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A Metal Night Sneak Out character quote of the dav part 2
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Good Girl, Now Your Not So Sure
Summary:
Jongho, the star football (not American) player, is beloved by the school. He is pure, innocent, and just an overall nice guy. The perfect target for a nerdy girl gone bad, who is trying to get her reign back.
Prolouge-
113 Years Ago the battle of Am Mountain took place, at the mountain of Am. the home to the vampires. Hwoever, the death of many vampires and humans.
On the same night Queen Anhyeon gave birth to a baby girl, in honor of their old home that was just destroyed, she named her daughter Am.
Not too long after the birth, humans came wanting to get rid of who they thought were monsters.
The Queen instantly sent out other vampires and another baby the same age as her daughter, so the population of the vmapires would continue on. Queen Anhyeon held back the armies, creating an invisible shield that would last until the 114th Golden Moon by then Am, should be able to repopulate the vampires.
Am closes the story book that she was reading to the children, and they all were paying their full attention to her. A little girl raised her hand.
“Ms. Am are you the baby in that story?”
Am chuckles putting up the book. “Very observant Mina, I am, it’s important that we learn of this history, because in 2 weeks, the golden moon will be rising, and us vampires will make a name for ourselves!”
Mina looks wide-eyed as she shakes the boy next to her, “We are going to be in history!”
All the children were laughing with each other and cheering, when Am heard someone clear their throat. Am turned around to see her head servant, Geom-Baek, this was the vampire that was sent with her, that she was supposed to grow the colony with.
However, they had run into another tribee, and the group had gone from around 100 to 600 over the past years. Am was confident that when the force field comes off they will be safe.
Geom-Baek on the other hand does not. “What in the world are you doing princess, reading fairytales to children, the golden moon is 2 weeks, and we are nowhere near ready.”
Am rolled her eyes walking off, “We are perfectly fine Geom-Baek, you just worry too much.”
Geom-Baek follows behind her in just a few steps, as she goes into her cabin.
“We have yet to find the purest sacrifice of all time Remember that part? I bet you don’t.”
Am stops hard, “My mother would have never wanted us to have a sacrifice, that just proves were the monsters that the humans make us out to be”
Geom-Baek knows he won’t win the argument with violence, so he stands in front of her.
“Then stab the mortal and turn it into a vampire afterwards for all I care, we need a ruler! One that will lead us up, your probably one of the most important figures in vampire history”
Am throws her hands up in the air, “Since when do we need a human sacrifice just for the Feng Shui! It’s old-fashioned!”
Geom-Baek just stayed silent as Am turned to him, she took a breath to speak, but Geom-Baek beat her to it.
“If you want the tribe to survive, you’ll do it…after all you are the queen”
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Seneca and Sorcery: Genesis and the End of Everything.
Chapter 1.
[[MORE]]“Okay. What next? What next?”
Seneca paced in her room and licked her lips, making clicking noises with her tongue like a clock on coffee. Maybe if she deludes herself into believing time is moving quicker, the thoughts will try to make up for their lax attitude with a pinch of empathy. She slowly angles her neck with both hands until a loud crack emits. Same principle but her brainstem and spinal cord is a knotted garden hose. A burst of inspiration is on the tip of her mind’s tongue. There’s a pained grunt then a grinning sigh.
Seneca poured another snatch of Pop Rocks onto her skinky-blue tongue. With her left hand, she let out a snap as the candy did crackle and a solution did pop into her head.
“Marshmallow!”
Goody’s ears perked up and his sniffing nose ascended from his hammock in the corner of the dining room. The long furry noodle snaked out of his sleeping space and onto Seneca’s desk. He arched his neck in curiosity, exuding enough nosy squirming to get caught in Seneca’s periphery.
“Not for you… I don’t think.” She grabbed her phone and asked, “Can ferrets eat marshmallow?”
“SEARCHING… HMM… NO.”
“Thought so. No treats fer ya right now, furball.” She gave him a scritch between his ears as he exhaled in pleasure or disappointment. Who taught him what a marshmallow is anyway?
