Tell me all your stories!
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Thread Topic: Tell me all your stories!
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hey, nightfa11, go into the Short Story thread. I have some advice for you.
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Could I put a story I had to write for school on here?
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Sure!
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Okay, a little preface, you know the story A Midsummers Night Dream by Shakespeare? For our assignment, we had to take the characters and plot from that story and make them into a more present-day kind of thing.
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Careful the pacts you make
“I don’t like that boy, Dad!” Hermia yells before slamming her door shut.
Hermia stomped to her bed, then collapsed on it. She screamed into her pillow. Why can’t her dad understand? She doesn’t love Demetrius. She wanted Lysander, a shy, sweet boy.
She pulls out her phone and calls her best friend, Helena. They’ve been best friends since birth. She couldn’t imagine life without her. Everytime Hermia’s dad does something that makes her cry, Helena always makes her feel better. Helena picks up on the first ring, like she always does, and Hermia rants to her.
“What hell it is, to have your love life determined by someone else! I am sick of my dad trying to live my life for me! First he picked all my classes for me, then my extracurriculars, and you know how I hate chess club! All the boys in there do is stare at my chest! And there is the whole therapy thing when he found out I was bi! I don’t see why he just…”
Helena tried to listen to everything Hermia said, but she got lost in the sound of her voice. Helena had been in love with Hermia for years, but never told her. She just acted like she wanted Demetrius so to not ruin her friendship. So she keeps silent and hopes that one day Hermia will love her too.
“...Sander will be crushed when he hears that my father won’t accept him. I mean seriously, what is my dad’s deal? This is 2019, not the early 1900’s.What do you think?”
Helena tried to sound comforting, but in reality she was jealous of Lysander. She told Hermia what she thought was best, then they ended the call. Hermia then called Lysander and explained everything to him. To her surprise, he wasn’t sad. He was angry and made a plan:
“ I have an aunt whose husband died. She is rich and has no children. She lives about twenty miles from LA, and she thinks of me as a son. I could marry you there, my love, where that strict and overbearing father of yours can’t touch us. On the stroke of midnight, sneak out of your father’s house tomorrow night and meet me in the big park a few miles in town. You remember the place? I met you there once with Helena to celebrate May Day. I’ll wait for you there. Then we will drive out of this town and never look back.If we can’t manage that, there is always that pact we made when we were younger!”
It took her a minute to remember, and then she gasped, “You mean our suicide-pact? You must be joking!”
When they were younger, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena, and Lysander had all been friends. When they were young, they decided nothing would keep them apart, so they made a pact: Either they all lived happily together, or they all died together. Then highschool came and the rift began between Demetrius and Lysander, over Hermia. Over time that rift completely tore their group apart, and everyone just kinda forgot they were ever friends. Lysander and Demetrius found new friends, and Helena and Hermia became even closer than before.
“Oh, I’m serious. Even if we are the only ones who remember, death is better than not being able to call you my wife,” Lysander said.
Hermia, after hearing that agrees to the plan. She calls Helena and tells her the plan. Helena is shocked that her friend would agree to such a thing, and said as much.
“I know it seems a little much, but if it is the only way we’ll ever be together, then I have to do it!” Hermia exclaimed, before hanging up.
Helena chewed on her lip, thinking.She couldn’t let Hermia go through with their plan, could she? But she knew she wouldn’t be able to stop them alone.She did the only thing she could: She searched her phone for the number of her old friend and supposed love interest. -
(Pt.2)
“LYSANDER?! Oh, Helena, what are you doing here? And is- is that Demetrius?” Hermia says, looking at Helena with confusion.
“Helena told me everything. About why you’re here, and what is your backup plan is. I’ve called your father, and he called the cops. The park is surrounded. You can’t escape and as we speak, officers are searching the park for Lysander. There will be no running away for you, or Lysander,” Demetrius said.
Hermia looked at Helena with hurt filled eyes. “You told him? After all we’ve been through, you betrayed me?How could you?”
Helena took a step toward Hermia and was about to speak, but Hermia ran off crying before she could. Hermia ran through the park, yelling Lysanders name. Suddenly, she runs into something hard and falls back onto her butt.
“Hermia, is that you?” The dark form says.
“Lysander!” Hermia cries and jumps up to hug him. “Helena betrayed me! She told Demetrius, and he told my father, who called the cops. We can’t escape!”
Hermia begins to cry and Lysander holds her against his chest as she does.
“I know this already, Demetrius called me a couple hours ago. My love, you remember what we agreed on if we couldn’t escape? I think that is our only option other that being apart for the rest of our lives. I wrote a letter ahead of time in case it came to this. Which option to choose?
Hermia sniffled and said “I pick our original plan. How are we going to do it?”
Lysander lifts something off the ground. “I brought a lot of rope. I brought enough so that the other can honor the pact if they chose to. Come this way, I found the perfect set of trees. They make their way to the trees, and prepare their nooses, and the others’ ones as well. They then proceed to hang themselves. Helena and Demetrius find them, and as Demetrius reads the letter, Helena collapses on the ground crying. They decide to honor the pact, and the cops soon find them. The cops give Hermia’s grief-stricken father the letter.
Bottom smiles to himself as the story comes to an end inside his head. He sits up as the nurse comes into his padded room to feed him his dinner. He asks her to scratch his neck for him since he can’t move his arms due to the straight jacket. She cautiously consents and slowly reaches out to scratch his neck. He lunged at her, just barely missing her fingers when his teeth slam shut. He laughs as she runs out of the room, then falls back into his fantasy world. This time, the story is about a fairy queen and her jealous husband. -
Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius, Bottom (yes that is his name), the fairy queen, and the jealous husband are all Characters From A Midsummers Night's Dream
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Bravo! That was quite the enrapturing story O_O
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That was great!
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Thank you guys!!! I worked really hard on it.
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I have a bunch of stories I wrote in Creative writing if you'd like to read them..They are all creepy and at least one person dies in every single one, just so you know. XD
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Do any of you guys know what Storybird is?
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I do not.
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What is it?
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