Tyler spun gracefully upon his heels, greasy hair landing in a wild mess upon his shoulders. And all I saw was a silhouette.

We were both blinded by an extremely powerful flashlight. I blinked it off, and the blurs faded from my retina to reveal the true nature of our surroundings.

The room blossomed with passionate colours. Over old furniture and broken walls, I saw the paintings of many. Many who painted as one. There were innocent nymphs and open flowers, deepening darkness and wild demons. It was a great juxtaposition of art, as if the room was at battle with itself. A messy battlefield of colour. I gripped my pencil and pad of paper like a sword and shield.

I was overwhelmed. I didn't even react as the train finished thundering past, shaking every window's pane.

And what about my own pain?

We stood upon a blank edge, amidst the chaos. I could smell incense and turpentine. Somewhere, amidst the silence, was the familiar hum of a laptop computer.

The man on the staircase, still threatening to blind us lest I turn to gaze upon him, bellowed again; "Be polite, Ty. Introduce the newbie."

Tyler closed his eyes and opened his smile, looking towards the man on the stairs, "Is Shana up there tonight?"

The man with the light went from stern to monotone, deep, "Don't overwork that crush, Tyler. She's a dancer, y'know."

Overlit and blushing, I saw tears break past his shut eyes.

My senses returned, and then the light clicked off. I saw nothing, as the man's feet creaked upon the stairs. Then, there was silence. And in that deprivation, I could feel cracks at the edge of Tyler's heart threatening to break.

Empathy surged within me.

I leaned against him and gave him a hug. There were tears on my shoulders and within my hair; for a first, they were not mine.

He smelled of a flinty sweat.

Then, with utter abruptness, I felt him back away.

"C'mon," he whispered, "we have to be polite."

He said the word with such contempt.

I followed him towards the stairs.

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Dear fellow co-writers:
This story is to be as much yours as it is mine. Thus, feel free to recommend content for the Author Guidance. Nothing is written in stone unless it is recapitulation of what's already written.
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First-person narrative mode.
Please try and be descriptive.
Personally, I'm not focused so much upon plot as I am on character development and appealing to the reader's six senses.
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ABOUT THE NARRATOR

Our narrator is female. We don't know her name, the colour of her skin, her exact sexual orientation or much else yet.

She lives in a small town.

She's not the most honest narrator when it comes to her feelings; thus she has actually been raped in the past.

The story revolves partly around the first word on her page, and what it might have been.
Tragedy, tragic, tramp, trample; whatever it may be. If the contents of her notepad change, I will change them in the author guidance (see below).
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REGARDING CHAPTER TITLES

Keep them ending in 'light' or 'lite' please.
Use rhymezone.com if necessary.
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PROSPECTIVE IDEAS

Here are some things I think should happen in the story:

1. She gets greatly inspired and writes something significant.
2. She begins a more or less healthy non-platonic relationship with someone.
3. She encounters her rapist (she may not know who he is).
4. She has sex in a positive way.
5. She 'takes back' her virginity in some way or another.

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Now, this may be a cult. It may be a secret society. It may be a bunch of creative lost souls. Who knows.
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HER RELATIONSHIP WITH TYLER:
Right now, I don't know whether it's platonic or not. So, I don't have much to say about that.
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Here's what's currently written in her notebook:

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CHARACTERS LIST COMING SOON

updated Oct 30, 2008 by Dysphemism