#muse: penny lane

[midnightsmisery]

starter: open location: middle of the side walk around town

Penny wasn't very good at watching where she was walking. She was more of a stop to smell the roses and head (and eyes) in the clouds, kind of girl. Which was why it wasn't very surprising to her when she bumped into the stranger. What she hadn't seen coming was the wet paint on her overalls, from her latest masterpiece, transferring to the stranger. Their nice outfit now seeming ruined, unless their intention was to look like a walking Jackson Pollock. "I am so sorry! I'll pay to have those dry cleaned, I swear." While trying to pull out her wallet with her business card, she dropped the sketch book she was holding and sent pages scattering in the wind. "For fuck sakes!" @nottinghillstarters

[midnightsmisery]

with addison ( @oftatteredwings )

Sam and Riley being ridiculous (DURING REHEARSALS?) || March 31, 2023

[urbadmami]

A muses life is never easy

[justabandaid]

If it weren’t for the groupies who passionately loved artists and their music, some of the greatest songs would never have been written.

Although flattering, I must admit that being the topic of someone’s lyrics is weird. It’s like having your secret diary sung in public

[mad-hunts]

no, but have i talked about this on here before? because i don't think i have yet. though i was just thinking about all of the different people that barton has been interested in romantically, and one of them that definitely stands out to me is auriel. because even he doesn't really know what it is, but in the main story for barton, she's been missing for quite some time. i'm talking like ever since his final year of undergrad. so, it's been more than a decade since barton has seen her and yet, he still checks whether anyone with her physical description has suddenly shown up again in gotham.

and he has actually made an effort to compile whatever evidence he could pertaining to auriel's disappearance, which... although there hasn't been anything new as to where his character is in the timeline of events right now? barton may be the only person in gotham who is actively looking for her anymore. plus, before auriel went missing, she had actually lent one of her coats to him and i swear to god... this man has never taken care of an article of clothing better than he's taken care of her coat. so, this kind of makes me wonder how barton's usual behavior could be so contrary compared to him doing something like this.

i mean, judging by how he behaves around most people (which is basically TERRIBLY, to put it simply jsjsj), i think that he must've felt like they had a deeper connection between each other somehow. though auriel herself is certainly not a villain. so i'm saying this in terms of barton perhaps trusting her enough to tell her things that he wouldn't normally tell a soul, like how he was (and still somewhat is) afraid of his bio father as a kid. but yeah — seeing as i know what had happened to her character, this hits especially hard for me 😭 because she may not be dead but auriel certainly hasn't been in a good spot for a longgg time

[midnightsmisery]

"Guess the question is, how much do you want to spend then. Because that little cashier is definitely going to rob you blind and sell you a bunch of crap if you're not careful." Penny leaned down to sniff the lilies in front for her. "Tell them how much you want to spend first, and then let them show you some stuff you'd like. Not the other way around. That's how they get you. I should know, they got me when I first moved here."

@nottinghillstarters

LOCATION: My Little Peony

"𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄'𝐒 𝐒𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋 flowers.. I'm not even sure where to start. Just trying to spruce my place up a bit."

[ripbuckley]

penny tags

[holeinthehedgerow]

Welcome travelers. The purposefully lost, the jaded anarchists, and the bloodied knuckled pacifists. Welcome friends, new and old, the usuals, the newcomers, the frequenters, and the casually late.

Welcome to the travelers, the runaways, vagabonds, commuters, and the lost. The strangers, the outsiders, locals, and passerbys.

Welcome to the ones life dealt a bad hand, and with everything they love riding on the table at stake. Who clings to unfavorable odds like a life raft stranded in the ocean, with unwavering, unabating, faithful hope.

Welcome to the ones with calloused palms. With bloody fingertips, and chipped nails, from clawing at the bottom of the barrel.

Welcome the ones running on fumes, sustained by air alone, who keep moving forward, their eyes toward the horizon pointed to the sun, taking one step after another.

We’re going nowhere in a hurry, and we’re seeing all the sights along the way.

To the ones ready to run, with passports in their bed stands. The ones who whisper the mantra “one day” over and over in their sleep.

To the ones with cracked open piggy banks, paying unexpected debts off with their unfulfilled dreams.

