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Re: Cost of Wishes, 2 - 3 years ago
Good news! You'll get your wishby NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Cost of Wishes, 2 - 3 years ago
Yes. Nelly's resolution to any problem is murder. She's very simple that way. Simple and dangerous.by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Cost of Wishes, 1 - 3 years ago
Very much so. And a sad Marianne is not super into self-preservation.by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Cost of Wishes, 1 - 3 years ago
The devil has a way of ruining all the wishes. As much as Marianne asks for what she wants, there's always a way to misinterpret it.by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Cost of Wishes, 2 - 3 years ago
Part 2 Again Marianne Dashwood was sitting with her mother and sisters when the mail came. Again her mother then Elinor read the letter of John Dashwood’s death. Had not Marianne wished that her brother’s family lived? Again her mother then Elinor left the room. Again she read the letter. This time, instead of hiding in her room and calling for Nelly, she grabbed her shawl and bonnet and headed oby NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
notes - 3 years ago
I originally started writing this in 2014 in response to the JaOctGoHoNo prompt "10" and I obviously didn't finish it in time because my brain had latched onto what became "Bad Things Come in Threes" so I set this aside and forgot about it for years. Then I finally picked it up and finished it and it was the wrong time of year for this sort of story so I set it aside for a few more years. And nowby NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Cost of Wishes, 1 - 3 years ago
The Cost of Wishes Marianne had locked herself in her room to cry alone and bitterly. Willoughby, who loved her, had committed himself to someone else. The Dashwood girls, it seemed, were too poor to marry. Willoughby was blameless in this, she knew. It was all John Dashwood's fault; his and his son's. Had her great-uncle not settled everything on her nephew Harry -- had he only spared a few thouby NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: The Yin And The Yang: Chapter 1 - 4 years ago
>> The Ghibli to my Disney. Lolby NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Drynuary (one shot) - 4 years ago
Chris and Marianne end up together in cannon so that's what I envision here too. But there's all that courtship during convalesence. So, yeah, a really long Drynuary (convalesence) for my Marianne as she spends more time with Chris over coffee and eventually decides that turning a friend into a boyfriend is slower than just asking out some random guy but you have much better quality control.by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Drynuary (one shot) - 4 years ago
Blurb: Chris Brandon's coffee run is interrupted by meeting the Dashwood sisters. A modern S&S one-shot. Thanks to Karen for the peer review! Drynuary for Hookups "Chris, Chris, Chris," said Maggie Dashwood as she grabbed his arm and yanked him down into the seat beside her, "you gotta help me." Chris Brandon glanced briefly at the cashier he had been walking toward before turning to tby NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Hark! the Lady Catherine Calls - 4 years ago
I had wanted to squeeze in a reference to her proficiency, but alas!by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Gentlemen of Gloucestershire: Chapter 28 - 4 years ago
Toxic masculinity is toxic.by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Attn admin, a typo - 4 years ago
Ahahahargh, that's a typo. The second verse 1 is supposed to be verse 2.by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Gentlemen of Gloucestershire: Chapter 28 - 4 years ago
Ouch, the death of a father figure! I was expecting a best friend or protege, but that's worse. Not like F can act like he's mourning a replacement parent with the general right there.by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Hark! the Lady Catherine Calls - 4 years ago
Blurb: Lady Catherine de Bourgh has some advice, to the tune of the Christmas carol "Hark the Herald Angels Sing". I'm not above holding onto finished work for a month or two before posting it, for various and sundry reasons. But holding onto this for a whole year just felt silly. So this year is a two-fer with this song and Over the River. Hark! the Lady Catherine Calls 1: Introduction Hark! tby NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Gentlemen of Gloucestershire: Chapter 27 - 4 years ago
I like a story that a) acknowledges Henry's flaws and b) lets him improve. Just because Austen didn't list the protagonists' flaws in the title of this novel doesn't mean our hero is totally perfect.by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Over the River, to Netherfield - 4 years ago
Blurb: Lizzy goes to visit her sick sister, to the tune of the Christmas carol, "Over the River". In my mind, "Over the River" is less of a Christmas song and more of a Thanksgiving song, but I'll allow it for my Austen Carol Collection. I've written enough of these that every year I have to ask myself, "Is this the last year? Was last year the Last Year?" Anyway, happy Whatever You Celebrate!by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Lost Causes: a Story in Six Drabbles (JaOctGoHoNo 2021) - 4 years ago
Such a heartbreaking point in S&S. And such a sleezy point in NA!by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Like Women Scorned (JAGoHoNo) - 4 years ago
It's saying the quiet part out loud but,,, Henry Crawford, if we can't reform you, at least we get to punish you!by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: The Masks We Wear (JaOctGoHoNo 2021) - 4 years ago
What a sweet little Halloween stoooOoOOOH MY GOD!by NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Mask of Grief (JaOctGoHoNo) - 4 years ago
Blurb: Frederick Wentworth explains the tragic backstory of a funereal mask to Anne Elliot. Sequel to Chalice of Sorrow. A JaOctGoHoNo challenge (prompt: mask) Mentions of past suicide, arranging for the death of a rival, and slavery. Posting now because I still remember the year when the wifi got all flaky. This is a sequel to Chalice of Sorrow from 2016. I really tried to come up with somethby NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: NO PRESSURE - 4 years ago
It's a deal. If no one else posts by tonight (whenever "tonight" is in your timezone), you set the prompt.by NN S - Tea Room
Re: NO PRESSURE - 4 years ago
It's a deal. If no one else posts by tonight (whenever "tonight" is in your timezone), you set the prompt.by NN S - Tea Room
Re: NO PRESSURE - 4 years ago
It's a deal. If no one else posts by tonight (whenever "tonight" is in your timezone), you set the prompt.by NN S - Tea Room
NO PRESSURE - 4 years ago
No pressure but it's October tomorrow. Is anyone willing to step up and provide a prompt tomorrow?by NN S - Tea Room
Re: JaOctGoHoNo 2021 - 4 years ago
That's how I remember... Stories are posted on 31-Oct at exactly whenever we feel like it. I'm "dying" to read what this year's prompt will be.by NN S - Tea Room
Re: JaOctGoHoNo 2021 - 4 years ago
I think they go up 1-Oct. But let's start the conversation now about who will choose the prompt!!by NN S - Tea Room
Re: Gentlemen of Gloucestershire: Chapter 2 - 4 years ago
Ugh, your Capt Tilney! That he flirted and PHYSICALLY BOXED HER IN while she was a) married b) to his brother, and c) clearly uninterested in picking up what he's laying down, it makes me wonder how things passed between him and Isabella Thorpe, and if her choices in that disaster really made much difference. And I love to hate on man-eater Isabella Thorpe, but I have to defend all women targetedby NN S - Derbyshire Writers' Guild