Seneca exited her room and crept into the kitchen. The clock on the oven read “02:35.”
“That can’t be right.” Seneca checked her phone. “It’s an hour behind again.” She swung open three different cabinets, humming inquisitively. No marshmallows. But she does have cereal and hot cocoa packets.
Seneca rips open four cocoa packets and shakes the contents onto a dry cutting board: the bamboo one. She does a supposedly-fastidious skim of a count of the marshmallow pieces then, with a humph, fans the dust with her right hand. Her left one making a claw, her middle and index fingers at almost exact eye level. “Focus. Focus.” The dust cleared and settled at the edge of the board until only sugary bits remained. The torn packets received a quick lick and were sealed back up as if nothing happened. The marshmallows were slid into a small bowl and a full box of cereal was taken back into her workspace.
In an impetuous snack craving, the cereal bag pops. Flakes and marshmallows burst like gravel from a meteorite.
“I meant to do that.” Seneca smirks at Goody. He isn’t impressed. “The weird plastic! Why make opening a bag so diffi-. Quit judging me. You were literally licking cocoa powder off the floor a minute ago!”
After flicking on her second set of string lights, Seneca sits down at the desk in her room and places the cereal box at her feet. As she minces the mini-mallows with a metal teaspoon, she digs her bare hand into the cereal box, flicking the marshmallow bits into the bowl and scattering the grain and oat pieces mostly into her mouth. Goody is nibbling on the ones spilling to the floor while occasionally hopping onto Seneca’s lap to get the spillage in the wrinkles of her pajamas. She has to keep rolling up her sleeve before digging back into the box. She’s not realizing she could use her opposite arm. Her left sleeve was torn off a few weeks ago. Goody is wearing it as a makeshift sweater. He likes when they match.
Deeply focusing, she keeps blowing her bright green hair out of her face. Frustrated and standing, “That’s it! I’m cutting all this off tomorrow. Mark my- Oh. Thanks, Goody.” The ferret pawed at her bare legs with a teal baseball cap in his mouth. “Go, D-backs.” Seneca wears it low and backwards. She forgets to sit back down as time flies.
“I’ll go to sleep in a minute. I’ve almost got it.” Goody keeps nipping at her sleeve in a futile attempt to get her to bed. “Go lie in your hammock or something.” Goody chitters and lazily scampers into one of Seneca’s balled up hoodies. All sorts of labeled, mislabeled, and unlabeled flasks litter her work space and have stained her fingers a minimum of 10 colors.
“I’m almost done, Goody.” She stirs and stirs and looks at her viscous mix. “Why won’t it liquify?” She finally sits back down and scoops a dollop with her finger out of the bowl and flicks it until the adhesive mixture splashes into her cup of water. She stares intently. Her eyes water from concentrating so diligently. The dark burgandy clump sinks and does nothing. Furiously she stirs with a chopstick she just so happened to have had. The clump refuses to unclump. “Alright then… For Science!” And Seneca takes a healthy swig of the water. “IT JUST TASTES LIKE WATER!” Goody is startled awake and releases a low hum of a grunt. “Sorry, but what am I doing wrong? I made that jelly last week that makes plain bread taste like a grilled cheese. Why can’t I make a syrup to make this water taste like a root beer float?”
Seneca reaches under her desk into a drawer close to the floor and pulls out a vial resembling a glowstick. Crack. Crack. Crack. A thin cyan stream leaks and splashes along the mixture, freezing it solid instantly.
“Okay, Goody. That’s enough for -“ The frozen mix began popping like little kernels into dense duds that only fill half the glass. “Popcorn? No. These are tiny. Like candy. Well.” She looks at Goody on her bed. He nods. “For Science?” Seneca scoots her chair back from her desks and flings a couple into her mouth. “They look and feel like jellybeans but taste like vanilla dirt clots. I kinda like it.” Dust clouds form and dissipate as she coughs, lingering almost long enough to be interesting to her.