Welcome to the ones with whole other worlds in their heads. With un-reflected light in their eyes somehow resonating from nothing but themselves.

To the ones taking deep breaths, and to the ones with exasperating sighs. To the ones gasping for air- their mouth just above water.

Welcome to the ones waiting in the morning at their mailbox for bad news. The unbeaten rolling with the punches.

Welcome to the hurt empathetic ones, who still leave chinks in their armor for others pain to seep in- left saturated by suffering, they stand unquenchable.

Welcome to the movers and the shakers, the still growers, and the painfully static ones watching un-boiling pots.

We’re traveling a long stretch of road between nowhere and nowhere, and we’re stopping at all the tourist traps- going nowhere in no hurry.

Welcome to the penny-pinchers putting money where their mouths are. Giving pennies for their thoughts.

To the ones not born yesterday, and the ones as old as lows hills. To the jack of all trades, and the masters of none. To ones with bites worse their barks, to the ones who bit off more than they could chew, to the ones barking up the right trees.

Welcome to the ones already passed and covered in dust, and to those left standing on the curb soaking wet, and those in the fast lane driving through puddles.

Welcome to my little corner of the internet. My hole in the wall. My hole in the hedgerow.

[midnightsmisery]

Penny nodded, secretly wishing it was a little smaller. While running into Addison had been great, she'd spent every day for the last year and half wishing she'd run into her daughter somewhere here. No matter how much she searched, Stella was still missing. "Trust me, you're magic with kids. I'm pretty sure you're a better parent to most of these kids than their own folks are." While that was true in her case, she was sure it wasn't a stretch for other families. Penny gave him a gentle nudge with her elbow, realizing only after that given their history together... he might not be ready for touches just yet. "I'm okay, I run a studio in Notting Hill now. It keeps me busy." Bitting at her lip, she found herself nervous and wondering know how to tell him the truth about everything. There was a pause while Penny collected her thoughts, her gaze moving away from Addison as she finally found the words to say. "Kal and I separated not long after we got back to New York. We were still figuring out custody stuff-- and he just sort of took Stel one day -- ran off without saying anything. It's been-- over a year and all I know is she was last seen here. Registered at some boujee daycare that she only ever attended once. I'm still looking... everyday. I just thought you should know before you asked about her and thinks got even more weird." Penny forced out a chuckle, as if the situation could get any weirder.

midnightsmisery​:

Penny was on one of her muse walks, aimlessly searching the neighbourhood for inspiration for her next painting. Her head was usually in the clouds, looking at everywhere but where she was going. It wasn’t until she spotted the ex fling and former employee, that she found something more interesting to focus her sights on. “Addison, wow. Must be a small world after all.” The last time she saw him she was standing on the lawn of her old house, telling him that they were moving back to New York… the next day. There hadn’t been much time to explain or even really say goodbye. “Yeah, I came back not too long ago. How are you? How’s work? I hope you’re still working with kids, you were an incredible Manny.”

A small world. Addison was finding that more and more, especially this last month or so, he just kept on bumping into people. Not that there was any bad blood between him and Penny. It was simply a case of something happened and it was probably extremely badly timed. “Very small,” he offered gently, although he was smiling as he spoke. “Work’s busy, still doing what I do. It’s possible I don’t know how to do anything else.” He laughed, expression playful. “How’re you doing?”

[landhoe-norris]

carlando + "i've never seen you cry before"

The sun was beginning to dip over the horizon, casting a golden hue across the track. The pit lane, which was bustling with mechanics and engineers just hours before, had now gone quiet. Lando and Carlos sat on the pit wall, feet dangling above the ground, looking over the expanse of the track that had given them so much frustration earlier in the day during free practice.

They had been teammates for the past two years, a lot of which they had spent together, even outside the track. Their friendship had grown during that time, but now, they were both approaching different paths, with Carlos soon leaving for Ferrari.

“You were fast out there,” Lando said, breaking the silence. “I’m afraid you’re going to leave me in the dust next year.” Carlos shrugged. “You’ll be fine. You always are.”

Lando nodded, but something in Carlos’s tone made him pause. He glanced sideways at Carlos, noting his distant gaze. “Penny for your thoughts?” he asked, bumping their shoulders together trying to lighten the mood.

