I'm just going to start walking and see where the road takes me.
This journal begins on Jan 01, 2009 with 1 word, and continues until Dec 31, 2009. During these 365 days Melissa Maples will write a total of 66,795 words.
She wondered if it could be done backwards. Not in reverse, you understand, but rather the second part before the first part, the acts reversed as if it were a play where things started out in the middle of the... More »
The beginning was simple enough, everyone was happy except for our protagonist, or is that protagoniste, who was a bit fuzzy around the edges for all the things she couldn't understand about life and how it worked. She was young,... More »
We like to think that our adventures will be romantic, not in the passionate love sort of way, but in the "and then our hero saved the day" sort of way. Rarely if ever are they actually like that. In... More »
So tonight is the night it all begins, and where was she? In her office, in a meeting, which was exactly where she did not want to be. In the office, she was reduced to an ant, or perhaps worker... More »
And suddenly the week was busy, crazy busy in fact, and she had no idea where to start with taming it. There was always this need in her to tame, as well, as if busy were an unwanted behaviour that... More »
Everybody wants something, don't they, he thought. Since five o'clock in the morning he'd been pestered by people who were demanding things - some reasonable, some not. And they always came in bursts, didn't they - they couldn't be spaced... More »
He thought about how much he hated this situation, but even more he thought about how much he despised his reaction to it. There was a time in his life that it wouldn't have mattered, that to him the difference... More »