the story.
Poor Jessy.. she seemed to be the only interesting, capable character of the bunch. These teenagers were fools.
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1 - This is seriously a great book! How could people hate it?! For some reason, this read-through has you thoroughly ~*enchanted*~. You feel you can strongly identify with the characters, especially that poor undead girl. How dare Belly and Eanruig chose each other over her?! TEAM JESSY FOR LIFE!
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5Total: 5 (1-10)
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:28 am
The most difficult part of the book to try and get over, was just how terribly the main character was written. What did the author have against plain ghouls? It was insulting, how terribly she was being written. Riley was surprised at this turn of events, since she was used to an author - even a bad one - turning their main protagonist into some sort of herald that carried the story. Here, the only one that carried any part of the story was that side character that seemed to be getting shafted everywhere she went. The patchwork. The poor ghoul. Destined to be locked in an unrequited love forever..
Riley remembered how she'd compared the patchwork in the scareling book, to Christof. And now again, as she read this story, she remembered Amrita's admittance of how Christof was never fully hers, as he was always locked in some sort of unrequited-
...
Two patchworks. Two books. And while they were oddly in the same situation, they were being portrayed quite differently. One was favorable - Jessy. But that glaring patchwork in the scareling book..
Hmm.
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5-6 - It becomes increasingly clear as you bash your head against the word-vomit of each chapter that the author really has something strongly against the main protagonist. It's as if she is trying to make her as plain, boring, and utterly unlikeable as possible. Meanwhile, it seems the only half-decent character is that poor patchwork, Jessy. Destined to be locked in unrequited love forever! Hey, isn't the author an undead herself? You've found a clue!
Riley did not find ponies attractive, even if the one in the book made her temporary feel flush with romantic intentions. But no, as soon as she thought about it, Calder came into her head, and any chance of a Team Eanruig mindflayer flew out the window.
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7 - You suddenly find ponies very attractive. This book shows a side of the each uisge you never thought exsisted. A dark, brooding and sexy side. Go team Eanruig! Ok, that motto needs some work...
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6Total: 6 (1-10)
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:31 am
It became more and more obvious as she continued to read on, that the author was telling the same story as the scareling book, from another viewpoint. And that made this story, and the first, all too real.
They were based on real life. But whose real life?
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5-6 - It becomes increasingly clear as you bash your head against the word-vomit of each chapter that the author really has something strongly against the main protagonist. It's as if she is trying to make her as plain, boring, and utterly unlikeable as possible. Meanwhile, it seems the only half-decent character is that poor patchwork, Jessy. Destined to be locked in unrequited love forever! Hey, isn't the author an undead herself?
Already having made some assumptions, Riley flipped the book to the front, read the forward, and instantly recognized the name of the author's ex-husband.
Bingo.
The artist from the scareling book. He was responsible for drawing things from a different perspective. And now Riley knew why he was an 'ex'.
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2-4 - You read the forward. It's kind of awkward, and has a lot of notes written to the author's ex-husband...A Mr. McAdams. You've found a clue!
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7Total: 7 (1-10)
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:32 am
Nope.
Still didn't like ponies.
No matter how sexy Eanruig was when he broodingly loomed over Belly and-
Nope.
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7 - You suddenly find ponies very attractive. This book shows a side of the each uisge you never thought exsisted. A dark, brooding and sexy side. Go team Eanruig! Ok, that motto needs some work...
As she finished the book, Riley started to realize this particular author was holding a very strong grudge against the two that the book's main couple was based off of. But in the end, she could tell that the each uisge, Mr. McAdams, was not quite as undeniable and irresistable as the man she'd written him out to be, in the books.
After all, he was her ex. So at some point, she resisted.
Real life love stories were far more delicious than fake ones.
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8 - 9 - Mr. McAdams...The same last name as the artist for one of the books on your list. Could he be Selena's elusive ex husband? And isn't he also an each uisge? Odd that she'd use that as a main character in the book. And she portrays Eanruig so unflatteringly! You've found a clue!
