Stardust Stories One Year Ago

These are stories that appeared on Stardust approximately one year ago today. They're listed for a 30 day period starting around a year ago from today's date.

The Gift

Submitted by Kristine Roland on 2011, January 9 - 12:45pm

Melissa has one last gift to give her father.

The Gift
by Kristine Roland

Edited and proofread by Angela Rasch


Lucy and the Ghost

Submitted by Kristine Roland on 2011, January 9 - 12:52pm

What do you do when you discover your new house is haunted by a transgendered ghost?

Lucy and the Ghost
by Kristine Roland

Edited and proofread by Angela Rasch


Grace

Submitted by Andrea DiMaggio on 2011, January 9 - 8:48pm

Grace


Gaby: BOOK 2 Summer Girl*Part 62*As Girls Go

Submitted by stanman63 on 2011, January 12 - 2:58pm

It was just gone nine when my brain registered consciousness. First day of the holidays! Mum's home!

"Okay Carol, I'll see you in an hour, bye" Mum was just finishing her call when I surged into the kitchen.

"Morning Mum, why didn't you wake me?"

"Morning Drew, I thought I'd let you sleep in, what are you doing today?"

"Hadn't given it much thought"

"Well I'm going to see Carol, Maddy's mum this morning, how about we go for a ride this afternoon?"

"Yeah that'll be excellent!" the cog's whirred, "can I come to the Peters with you, I need to talk to Maddy."

"I don't see why not, Carol and I are going into Mansfield, on our own, so don't even ask"

"Where's Jules?" I asked


Alchemy and Essence

Submitted by Laika on 2011, January 13 - 4:40pm

An old man on a flight up the California coast tells the young stranger sitting beside him about a famous movie villain that had lived next door to him when he was a boy. An actor who was known for playing mad scientists and vampires, but in real life had been a remarkably kind and gentle man. And while his fame hasn’t endured the way Boris Karloff’s has, at the time even movie critics who panned the films he was in admitted that this startlingly ugly man brought a rare sensitivity to the types of roles he specialized in, as if he knew these monsters’ private pain.

Then the teller’s story takes a strange left turn. Claims about the actor’s suicide that---as preposterous as they might sound---would be nice to believe. That rather than drowning himself on that rainy day in March of 1941, Max Grosz had found his way to a second chance at life, and a very different sort of acting career that would win the hearts of a nation...

ALCHEMY AND ESSENCE
Laika Pupkino ~ 2011

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“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death…”
~~Werner von Braun


Soul Mates

Submitted by Kristine Roland on 2011, January 14 - 4:15pm
Soul Mates
by Kristine Roland

Edited and proofread by Angela Rasch


The Class Reunion

Submitted by Andrea DiMaggio on 2011, January 20 - 4:03pm

 

The Class Reunion

by Bronwen Walsh


Gaby:BOOK 2 Summer Girl*Part 63* Tracking

Submitted by stanman63 on 2011, January 20 - 6:00pm

When I got home, the house was in turmoil. Dad was hoovering like crazy and Jules was busy dusting.

"You're back then" Jules stated flatly

"Yeah, what's going on?"

"Mum's back tomorrow?" she told me

"I know"

"The place is a mess so we're cleaning"

Now don't get me wrong here, our house is not exactly a palace, nor is it a pig sty - and Mum is hardly the house-proud type either! In fact since she's been in Germany the place has been tidier than usual, we've had a cleaning rota and apart from a bit of surface mess, magazines and stuff, it's looking pretty good.

"Drew?" Dad stopped the vacuum

"Yes Dad"

"Can you have a go 'round the kitchen"

"I spose" I replied unenthusiastically


Kristen

Submitted by Karen Beth on 2011, January 24 - 7:43pm

A young boy must dress as a giorl for a school play. When he and his mom take it a step further, his dad sentences him to a summer as a girl.


In Your Wildest Dreams

Submitted by Andrea DiMaggio on 2011, January 29 - 8:53pm

 In Your Wildest Dreams

 
I wonder where you are
I wonder if you
Think about me
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams



Oh Where Oh Where Could My Baby Be

Submitted by stanman63 on 2011, February 5 - 7:50pm

Oh Where Oh Where Could My Baby Be


The Cost

By Stanman63

Edited By JennaFl and Nora Adrienne



Synopsis: When a young man falls in love with a Trans-Girl, A Transphobic pastor begins a hate campaign that ends in tragedy and triumph as death leads to a new life.		  

 

My name is Lars Micheal Anderson and am about to graduate from Sanford University with a PhD. in Psychology. I will be working with the Transgendered Community to honor my dead girlfriend Katrina Leona Stewart who's Love for me led to my redemption and return to God.

 


Miracle of Science

Submitted by maeryn lamonte on 2011, February 9 - 9:10am

It was humiliating. I mean bad enough that I should find myself made redundant after nearly thirty years of nearly continuous employment. Worse still that all the skills I’d built up in my various meanderings through the great career archipelago were considered insufficient or irrelevant to whatever challenge that latest pipsqueak, fresh out of college, prospective employer wanted me to face.

 

In a way it was my own fault. Most people I knew had chosen to stick with one career, had worked hard and had specialized. That was the thing these days, businesses didn’t want all-rounders anymore; they were only interested in applicants who had twenty years’ experience in advanced widget shuffling or whatever nonsense. My own life had seen me bounce from one career to another like a pinball caught between the bumpers.