Hidden Corners: A Project

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Back in May of 2007 I came across a LiveJournal community called 100originalfics. The idea is that a writer claims a world, setting, or character(s) from their original work and writes 100 stories/poems/whatever centering on that theme. The catch is that there's a prompt table containing 95 one-word prompts (and 5 "Writer's Choice"), and each story has to be based around one of the prompts.

I decided to take the challenge and write 100 stories about the characters in my trilogy, specifically things about the characters that don't appear in the trilogy itself. In other words: backstories, future stories, missing scenes, and other little hidden corners of the world and characters that would take too long to tell in the actual story. Because each character has his or her own full story and unfortunately the format of the novel means that I can only tell parts of them.

That's what you'll find here. This is an ongoing project, so I don't have all 100 stories yet, but I'm getting there. Since I've treated these as mostly writing exercises to make me get back into thinking about the world and the characters, they're unedited and of varying quality. Some I'm proud of, some you can tell I forced myself to write even though I didn't feel like it. I've listed the ones I've finished in numerical order according to prompt number, though they can be read in any order. Some I'm starting to loosely organize into separate series within the challenge, but I won't be able to put them into their final order until after the project is finished. This list will be updated as I finish the stories. All stories have a blanket rating of PG-13 even though most of them aren't even that high. The links lead to the original LJ entries, which are public. The full prompt table can be found here (external link).

001: Beginnings - Mynlai arrives at the Court of Jaharta.
002: Middles - Hopina knows something Atro doesn't.
003: Ends - Atro tests his limits.
004: Insides - It seemed to Merrus that humans would shove the entire world inside a building if they could.
005: Outsides - Sometimes we must walk our path and live with our choices alone.
006: Hours - One dream will forever be out of Lindjer's reach.
007: Days - It's important to remember.
008: Weeks - Hey, it could have happened.
009: Months - More of Edward's origin story.
010: Years - These are the people we never see.
011: Red - Merrus and Darmon argue. Again.
012: Orange - Atro and Martyn fight. Again.
013: Yellow - Jay runs away.
014: Green - Quann fights culture shock.
015: Blue - More Cheyti/Gyeth.
016: Purple - The places Edward is always most attracted to are the places where he's not allowed to go.
017: Brown - New recruits and, in retrospect, timeline weirdness.
018: Black - Merrus + Human society = HILARITY.
019: White - Hopina and her father have an awkward dinner.
020: Colorless - The difference between the living and the dead.
021: Friends - This is how Anthony died.
022: Enemies - Prequel to #008: Weeks.
023: Lovers - Naiddry flirts. Badly.
024: Family - Merrus's childhood sucks.
025: Strangers - Merrus is sort of over the part where he helps the royal family.
028: Children - It's Lastday. Can't you feel it?
029: Birth - Martyn develops a phobia to life.
030: Death - The aftermath of Atro's fire.
034: Not Enough - Hopina fails at being a spy.
037: Sound - The night Hopina has waited her whole adult life for.
040: Sight - Introducing Cheyti.
044: Circle - Salkiy story time.
045: Moon - Merrus and Atro and a little bit of religion.
046: Star - The life and times of Lindjer of Arkijt.
047: Heart - Edward seeks his dream and his fortune.
048: Diamond - Anthony is insane.
049: Club - Merrus still doesn't quite get what he's supposed to do in Jaharta.
050: Spade - Another day, another test of wills.
051: Water - Magic doesn't just grow on trees, you know. Or in rivers.
052: Fire - Merrus teaches Atro about fire.
053: Earth - Jay likes to brag a lot.
054: Air - Lindjer learns a lesson about cruelty.
055: Spirit - Jay made her decision long ago.
056: Breakfast - Insane men can't mend fences.
058: Dinner - Awkward dinners seem to be a bit of a theme.
061: Winter - Edward tells Merrus a story.
063: Summer - Cheyti and Gyeth's relationship is fraught.
064: Fall - Lord Shyrn has a close encounter with foreshadowing.
065: Passing - Martyn's father's funeral.
067: Snow - That depends on what your definition of treason is.
068: Lightening - What happened to Edward after.
070: Storm - Bloody nightmares and the uncaring cold of day.
071: Broken - Legends before and after.
072: Fixed - Jay corrupts the youth of the Court. Again.
073: Light - Mynlai's father doesn't like her grandfather. For some reason.
075: Shade - Lindjer knows the value of information.
076: Who? - Bediwyth angsts.
077: What? - Some rooms should just be avoided.
078: Where? - Close encounters of the salkiy kind.
079: When? - Mynlai should have realized her grandfather was nuts way before she actually did.
080: Why? - Edward's mother comes to visit.
081: How? - Hopina tries to bond. Atro screws it up.
082: If - This is how dreams go.
083: And - Companion piece to 0025: Strangers.
084: He - Edward always moves on.
085: She - Elligia says goodbye to Merrus with a warning.
086: Choices - One time Merrus didn't die.
088: School - Merrus's childhood sucks some more.
089: Work - Atro tries to find a place to hide. Merrus isn't helping.
090: Home - Of course it's about Edward. It's irony, see?
091: Birthday - Hopina: the story of her life in 1500 words.
092: Winter Holiday - Atro wants to have a party.
093: Thanksgiving - In which there's no giving and little thanks.
094: Independence - Jay never wanted to be free.
095: New Year - Merrus and Jay bond. Kind of.
096: Writer's Choice #1 - The future history of all that was.
097: Writer's Choice #2 - Hopina thinks she has Edward tamed. She's kind of right.
098: Writer's Choice #3 - The Prophecy.
099: Writer's Choice #4 - One time Merrus did die.
100: Writer's Choice #5 - A future that never happened.

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