Moonlight
© 1995, 1996, 1998
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| Technical Aspects | |
| Story length: | 8,886 words/24 pages double spaced |
| Voice: | First person, present tense, use of past tense |
| Genre: | Speculative fiction |
| Copyrighted: | © 1995, 1996, 1998 |
| Story information | |
| Main character: | "Me"/Elizabeth Jean Darby |
| Character description: | A solitary cave-dwelling girl who's lived underground since she can remember |
| Supporting characters: | The Darby family: Nancy, Ed, Bill, Darrell, and Claudia. |
| Setting: | Modern time, a cave underground; also modern/rural living quarters |
| General Plot | |
| A girl who has lived in an underground cave since she can remember goes through her bag of memories and reminisces about when she once found a way to the outside world after an earthquake, and what it was like to be an "aboveground person" before she decided to go back to living in her cave. | |
| Information, inspiration, and other notes | |
| This story was written when I was in high school, as a response to an offer from the teacher to submit creative writing instead of having to do a critical report. It was written, in its entirety, in one sleepless night, and later edited and smoothed out (which explains the later copyright on it). I pondered the concept for a long time before actually writing it. My teacher never read it and "forgot" I'd submitted anything, and made me do the critical project, incidentally. | |
| Related Art: | [Sketch of main character] |
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