Carlos turned to look at Lando, his dark eyes glistening. “Do you ever think about… the future?” he mused, his voice distant.

Lando turned to look at him, his green eyes searching Carlos’s face. “You mean, beyond the next race?”

Carlos hesitated, then nodded. “Yeah, beyond the track, beyond the lights, beyond the cheering crowds.”

Lando drew a deep breath, “Sometimes,” he admitted. “Mostly, I think about the present, about the now. But with you leaving for Ferrari next year…” His voice trailed off.

Carlos turned his gaze to Lando, and there was a vulnerability there that Lando hadn’t seen before. “I’m afraid of leaving.”

Lando’s expression softened. “It’s a big change, mate. But why the fear? You’ve earned this. This is what you've been aiming for your whole life.”

Carlos’ eyes shimmered with tears. “It’s not just about changing teams, Lando. It’s about leaving behind… all of this.” He gestured between the two of them, emphasising the bond they’d formed over the years. “It’s about leaving you.”

There was a palpable tension in the air, and Lando felt a pang in his chest. “We’ll still see each other, you know,” Lando said, trying to keep his voice steady. “On the track, off the track…”

Carlos let out a shaky breath, tears forming in his eyes. “It’s not the same, Lando. Being teammates, sharing these moments together…” He paused, trying to find the right words, but they seemed to escape him.

Lando, feeling his own emotions threatening to spill over, whispered, “I’ve never seen you cry before.”

Carlos chuckled softly through his tears. “There’s a lot you haven’t seen, Lando.”

Their eyes locked, a myriad of unsaid words passing between them. Lando’s heart raced, the weight of his own secret feelings pressing heavily on him. But he wasn’t ready to voice them, not yet.

“We’ll get through this,” Lando said, hoping his eyes conveyed the depth of what he felt.

Carlos nodded, smiling weakly. “We always do, don’t we?”

[midnightsmisery]

ᴘᴇɴɴʏ ᴍᴜɴʀᴏᴇ'ꜱ ꜰʟᴀᴛ ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ʜᴇʀ ꜱᴛᴜᴅɪᴏ ɪɴ ɴᴏᴛᴛɪɴɢ ʜɪʟʟ

[justforbooks]

The sultry 1969 hit single Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus was a four-and-a-half-minute distillation of languid Gallic cool, in which a Frenchman, his voice coarsened by Gitanes, is heard billing and cooing with an ecstatically sighing young Englishwoman over the swirling motif of a baroque organ. That man was Serge Gainsbourg; his companion was Jane Birkin, the actor and singer, who has died aged 76. Though Birkin worked with some of the world’s finest film-makers, including Jacques Rivette and Agnès Varda, she knew that Je T’aime … would be remembered above everything else she did. “When I die, that’ll be the tune they play, as I go out feet first,” she said.

Birkin was 21 when she and Gainsbourg met while starring together in the film Slogan (1969). He was 40, and had previously recorded Je T’aime … as a duet with Brigitte Bardot, only for the actor to withdraw permission for it to be released. Birkin had already starred in a 1965 musical, Passion Flower Hotel, scored by John Barry, whom she married that year at the age of 19 and from whom she was divorced in 1968; he was the father of Kate, the first of Birkin’s three daughters. But it was on the duet with Gainsbourg, she said, that for the first time “somebody thought I had a pretty voice”.

She sang her part an octave higher than Bardot. “It gave it a choirboy side that [Gainsbourg] liked a lot,” she said. Rumor's that the vocal track was recorded under the covers during a moment of intimacy were untrue (the couple were standing at separate microphones in a studio in central London) though they did nothing to harm the mythology surrounding a song that was later condemned by the Vatican. “I just remember thinking it was all terribly funny,” she said.

Among the countries that refused to give the song airplay was Britain, where it became the first banned single to reach the top of the charts, as well as the first non-English-language No 1. It was also the lead track on the 1969 album Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg.

Birkin’s life remained inextricably linked to his. They were together for 11 years, and had a daughter, Charlotte, who became a successful singer and actor. Even after they separated in 1980, he continued to write for her, and she went on performing his songs for the rest of her life.

