Story By A.R. Simmons
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A.R. Simmons

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I grew up in West Virginia. I discovered my love of writing in high school. My favorite thing about writing is the beauty of being able to create my own world on paper that allows others to see it also. It brings me joy, and I hope it does the same for others who read it.
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Writingcamp + The Shifter's Curse
Updated at Jul 28, 2021, 17:01
My goal is to achieve a signed contract with this coming novel. A young man who is half Indian, half white man grew up in a village amongst his family. He had never believed the stories that his uncle, the respected chief, had told to him as a child. The chief had spoke of the wonders and mysteries of nature. Peter was told about the great thunderbird that came with mighty storm. These tales were all fables to Peter, that is, until he was confronted by the enormous thunderbird itself. It came to punish him for his selfishness and arrogance that cost the lives of everyone and everything he held dear. This is the tale of Peter who was a greedy young man, cursed to walk the earth alone. He made terrible choices in his life leading him to the path he has no choice but to follow endlessly now. 261 years later he still lives as the same 17 year old young man, stuck, never able to move forward. The ancient and mighty thunderbird cursed him to be one with a nature that is now slowly disappearing because of man. Peter desires nothing more than to be free of his curse, to be human, to grow old with a family of his own. But instead, he can never age, have children, or die. The only way for him to be free is to right his wrong. But how is he able to do this when everyone he wronged is dead? Will he be doomed for eternity?
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The Vampire Zone
Updated at Jul 6, 2021, 16:58
What does it mean to be different? What would you do if you were faced with the fact that you were not human? Josie Johnson thought she was normal. Her world is turned completely upside-down at this new revelation that she is not. To add to the stress, her mother kept this secret from her all her life. Her mother is now dying of cancer in the hospital leaving Josie as the only one to fill her shoes. Josie is now responsible for her younger brother Emerson and her older brother Jason. Is she able to handle being responsible for her own family and home at a teenage age along with relearning herself and new abilities? On Josie's way to her first day of school, she runs into the most beautiful man she had ever seen (Alexander Morton). She is totally and completely in ahh of him. She is so enchanted with him that she was unable to control the rhythm of her own heart. She later discovered that Alexander and his remaining family are indeed Vampires. This makes Josie realize that there is more to the world she is living in than she originally knew. After coming to this new understanding, Josie feels more empowered to protect her family at all costs, but there are things she has yet to understand. Alexander becomes desperate to protect Josie when he finds out what she is. How do you think she handles all of this? Not to mention that there was apparently a murderer on the loose in her town. A mysterious stranger reappears in the area just around the time that the attacks begin. Is this strange man responsible for the killings, or is he there for a different reason? He continues to reappear near and around Josie and her family. Josie is comforted when she confides in her best friend (Bethanne Hall). She is horrified to find that by involving her friend, Bethanne is kidnapped by the very creatures Josie was trying to protect her from. Bethanne’s life is now threatened, and Josie will stop at nothing to save her from a horrible fate. When advised against it, Josie follows the family of vampires in pursuit of Beth and her deadly kidnappers into an area full of unknown mystical creatures and beings of the unknown world. She finds herself in the vampire zone.
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