She texts, “Red. Dude, you know how I made that grilled cheese jelly? I tried to do that but with root beer floats for plain water. And I think… I think… I think I just discovered jellybeans. If this was a hundred years ago, I’d be a millionaire. And I’d give them a better name than jellybeans. I don’t know what, but better.” Send.
“Om, nyum,” Goody interjects.
“What? I’m a genius! I invented jellybeans.”
“Hmmmmmm.”
“Kinda. People thought the astronauts were crazy too. Brilliance is never recognized right away.”
“…”
“You know what…” She speaks at her phone, “Call Red.”
She looks at Goody with her “What Now!” eyes. It’s obvious she’s exhausted but her brain hasn’t caught up yet.
“…yeah?”
“Red. Red. Red. Did you see my text?”
“Um. No? It’s… 4:30 AM.What is it? The light from the screen is hurting my eyes.”
“I invented candy!”
“Good job…….”
“Right? Yeah. Yeah. Right? I know.” She nods along, never breaking eye contact with her ferret. “I know! That’s what I said. Yeah. Go back to sleep. I’ve gotta go be awesome some more. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Night. Yes, I’ll charge it. Night. No, you hang up first.”
Red never stays awake over the phone. If he spends the night, Seneca always has something to keep him alert such as a movie. Other times, it’s a game, a dose of fear, or project but that’s a bit redundant. “There’s gotta be a way to send a spell or something over the phone.”
Seneca scoops up a chittering Goody and goes to bed. “You’re telling me, buddy.”
Her alarm goes off two hours later.
“Uuuuuuuggggghhhhh…” Snooze.
Her alarm goes off seven minutes later.
“Uuuuuuuggggghhhhh…” Snooze.
Her alarm goes off seven minutes later.
“Uuuuuuuggggghhhhh… OW!” Goody nips her fingertip. “Why?”
Seneca rolls over and widens her eyes until they’re locked into awake mode. A few twists of her fingers and mostly matching clothes slide in front of her bed.
“Good enough.”
Seneca stumbles to her desk and hovers her hand over her candy cup. She pops one into her mouth as she carries the cup into the kitchen. Her ferret scampers at her feet. Cough. Cough. Bitter vanilla dirt clots.
“Hmm. I think I’m still grooving on the genius vibes from last night, Señor Spaghetto.” And she puts the rest of the beans into a coffee grinder. The machine is loud and irritates Goody as Seneca thoughtlessly watches his ears wiggle. “Oh. Sorry.” The candy is finer but still dense. She puts the sweet aquarium gravel into her drip coffee maker.
A few minutes pass as Seneca puts on baggy black jeans, scuffed shoes, a white tank, and thin yellow flannel. A typical lazy Monday outfit. The “coffee” drips into her color-changing mug. She lost access to the magic color changing mug after her mom caught her dipping Goody’s nails into some failed-experiment liquid. This one merely reacts to heat. Seneca sees it as a net positive.
“For science! In a couple minutes. I’m not burning myself again.”
Goody and Seneca do some morning exercises, mostly stretching on the back porch to greet the sun. Even if Seneca said please, Goody cannot do jumping jacks.
Seneca gets a text from Red. He’s a minute away. Seneca decides to clean the coffee filter before she forgets but discovers the candy has completely dissolved like it never happened.
Knock. Knock.
“Red. Welcome.” Her eyes blink slightly out of sync.
“You look dead tired.”
“Thanks!” Seneca’s eyebrows stretch out as she smiles in exhaustive passion. Her brain moves too slowly to consider if Red was being sarcastic.
“Where’s the creation?” Experience has made him more direct when it comes to Seneca’s projects.
“Straight to business, as usual. Right here!” She leads him over to the kitchen and takes his backpack. “Take a nice long drink.”
“This is actually something, right? Not chocolate window cleaner like last time?”
“C’mon. That was one time…like 2 days ago. And look. The coffee table is still spotless.”
“Yeah but it’s got purple splatters. If you just used a coaster-”
“Just drink!” The backpack dropping on said table punctuates the command.