Far from being an adjunct to Gainsbourg’s legend, she possessed her own style, intelligence and attitude. Her wistful beauty was rendered unorthodox by an eager, gap-toothed smile. Her voice was as bewitching as her face: though she lived in France from 1969 onwards, and spoke French fluently, she never shed her breathy, crisply English accent.

She was born in London to Judy Campbell, an actor who had been a muse to Noël Coward, and David Birkin, who was a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and a spy during the second world war. His duties included taking British spies across the Channel to France and bringing back stranded airmen and escaped prisoners of war.

Jane was educated at Upper Chine school on the Isle of Wight. At 17 she starred with Ralph Richardson in Graham Greene’s play Carving a Statue; Greene himself had a hand in casting her. Her screen acting career began with a walk-on part in The Knack … and How to Get It (1965) and a controversial nude scene in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, which she agreed to because Barry had told her she wouldn’t dare.

She had a small role in the Warren Beatty caper Kaleidoscope (also 1966), played a model called Penny Lane in the psychedelic curiosity Wonderwall (1968) and starred with Romy Schneider and Alain Delon in the psychological thriller La Piscine (1969). She got on famously with Bardot when they starred together in Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973). Gainsbourg directed her in a 1976 film named after their hit song; he cast her as a boyish woman who attracts the attentions of a gay man, played by the Warhol regular Joe Dallesandro.

Birkin was tremendous fun in two star-studded Agatha Christie thrillers, Death on the Nile (1978) and Evil Under the Sun (1982). In the cryptic Love on the Ground (1984), Rivette cast her and Geraldine Chaplin as actors drawn into a playwright’s mysterious world. She appeared in two films, The Pirate (1984) and Comedy! (1987), made by her then partner, Jacques Doillon, with whom she had her third daughter, Lou, also a singer and actor. Jean-Luc Godard directed her in Keep Your Right Up (also 1987), while for Varda she played a woman besotted with a 14-year-old boy in Kung-Fu Master! (1988); the film co-starred Charlotte and featured Lou, and was inspired by an idea by Birkin herself.

In the same year, Varda made her the subject of Jane B For Agnès V, in which the actor performed a variety of specially scripted scenes (in one, she was a Stan Laurel type, in another a cockney mother) interspersed with musings on her life. She received the documentary treatment once again when her daughter directed Jane By Charlotte (2021).

Her two most impressive performances came in Bertrand Tavernier’s These Foolish Things, aka Daddy Nostalgie (1990), in which she was moving as a woman trying to repair her relationship with her dying father (Dirk Bogarde); and La Belle Noiseuse (1991), Rivette’s spellbinding four-hour study of a painter (Michel Piccoli) and his new muse (Emmanuelle Béart), in which Birkin played the artist’s wife and former model, who must deal with the indignity of having her younger self literally painted over.

Later films included Alain Resnais’s musical On Connaît la Chanson (1997) and the Merchant-Ivory coming-of-age story A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (1998).

In 2002 Birkin was diagnosed with leukaemia, but by 2006 she had made her directorial debut with the autobiographical family drama Boxes, which she also wrote and starred in, along with Chaplin, Piccoli, John Hurt and her daughter Lou. She appeared in Rivette’s final film, Around a Small Mountain (2009), played herself in Hong Sang-soo’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, and was reunited with Tavernier for his comedy The French Minister (also 2013).

Her look had been widely applauded in the 1960s, and seemed never to go out of date. In the 80s Hermès introduced a large and exorbitantly priced leather bag, named “the Birkin” in her honour. Fashion journalists in recent years could still be heard celebrating the “Jane Birkin top”, referring to the white lace dress made famous by her in the late 60s. “Real life was what I was best at,” she told Vogue magazine in 2016. “I didn’t have confidence in movie cameras or on stage. But I did have confidence in what I wanted in real life. If I wanted to be barefoot and wear a mackintosh, I would do it. I didn’t give a hoot.”

