THE GUIDELINES

Please e-mail me your stories as attachments at FlareHiggins@yahoo.com. The Union website has all the general story guidelines--in short, please include the title and author(s), a quick summary, the main character(s), the year(s) it takes place, and any necessary warnings. Here at Greenwich Village, unfinished stories ARE accepted; please just try your best to update them regularly. I've seen many an old lodging house full of nothing but short beginnings, and it's downright sad!

Finally, because I'm not a fan of the traditional ratings system, I've blatantly stolen (and slightly modified) a special warnings system from the old Astoria Lodging House. Please include the following warnings (if necessary) when you send in your story:

V - Violence

S - Sexual content

R - Rape

L - Language

DU - Drug Use

DT - Disturbing themes (This is obviously very broad, so feel free to specify.)

If you like, these warnings can each be used along with one of the following: M for "mild" or S for "strong/serious." So for example, if your story includes mild violence and graphic sexual content, it could include the warnings MV, SS. If your story does not require any warnings, please write "No warnings" at the beginning so I know you didn't just forget them. Your story will not be posted otherwise.

 

THE STORIES
Crime for Crime

 By Illusion

Summary:

Characters: Ravenna

Year:

Warnings: V, L, DT

 

The Road from Here

By Ryder

Summary: Mole has a tendency to live in the future. Rider keeps his head in the past. But with a new beginning, and some new friends, maybe, for once, the Brogan siblings can manage to find happiness in the present.

Characters: Mole, Rider

Year: 1899

 

What's in a Name?

By Peep Shakespeare

Summary: Peep asks Stage to tell her a story about herself. Stage complies, running through her past to explain how she became Stage.

Characters: Stage, Peep

Year: 1899

 

Leaving Home

By Scribble

Summary:

Characters: Scribble

Year:

 

To the Waters and the Wild

By Stress

Summary: Welcome to New York, thought Kit, where the fairies are more than little men in green vests – they wear more rouge for a start – and the waterfalls are nothing more than grey rivers teeming with sludge. Welcome to New York. Welcome home. The story of Kit Harding, from a small village in Ireland to the day she moves into the Greenwich Village Lodging House.

Characters: Kit

Years: 1898-1900

Warnings: ML

 

 

 
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By the time Footsteps finally shuts up, it's pitch-black outside the window, and your eyelids are drooping. For hours now, you've been hearing the front door slam open and shut, followed by voices and laughter as the newsgirls come home from selling and troop upstairs to the bunkroom. Blushing furiously when she realizes just how long she's been talking, Footsteps gets up and briskly announces that it's really time you both joined them.