Sip. Glug… Glug,Glug,Glug.
“That’s enough. Good?”
“Amazeballs. It’s refreshing like a soda. Sweet like a treat. But it warms my body like fresh apple cider. My hands are tingly but I’ll assume that’s energy coursing through my body.”
“Cool. I haven’t tried it yet.”
“Dude, you let me drink that much that fast!?” He pushes the mug into Seneca’s hand and uses her sleeve to wipe his mouth. “I swear… If my eyebrows disappear again…” He runs a finger across his brow in worry.
“C’mon. That was one time…like 4 days ago. And I found them!”
“Brushing the ferret and gluing the clots isn’t finding my eyebrows.”
“Magically gluing,” she says with a flourish of her fingertips. “You can’t even tell.” sip. “Oh. This is good.” She finishes the drink. “I see what you mean about the tingling.”
“It’s a good tingle.” The energy in the room was beginning to find a balance now that Red knew if anything happened to him, it would also affect Seneca. “Where are the beans? If they’re like this, you could start selling energy candy. Ya know? Or even coffee gum. Don’t think we could carry a thermos of this stuff all the way-”
“Naaaaah.”
“Yeah!” Red was genuinely excited. “This stuff tastes amazing. You need to make more.”
“We can’t.”
“Why not? Is this more of that witch ethic? I don’t believe that’s even-”
“I wasn’t taking notes!” Seneca’s eyes dart back and forth. “I don’t know what’s in it. Or in what order. I did use the glow stick thing! Wish you could’ve seen it.”
“Sounds about right. Bacon strips is where the money is at right now anyway. Okay. Let’s get to the library and do some algebra. The test is in two days. Oh, and brush your hair.”
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#BookReview - “The delightful mix of humor, heart, and ‘faith like a child’ (or in this case, like a puppy) makes PHOOEY KERFLOOEY VS THE DEEP, DEEP DARK by Kristen Joy Wilks a joy to read for both kids and adults.”
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Book Review: Phooey Kerflooey vs The Deep, Deep Dark by Kristen Joy Wilks
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The Emerald Regal Guard & the Fern of Revival #tour
Children’s Middle Grade Chapter Book, Action/Adventure
Date Published: March 6, 2025
In the white oak woods as the leaves begin to fall into a river on the
rise. Will the strong-willed emerald guardian Leum and the lizard regal guard
be able to protect the lizard legions from Blaine’s bullfrog brigade and the
rest of their amphibian adversaries? When the king requires a special fern
that only…
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Calling all kidlit fairy story friends! Flight Test 101 is the perfect light fantasy palette cleanser for anyone who needs a bit of fairy dust in an otherwise bleak world. Like all the books in this whimsical series, there is danger aplenty, but also an abundance of kindness, comfort, and love. The perfect cozy children’s chapter book to read with the little ones in your life.
(via Book Review: Flight Test by Amanda M. Thrasher)
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Sherlock Holmes Children’s Collection
The Engineer’s Thumb (The Sherlock Holmes Children’s Collection, #14)by Stephanie Baudet (Adapted by), Arianna Bellucci (Illustrations)
An engineer comes to Holmes with a terrible story to tell. He was lured to a house in the middle of the night and attacked, and his thumb was cut off! Holmes and Watson listen to his story with horror, and they quickly get the police on the track of the…
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Book Reviews: Princess Minna #1-2
The Unicorn Mix-Up (Princess Minna, #1)by Kirsty Applebaum (Goodreads Author), Sahar Haghgoo (Illustrator)
Princess Minna barely sleeps at night, and she knows something must be wrong with the kingdom. Princess Minna has some very special skills; she is good at taming unicorns, and kissing frogs, and fighting dragons. She goes out into the kingdom and finds that there is a unicorn emergency! A…
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Book Review: The Princess in Black and the Kitty Catastrophe
The Princess in Black and the Kitty Catastropheby Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author), Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (illustrator)
5 out of 5 stars
Duchess Wigtower is fed up with her new kitten. It claws and scratches and destroys everything in sight. The Duchess leaves the kitten at the doorstep of Princess Magnolia, and the princess tries to make the kitten comfortable and happy. Princess Magnolia…
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Comparing “The Stolen Magic” to A Mysticons Episode
I was thinking about the “Stolen Magic”, especially the scene where Arkayna is trying to apoligize for not believing Ami is good and Zarya saying “you don’t trust me to pick my friends”. This made me think about Zarya’s experiences with the Pink Skulls. In both the chapter book and “Scourge of the Seven Skies” Zarya trusted someone and saw them as a friend, only for it to cause problems. While there were differences, such as Kitty being a villain and Amileth just deciding to play with magic before giving it back, the parallels are there. Still, there was enough for me to see the parellels.