It was at 40 that she finally discarded her youthful ingénue image and performed her first live concert: “I cut my hair off like a boy, I wore men’s clothes. I only wanted people to hear the music and words. It was fantastic. And it was so frightening. Serge was there and he kept lighting his cigarette lighter to make everybody put their lighters on.” That show was preserved on her 1987 album, Jane Birkin au Bataclan. She continued singing and recording into her old age; among her later albums is Birkin/Gainsbourg: Le Symphonique, from 2017, in which the couple’s songs received new orchestral arrangements.

In 2020 she published Munkey Diaries 1957-1982, containing diary entries addressed to her favourite cuddly toy from childhood, which she can be seen clutching on the cover of Gainsbourg’s 1971 album Histoire de Melody Nelson. She buried the toy with him after his death in 1991.

She is survived by Charlotte and Lou, and six grandchildren, and by her brother, Andrew, and sister, Linda. Kate, a photographer, died in 2013.

🔔 Jane Mallory Birkin, actor and singer, born 14 December 1946; died 16 July 2023

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𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑳 !

here to say that i want even more sapphic stuff so i want to get some thing going with the muses under the cut ! if you are interested in a starter from any of them then please like this post ! ♡

𝑴𝑼𝑺𝑬𝑺 .

DAWN MENKEN LIAW / director / bi / she + they / chase sui wonders

born in amsterdam and ( mostly ) raised in new york and has the weird accent to prove it, brought up by the world’s grumpiest old man and it shows, mother owns one of europe’s most successful talent agencies, guitarist in all girl punk band called atomic boob as a side gig, painfully pessimistic, a tortured artist trying to make it in the film industry, has an attitude problem tbh, janis ian coded .

HAVEN MAURY LIANG / weather girl / queer / she + they / havana rose liu

local weird girl who will flirtatiously read your palm at a party, has big dreams of joining cirque du soleil as a trapeze artist and is simply forecasting the weather until then, in love with love and everything to do with it while simultaneously being a commitment-phobe, victim of the perfect little rich girl to quietly disowned pipeline, the vibe of a drunk girl in a club bathroom, a lil ty lee inspired .

ROMINA ESCOBAR / reality tv star / lesbian / she + her / camila mendes

a part of a family reality show inspired by the kardashians, deeply codependent and therefore painfully loyal to those she deems deserving, more than kind of bratty, vain, and self absorbed, hates men and is loud about it, is probably the last one to figure out her sexuality because doesn't every gal just want to makeout with her bffs sometimes ? mildly inspired by jennifer check .

RUTH RANSOM / actress / bi / she + her / kristine froseth

daughter of a washed up rockstar and his groupie, mommy and daddy issues ( double homicide ), ran away from home at seventeen, energiser bunny adjacent girlie who never shuts up, the world's biggest flirt with the world's biggest commitment issues, stumbled into the world of acting half hungover and still in last night's glittery makeup, manic pixie dream just a girl inspired by penny lane.

SLATER KATZ  / rockstar / lesbian / she + they / ruby cruz

born and raised in australia, replacement child to an incredibly well off couple who wanted to save their marriage , has had a prodigious talent with music from childhood, has daddy issues, mommy issues, and anger issues, painfully obtuse with feelings, does not know how to talk to people, tends to hit first and ask questions later, never has an empty bed, billy dunn and daisy jones coded .

𝑻𝑬𝑺𝑻 𝑴𝑼𝑺𝑬𝑺 .

ELM MOSSBACH  / museum tour guide / queer / she + they / taylor russell

works for a small museum in a small town in the middle of nowhere, generally the kind of place that people stop by for gas on their way to somewhere better, very much suburban gothic inspired in terms of environment . does she work at an oddities museum ? maybe so . longs for adventure but feels stuck, wants to get out of this town .

FELICIA 'FLICK' RELF / actress / bi / she + her / madelyn cline + meghann fahy

was in a mystery inc crew when she was a teenager and is the star of a limited series inspired by their exploits, is seen as a sellout by the other members of that crew but does it really matter if she's famous ? grew up in a motel as the daughter of the deadbeat parents who owned it, swears all the supernatural stuff in their stories is all fake, but was it really ? semi inspired by scooby doo and the x files .

