My Cardboard Balcony

May 19th was the third anniversary of the day my girlfriend Arden and I met. May 23rd, today, is the third anniversary of my performance at the Whiskey A Go Go with my band the Castle Town Convicts - a performance that Arden attended. Tomorrow, May 24th, is the third anniversary of when Arden and I decided to become girlfriends. What followed was - and I can say this with utter honesty and without hyperbole - a real emotional whirlwind. Arden and I maintained a long distance relationship for two years. Throughout those two years, I went through a number of jobs, wrote two novels, got sick with mononucleosis, and continued to change as a person. For Arden, it was all about finishing college and enjoying each day of it before becoming a full-fledged adult. We were busy, anxious young women who were confident in usually just one thing - we wanted to continue being a couple, no matter how far away we were or how rarely we got to visit one another. In June of 2013, Arden graduated from ...

This is an untitled, unfinished novel that was technically left alone in late 2008. However, the last time it was modified and checked for errors was 2011, where upon I decided that the absurdity of the plot combined with the sloppy British research was too much for the story to continue. However, seeing as this is Whims of the Time Traveler, it's a perfect example of my first attempt at long fiction, so I've decided to unabashedly display it. Have fun. Untitled: Chapter One by Belinda Roddie Many live their lives averagely. It’s not a crime. In a perfect world, we’d all live perfectly average lives. We’d work. We’d play. We’d eat, sleep, sing, dance, and laugh. We’d cry, scream, and regret things. But in a perfectly average life, we don’t have to think too hard about what we do. We just do it. Such is the life many have dreamed of not having, but many others have desired it above all other things. Many who live normal, peaceful lives look at the complicated emotions of...

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