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| First Draft | ■■■■■ 100% | A very successful stock broker, husband, and father of two loses his job. Due to the shattered economy of their planet, his diligent job hunting proves fruitless. To provide for his family he decides to take a chance, and pursue his lifelong dream of space trading. Their first trade is the house they've always lived in for a cargo ship. He and his family set out into the stars in their new home, leaving their beloved grandparents behind, unaware that the man they hired to pilot the ship is on the run from some very bad men. If they thought they had enough trouble adjusting to their new life and learning to turn a profit, they're in for a long haul. |
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| First Draft | ■□□□□ 20% | A boy goes to stay with his grandma for the summer since his mom works full time soon after his grandfather's death. Grandma tells him that she doesn't know where their cat goes all day, but that he only comes back in the house at the end of the day to eat. He investigates and finds the old cat goes to grandpa's old tool shed where he spent most of his time. Sometime later the cat never comes home and is discovered to be badly injured. The vet keeps him overnight and says he's been in a fight with a wild animal. Soon after the cat is home and felling better it goes out and doesn't come home again, but this time it can't be found anywhere. Our hero attempts to find the cat, and what has happened to him. |
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| First Draft | ■■■■■ 100% | A young man is left alone after his father dies defending him from slave traders who came through their village. Now he must journey back to his father's homeland to fufill a promise to bury his father among his family. Along the way he saves another boy from the slave traders, and becomes a man as he finds his way back to his father's homeland to meet his relatives for the first time. |
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| First Draft | ■■■■■ 100% | Sequel to "The Mysterious Puddle" With minutes before his last period lets out on the last day of school, time freezes for our hero. The only thing he can think to do is to go back in time to visit his friends in the past and see if they can help him solve the problem of time being frozen in the future. He discovers a special race of humans who play music to create the flow of time. Will he be able to find a way to get time to start back up again in the future? |
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| First Draft | ■■■■■ 100% | A boy follows his dog into a thick black glowing puddle to save him from drowning. This mysterious puddle plunges him back in time to a medieval village who's king has gone missing. What can he do to help these people who are nice enough to take him in and how will he ever get back to his own time? |
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