KINSLEY 'KIDNEY' BEAN  / petty thief / bi / she + her / abigail cowen

raised by two parents who had too many kids to truly give a fuck about all of them, the only girl in a hoard full of brothers, has the accent of a southern belle and the charm to match, will use that charm to walk away with your wallet, has never been single for more than a few weeks in her life, responsible for more than a few gas station hold ups, inspired by villains ( 2019 ) and bandits in general .

LORENA FONTBONA  / grad student / queer / she + they / jenna ortega

drenched in dark academia vibes but exclusively the weird ones, family owns a successful board game company that a lot of them are convinced they made a deal with the devil for but ren has their doubts, a legacy in a secret society, game theory student who reluctantly plans to take over the family business, a natural cynic, april ludgate coded and semi inspired by ready or not .

OCTOBER 'TOBI' CRAFT  / f1 racer / lesbian / she + they / margaret qualley

white trash golden retriever, grew up in a trailer park without a lot of prospects so even she's surprised that she got this far, raised by a father that specifically always wanted one of one of his sons to race ( surprise, dad !), got discovered by chance while street racing ( allegedly ) and hasn't looked back since, can't go to a gay bar without running into at least five girls that she's slept with .

RAVEN ZHAO  / gas station attendant / bi / she + they / courtney eaton

final girl of death valley, nevada and no one will let her forget it, born as the child of a obsessive occultist and his lovesick wife and was abandoned by both respectively, spent most of her adolescence living in an abandoned 'cursed' church and ergo was the town's very own social pariah ( and the first scapegoat ) for it, refuses to go to therapy even if the killer ended up being her own mother .

WREN 'OZ' OSWIN  / athlete / lesbian / they + them / brigette lundy paine

raised by a couple of zoologists who named all of their children after animals and dragged them around the world for their work, one of seven kids, grew up homeschooled and therefore chronically online in search of community and it shows, a goober who just happens to be tall and surprisingly athletic, the world's biggest romantic but they try to keep that on the low, in the wnba .

WYATT KILMER  / student / lesbian / she + they / sophie thatcher

was the favourite child of the worst father in the world which sucked but happens to come in very handy in the zombie apocalypse, was taught to hunt under the guise of bonding, lost almost their entire family at the start of the apocalypse but is searching for their little brother, was the first person in their family to go to university but does that matter now ? deeply ( and reluctantly ) protective .

ZIAZAN 'ZI' DERIAN  / mortician / lesbian / she + her / angela sarafyan

grew up working in her family's funeral home and always knew she would inherit it, has a passion for her work that was also inherited, deeply romantic in an only mildly creepy way ( most of the time ), almost always finds herself going for the crazy ones, writes gothic literature under a pseudonym, vaguely inspired by morticia addams and lisa frankenstein .

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[mthollowell-writes]

Writeblr Introduction: Hello!

About Me:

Hello! My name is MT (she/her) and this is my writeblr!

I write speculative fiction with a bent towards horror and the strange, though I love experimenting with other genres every so often.

My themes and topics tends towards the fantastical and the existential. Monsters, mysteries, and histories are my bread and butter with dashes of "humor." The quotations are an urge to take that assertion with a grain of salt.

Other things that often crop up in relation to writing is my love of music, science, and nature (especially plants, birds, and mycology)

General Housekeeping

Below the cut you will find information about all my WIPs, past and present. This will be updated periodically!

But first, some quick bullets

To start off, I should state all my writing (esp longer pieces) will be posted on my website: mthollowell.com . Alongside my fiction, you'll also find book reviews and other writing related musings.

All my writing updates will be under #mt writes. This includes snippets, blurbs, tag games, writing challenges, and the like

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Long Term Projects

Festival of Shadows/Supernatural Mystery, Horror, Thriller During the Hollow Grove's infamous Founder Festival, reporter Mariela Hudson seeks to uncover a five year mystery that involves a cult, a mysterious ritual that ended in a deadly fire, and a missing woman whose relationship with both is still shrouded in shadows. All the while, a monster waits. WIP Introduction /// Excepts under #festivalwip

Grim Lore WIP/ Supernatural Mystery, Horror Sebastian Calderon accepts a job in a new town called Hollow Grove that's setting up roots in the wilderness on the promise of land and some cash in his pocket. But not everything is as it seems and the price he pays for his labor may be too steep.

