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31_days challenge. The prompt was: To change your life, change your mind.
Marshall Teller trudged up the narrow wooden stairs that lead to the Secret Spot and threw himself into his writing chair with a sigh. He opened the Evidence Locker, removed his notebook, and began to write.
"To whom it may concern..."
He stopped. Who exactly was he writing this for? His parents, who thought his investigations into the centre of weirdness for the entire planet was just a reaction to finding himself transplanted from the thriving crimeopolis that was New Jersey to a small isolated farming community in the agricultural heart of the nation? Police and politicians and teachers, who held all the power, who knew everything he did and probably more, and didn't care? The kids at school, who he'd saved from a life of drab, grey, glasses-clad zombification, and who, if they noticed him at all, only did so to comment on how weird that new kid was, and return to whatever it was they were doing?
He flipped back through previous entries, chewing the end of his biro thoughtfully, then turned to a fresh page and tried a new approach.
"Once upon a time, in a far-off land..."
31_days challenge. The prompt was: To change your life, change your mind.Marshall Teller trudged up the narrow wooden stairs that lead to the Secret Spot and threw himself into his writing chair with a sigh. He opened the Evidence Locker, removed his notebook, and began to write.
"To whom it may concern..."
He stopped. Who exactly was he writing this for? His parents, who thought his investigations into the centre of weirdness for the entire planet was just a reaction to finding himself transplanted from the thriving crimeopolis that was New Jersey to a small isolated farming community in the agricultural heart of the nation? Police and politicians and teachers, who held all the power, who knew everything he did and probably more, and didn't care? The kids at school, who he'd saved from a life of drab, grey, glasses-clad zombification, and who, if they noticed him at all, only did so to comment on how weird that new kid was, and return to whatever it was they were doing?
He flipped back through previous entries, chewing the end of his biro thoughtfully, then turned to a fresh page and tried a new approach.
"Once upon a time, in a far-off land..."
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Date: 2015-10-09 11:02 pm (UTC)and everyone said what a horrible children's author he was since his books are so scary
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Date: 2015-10-09 11:11 pm (UTC)who thought he was awesome
and read them in secret
which actually made him even cooler
if only in their eyes
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Date: 2015-10-09 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-10 11:48 am (UTC)and the other kids are like, hey,is this a super.old letter? better leave that alone if I dont want.tobey maguires terrible face attackng me,PEACE OUT
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Date: 2015-10-10 12:09 pm (UTC)yes
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Date: 2015-10-10 12:33 pm (UTC)I totally need that story now.
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Date: 2015-10-10 12:54 pm (UTC)we all do.
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Date: 2015-10-10 07:59 pm (UTC)Marshall is totally the American Neil Gaiman in this reality.
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Date: 2015-10-10 08:15 pm (UTC)