So why wasn’t it brought up in the book, even though the book took place after the incident with the Pink Skulls? I personally think that it’s because the characters wouldn’t have thought of it, or didn’t want to bring it up. By this time in the Mysticons timeline, the Pink Skulls were already established as valuable allies, and they may not quickly draw parallels between Kitty and Amileth. And even if they did think of that, it would be messy to bring up, due to the differences between the two people. While Kitty was working for Dredbane, Amileth wasn’t, which the Mysticons realized right away. So, bringing it up may not be useful.
I still think it would add something to the book if they did though. The books do allow us to see the character’s thoughts, and there was a bit where Zarya thought Amileth purposely stole the magic. Maybe she could have been thinking about how she was initially wrong about Kitty despite Arkayna and Piper being suspicious, just like she trusted Amileth. Or, if they wanted to prolong the argument between Arkayna and Zarya, perhaps Arkayna could bring up what happened to Kitty, and Zarya could say that it’s not the same, as Amileth isn’t evil, and even if so, Kitty did turn good.
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This is the book cover of a book I was writing last year. It is a little bit based on the Phantom of the Idol book covers because they’re so pretty.
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5 Themes Children Will Really Understand
What are some of the best children’s book themes that kids can really relate to? I’ve shared a few of my favourites in this new blog post.
Have a look. 👇
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Good fiction is a vehicle for profound truth. I’ve spoken before about the importance of cultivating the themes that grow wild in your story, and it is no less important in children’s fiction that it is for adults’ fiction.
When it comes to writing stories for children, especially young children, it can be tempting to either avoid including any particular theme at all (spoiler: that’s nigh to…
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Book Review: Track Star by Kelly Starling Lyons
#BookReview - TRACK STAR by @kelstarly is “the kind of positive-message read that children need more of in today’s divided world… Full of strong & loving role models…”
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TRACK STAR by Kelly Starling Lyons
ILLUSTRATOR: Wayne Spencer
SERIES: Miles Lewis #4
GENRE: Children’s Chapter Books (Clean)
PUBLISHER: Penguin Workshop
RELEASE DATE: August 29, 2023
PAGES: 91
From the award-winning author of the Jada Jones chapter books comes an illustrated spinoff series perfect for STEM fans!
The annual Fun Run is coming up at Brookside Elementary! The students will all run…
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High Flying Princess - landing on bookshelves!
Not all princesses need saving! And that’s especially true for Lucy Veloz: High-flying Princess! The fast-flying adventures of the galaxy’s newest Latina superhero arrives in paperback & hardcover editions. Perfect for middle-grade readers!
The digital Chapter Book is coming to book-shelves this summer!
Over the year of 2020 author Alex Hernandez and illustrator Patrick Lugo crafted this tale…
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New Session | Archive of Our Own
(working title) Fairly Loving
Ch. 1 New Home New Neighbors
A woman moves out of America and into Ireland as she grapples with living on a cursed land.
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Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
Samantha only wanted to pursue a career as a violinist in New York. Instead she finds herself on the run for murder of a white man with Annamae, a runaway slave. On the Oregon Trail, the two girls of color go undercover as boys searching for their pasts and avoiding capture. This story by Stacey Lee is a wonderfully woven tale of perseverance, love and found family set against the backdrop of the Oregon Trail.