"A Secret to Keep" A Book by Me

Here is a book that I started writing when I was eight or so and I am still writing it til this day. It's been about five years now and it still isn't finished. Here a sample of it:


                                                          A Secret To Keep
                                                                Author: Rina Love
#1 The Perfect Spot
    "Hey Lyss," cried Marina from the ocean shore. "come on in. The water is really warm." It was the beginning of summer break. Alyssa Periwinkle and Marina Shell decided to spend the summer down at the ocean. They had bought a small rustic green cabin with wooden trim three years ago. They were now seventeen.
    "I'm coming!" Alyssa called back to her. They have known each other since they were five. They're best friends. They both LOVE the ocean. They lived by it in Florida. Their families decided the girls should go to the Caribbean for the summer.
    Alyssa grabbed their masks and fins and ran to meet Marina. Alyssa has dark, shoulder length hair and green eyes. She enjoys adventuring and swimming. She is very funny and can be very stubborn. Marina (or Rin) has blue eyes and golden brown shoulder length hair. She also enjoys adventuring but is more laid back and smooth.
    They have a special relationship with the water animals. Most fish will swim away when you get to close, but Rina and Lyss can sit right in the coral reef and, if anything, the fish will only get closer. They spend a lot of time with the dolphins that live rite there, Mieka, Flyn and occasionally Bubbles. Alyssa and Marina get to ride on their backs whenever they wished.
    One day, when the girls returned from bathing suit shopping, they decided to have a picnic. They packed up the lemonade, B.L.T.s, sour cream & onion chips and water melon and were on their way. They decided to go to the beach rite in front of their cabin. Nobody ever went there because they didn't know about it.
    As they approached the beach, they saw a mountain of rocks. As they got closer, they noticed a large crack in the side off the cliff face. They crawled through it. On the other side of the rocks, was a beautiful cove. Sitting on a rock a little ways out, was a girl that looked about seventeen or so.
    "Wow!" they said as they looked ate the aqua blue, crystal clear water. The girl heard them and leapt of her rock into the water. They heard the splash and looked up. Her head was all they could see as she swam out from behind the rock. Slowly she made her way towards them. As she got closer, Marina noticed something strange about the girl.
    "Alyssa," whispered Marina,"look!"

Something BIG, Black, and Fuzzy Comes Stampeding Our Way

Here is a short story I wrote. It is actually real. This did happen to me in exactly the way I described it. I hope you enjoy it!

Something BIG, Black, and Fuzzy Comes Stampeding Our Way

By: Rina Love

        Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! “What was that?!” I thought to myself as I sat up and turned to examine the thicket to the right of me. Something big, black, and fuzzy moved through the tightly planted, mini pine trees. The beast breathed heavily as he made a trail through the trees. I turned to face my dad, sitting with his back up against the base of the oak tree on the other side of the path. He turned his head to me and put a finger to his mouth as you would if you were to say “Shhh!”. I nodded and turned my head back towards the thicket, tightening my grip on my rifle just in case. The black beast shoved the trees aside as it marched onward towards the opening where my dad and I sat. I gasped as it broke through the thicket and came stampeding towards us...

Wait, let me start at the beginning…

          BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

 “Ugh.” I said sleepily and smacked my alarm clock to make the obnoxious noise subside. I rolled out of bed and marched sluggishly to my door and down the stairs to the kitchen. My dad was awake and packing up hunting gear. He looked up from his hunting pack and smiled.

          “Ready to go bring home a deer?” he asked excitedly.

          “I guess so.” I said rubbing the sleep from my eyes.

          “Hurry up and get ready to go because there isn't much time till daylight breaks.” he said going back to his packing.

          “Dad, it’s 4:00 in the morning! We have HOURS until daylight breaks!” I said as I continued my way into the kitchen. The concrete floor on my bare feet was cold and made me wish I had worn my fuzzy slippers.

          “We need to get out there before the sun hits so we can have a better hunt.” He answered without looking up. I rolled my eyes while I poured cereal and milk in a bowl for myself. Once done with the milk, I placed it in the cereal cupboard and the cereal I placed in the refrigerator. I started to walk away from the kitchen when I realized my mistake.

          “Ugh.” I huffed, spun on my heels and went back into the kitchen. Proves how tiered I am. I thought to myself as I swapped the milk and cereal.

          At about 4:30, we were outside, walking up our dark, half mile long drive way. About a quarter of the way up the drive way, we strayed from the path, known so well, and headed off into the dark forest.

          Me dressed in a warm camo jacket, thick mud boots, warm camo pants, an orange vest and orange hat, camo fanny pack carrying a rifle and my dad dressed in the same except for his orange back pack carrying his rifle, tromped through the forest until we found a four wheeler trail. We marched along that until we came upon two oak trees directly across from each other on either side of the path. I sat at one tree’s base and Dad sat at the other. I took out a banana from my pack and started chewing away.

          About 15 minutes went by before we heard anything.

          Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! “What was that?!” I thought to myself as I sat up and turned to examine the thicket to the right of me. Something big, black, and fuzzy moved through the tightly planted, mini pine trees. The beast breathed heavily as it made a trail through the trees. I turned to face Dad, sitting with his back up against the base of the oak tree on the other side of the path. He turned his head to me and put a finger to his mouth as you would if you were to say “Shhh!”. I nodded and turned my head back towards the thicket, tightening my grip on my rifle just in case. The black beast shoved the trees aside as it marched onward towards the opening where my dad and I sat. I gasped as it broke through the thicket and came stampeding towards us.