Hollow Grove Stories/Speculative Fiction, Horror, "Humor" A collection of shorts about the various characters in Hollow Grove often set during its contemporary timeline (circa 2016-2017). Mischief and terror abound. Stories under #hollow grove stories

Divided Loyalties WIP/ Fantasy, Adventure, Romance Kalon is a prince of a fallen empire seeking vengence against its conquerer, Satomi Satinos, the bandit king. In order to do that, he infiltrates his kingdom in hope of slaying the source of his power, the great dragon Raylene. But in his quest, he unwittingly falls in love with the bandit king's daughter, Uraya, and uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to break the whole of their world.

Story 1 WIP/ Fantasy, Action Adventure, Coming of Age Haru is a young prisoner of a never-ending war that spans multiple worlds. He makes his living at the forge, but his daily life is interrupted when a guard is found dead and he's accused of the murder. As he awaits his execution, he's offered a chance of escape by a man who brings him to another world. He tries to keep a low profile and his new powers in check, so he doesn't attract the attention of the guards tracking them. When he runs into a group of kids in this strange new world, colloquially known as Earth, he opens their mind to all the worlds hidden around them. (Called Story 1 since its the first comprehensive story I've ever come up with yet I cannot think of a better title)

Shorter Projects (Last Updated October 2024):

31 Days of Horror 2024: A collection of stories I made for a 2024 October horror challenge

Escape from Gallow Lane: A Hollow Grove Story Local Hollow Grove reporters Mariela and Emery find themselves on the wrong side of the law, and things somehow get worse from there.

Hanging on the Telephone: A Hollow Grove After a seance in the basement of the Edelhaus Church goes awry and cuts off the WIFI across the county, Mariela Hudson tries her luck with the old tech of yesteryear with her dad’s old dial-up computer.

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𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴𝙻𝙸𝚀𝚄𝙴  ❛ 𝙶𝙸𝙶𝙸 ❜  𝙷𝙰𝚁𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙶𝚃𝙾𝙽   …   𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚    …   kate hudson (  penny lane ,  how to lose a guy in ten days ,  raising helen ,  le divorce ex.  x x x  )

𝙳𝙴𝚅𝙾𝙽 𝙰𝙼𝙱𝚁𝙾𝚂𝙴   …   𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚    …   nicole kidman  (  bewitched ,  practical magic  ex. x x  )

𝚂𝙸𝙻𝙰𝚂 𝙰𝙼𝙱𝚁𝙾𝚂𝙴   …   𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚    …   influences of  harry connick jr  &  charles michael davis  ( dean in the iron giant , macel in the originals  ex.  x x - timestamp 1:11  )

𝙽𝙸𝙺𝙾𝙻𝙰𝙸 ❛ 𝙽𝙸𝙺𝙾 ❜  𝙳𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝙴𝚄𝚇   …   𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚    …   influences of  theo james  &  felix mallard  (  divergent series  &  ginny and georgia  ex.  x x x  )

𝙻𝚄𝙲𝙸𝙴𝙽 ❛ 𝙻𝚄𝙲 ❜ 𝙱𝙻𝚈𝚃𝙷𝙴   …   𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚    …   matthew mcconaughey  (  dazed  &  confused ,  how to lose a guy in ten days ,  fool’s gold  ex.  x x x  )

𝙺𝙸𝙴𝚁𝙰𝙽 ❛ 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙿𝙷 ❜ 𝙱𝙾𝚈𝙲𝙴   …   𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚    …   joseph gordon-levitt  (  treasure planet ,  the wind rises ,  10 things i hate about you ex. x x x  )

𝙸𝚂𝙰𝙳𝙾𝚁𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙹𝙾𝚁𝙸𝙴 𝙲𝚁𝙾𝙵𝚃   …   𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚    …   eliza dushku  (  bring it on ,  buffy the vampire slayer ,  wrong turn  ex.  x x x  )

𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙰𝙼 ❛ 𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻 ❜ 𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙱𝙴𝚂   …   𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚    …  josh hutcherson ( the hunger games , five nights at freddy's ex. x x )

NOTE * these are what i picture my original characters to sound like . the examples are given to show the difference in pitches , tones & cadences that each of my muses have . it also gives a little more insight to their characterizations & provides some life to them .