Kathleen Newton

Hi Friends, Please enjoy the specificity of the homework organization system and the fact that I thought a fourteen-year-old girl would be the saviour of both the human and the fae world. *** I started school two days later, which happened to be Monday.  It was March, middle of the semester and I would be a novelty, the new girl from the big city.  Yippee.  Mom insisted on walking me to the school the first day even though I'm fourteen!  But even though it seriously ticked me off, I didn't complain.  I knew that mom was just trying to adjust to the fact that dad wasn't going to be around much anymore. Come to think of it, he'd never been around much when he worked in New York. The walk to school took about three minutes.  You could see the school from our house.  In my backpack I carried a packed lunch (the school didn't have a cafeteria, everybody ate their lunch in homeroom), seven binders in the colours of the rainbow, notebooks in the same colours, a big, multic

 Hi friends, Before you dive into it, yes I have changed the main character's name from Rachel to Miranda. I've changed a lot of the names from the original manuscript so I'll put out a legend at some point to mitigate confusion. And yes, I have changed locations from the real town of Bethel, which I have never visted, to the fictional town of Truite.  I'm still trying to figure out the balance of staying true to the original story and adding new stuff, so kept it short for this first chapter. Just trying to get a feel for the updated character. I don't want her to feel so far off from the original, just a better and more age-appropriate version of her.  If you read all the way to the end, let me know in the comments; where in the world do you think Truite is supposed to be? *** Leaving is always bittersweet, but Miranda felt less sadness than she expected when she packed all her things into boxes and handed over the keys to her one-bedroom apartment in Chinatown. S