A huge cow moose with fear in its eyes marched uncomfortably towards me. I panicked slightly as it drew nearer and nearer until it was almost on my legs. It came so close that I knew it hadn't have seen us. If it had, it would have bolted away in the other direction. Dad made a loud kissing noise with his lips which drew the moose away from me slightly. It drew the animal away just enough to get it back on the path. I let out a heavy sigh of relief as it disappeared in the brush on the other side of the path. I looked back over at my dad who was smiling delightfully. I smiled back.

When we returned home that afternoon, my mother asked us about our hunt.

          “We didn't see any deer,” my Dad told her. “But we did have a moose come awfully close to Rina.”

“You did?” Mom asked me.

“Yes! It was a big cow! Something must have spooked her into the brush.” I answered.

“That sounds awfully exciting!” she said. “I bet you’re both starving now.”

‘Yes! Definitely!” I said. Dad nodded and we all made our way through the cluttered basement to the kitchen.

Time Rasers

Hello! So, since this is my story corner, I decided to post one of the stories I'm working on. I haven't made it very far but I hope you like it.

Time Rasers

Author: Rina Love

Prologue

    Have you ever been in an antique shop? You know the place where your mom stops you at the door and tells you not to touch anything because it's old and valuable. Then you go inside and touch things anyway. Well, have you gone and touched things and had the weird feeling of a fire starting inside you and warming you as it radiates through your muscles? If you have, then you’re a Raser like me.

    A Raser is someone who goes through time (typically the past) to retrieve items with magic in them. Before you go asking any questions, no. We don't drive race cars and have a crowd of people following us around. Here, I'll explain the process of Retrieving.

    Seekers are bookworms. They find the objects then send us, the Rasers, out to retrieve them. We get the objects and send them back for the Extractors. The Extractors are sorcerers. They extract the magic from the item and place the item in the Coliseum. The item can still hold magic if asked to. That's why we keep it.

    The Coliseum is where the Seekers and Extractors practically live. That's where all the items stay too. These items could be anything. They could be things from the past like a gas light, sword, shield, and crown. Or it could be something from the future. In all my 87 years, I've never seen anyone go to the future. It's very rare.

    Now, being a Raser isn't as easy as it sounds. You don't just use your magic power to go through time, grab the object and come back. That's just too easy. We don't have magic powers to time travel, we have to wear a special ring and say the time and place where we want to go. The ring doesn't always listen to the place where we want to go. It's always within the state though.

    Rasers don't always retrieve objects. Sometimes we have to retrieve people who have the potential to become Rasers, Seekers, or Extractors. Once you complete a test, you are given a ring to show what you are. It also helps you and gives you power. Here, let me explain my life of being a Raser...

#1 Becoming Retrieved

    "Jared!" called someone down the hall. I groaned, rolled over in my bed and pulled the blankets up over my head.

    "Jared!!!"Screamed the angry voice.

    "What?" I yelled back sleepily.

    "It's time to get up. You have school today." I pulled the blankets down and looked at my clock. It read 6:00_a.m.

    "It's too early." I mumbled and buried my face in the pillow.

    "JARED DAVISON!!!" my mother screamed. "GET...OUTA BED...NOW!"

    I let out a heavy sigh and threw back the covers. I sat up and swung my legs off the side of the bed. I rubbed my eyes so I could see clearly and stood up. I walked over to my dresser and took out a fairly clean pair of jeans, a red T-shirt and a pair of socks. I got dressed and walked over to my window. I pulled back the curtains and looked outside at the early autumn leaves. I shivered at the thought of walking out there in just my T-shirt and jeans. I turned to my bed-post, grabbed my black hoodie, threw it over my shoulder and walked out my door into the hall. The smell of bacon and eggs quickly caught my attention and I jogged into the kitchen. A plate of bacon, eggs and a side of toast with jelly and a glass of orange juice sat waiting for me on the island that separated the kitchen from the dining room.

    "Did you finish your essay for English class and complete all your math homework?" mom asked without taking her eyes of the dishes she was washing.

    "Good morning to you too." I mumbled quietly to myself.

    "Well did you?" she asked impatiently.

    "Yes Mum." I answered. Being a seventeen year old without a dad was a tough life. My dad died when I was five. I still remember waking up one morning and watching the news about a thirty-seven year old man named 'Todd Davison' was killed in an accident. An eighteen wheeler had hit an oncoming dump truck and rolled over onto my dad's car and crushed him. I remember crying and my mother crying. It took us about two years to move on. The accident had been in January during a blizzard. I had always been home schooled and my mom tried to continue it but, her trying to teach me and make money at the same time had just been too hard so she sent me to public school when I turned seven and she got a job as a nurse.

Peanut Comics

"I'm Bored" by Micheal Ian Black

I tried to find a way to post the whole book on here, but it was practically impossible. So, you'll just have to look it up! Click on the link below to view the book!

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Introduction To Blog

So, this my story corner where I will write short stories. I hope you like it!!!