The Darling Anteater
By Curtis McCarthy
I. Preface
Welcome to the retype of my new book! It is a web novel on Inkstone/WebNovel! I was instructed to release shorter chapters, and need to work fast in case I get contracted! So I will be releasing 1k-2k word chapters, which fans prefer! So I hope you enjoy this professional novel! It was part of a trio I released specifically for Inkstone/WebNovel's website I'm using! All three are themed. This one is a female-oriented web novel, and The Workhorse, my male-oriented web novel, is obviously male-oriented! My RPG game system web novel is a new one for the Vampire the Masquerade lovers out there! It's a better system and I had plans and a meeting to acquire the rights I needed for my VtM:B book, but I could not attend due to working and getting sick! So I also planned to have a back-up plan and have an original intellectual property handy! That would be why it is named Chronoclast and not Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, which would be a new system I was developing with the developers and myself. I really loved the pip system and concurrent and story-based gameplay that none the less was also completely deep in its combat system, and it is also really good at combining with other systems like the fun but kind of excruciatingly slow to play Exalted and the fun but manageable and a little tough to forget Dungeons and Dragons. This story is about a girl, and is focused on their story, but side stories and fan features should be able to give you even more to squee over! The main character, Reb, is strong, fast, and cunning, but is also just a normal kid growing up, like you and I all used to be, or are still, actually! I'm a doctor, and it speaks to me that people have a lot of feelings and memories of growing up, and getting older.
Chronoclast, while it has nothing to do with the other works, and neither do any of them interact, but maybe be focused on later as possible to occur, may become kind of awesomely named iChronoclast in the future. It' is a copyrighted name I created with a custom intellectual property I created also for the series I wanted to create. But I did also want to make that damn Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines book.
Anyway, that's the preface! It's time to start the retype!
Dedication
Dedicated to my mother, who is a strong woman, and raised me half all by herself, and half with my dad. Though we grew apart, she still loves and I love her back! - Curtis, The Author, The Darling Anteater
II. Table of Contents
I. Preface
II. Table of Contents
III. Chapter 1 - Wet Thorns
IV. Chapter 2 - Beginning Ends
III. Chapter 1
Wet Thorns
Rebecca walked into the chamberlain pool. It was large, and had a bright red duck sitting right on top of the cover! She closed it and took the duck inside. She did her homework and relinquished herself to the bedroom. She slept, but got up in the middle of the night to watch some TV! She watched Reading Rainbow because it was her favorite show as a kid. She finished watching TV and turned off the television but didn't turn off the cable box. This made sense, because it turned into an interesting situation later. She turned the TV back on and told her mom, who was inside the front door, but not quite out of it until just now, and there she was, that she was sick. She had been laying in bed but faked a fever by putting the thermometer inside a glass of warm water she had in her bedroom nightstand's cupboard-placement-center, called the commode. Actually, the whole thing might be called a commode, but she imagined that the top desk drawer was actually a fish, and she was out of it. She had work to get to. She wrote in her book, The Novel of Ace Longrale, and managed to write 32 new pages in it! This made it over 400 pages long! At exactly 492 pages long, it was finished! She took it to the market in town where there was a book editor office or something similar. The person in the back hand-traced it and put it up for sale. The copy in the store was an edited copy. It was all typed up on the computer in the back room. Rebecca, or Reb as she liked to be called with her friends, was a stunningly beautiful young woman. She had long black hair, which was actually brown, but in the sunlight it looked stunningly black as well as slightly purplish, because, because, and her nails were undone. She wore her favorite red dress and her black boots, which were made in Germany. She loved German culture and dreamt of going there some day. She made 92 cents a sale! The book was on sale for 72 days straight! She made exactly enough money to buy another book and produce a new one! This one, The Story of Alexander Harmony, was based on a true story. She made another 92 cents just suggesting it to her mother! Her mother found her book awkward to read. She asked Rebecca how she'd act in Alexander's shoes. She said she'd consider it only if they had omelets and waffles tonight, instead of the macaroni and cheese her mother was about to consider making them all suffer through again. She had made it wrongly last time, Rebecca considered, as it used two cups of milk and not one, like the directions say! She felt this was a problem that her mother could fix for her, if she was conscious enough of doing so. Her mother agreed and they had omelets and waffles instead of the macaroni and cheese she indeed would try not to make so wrongly the next time she made it. She planned to make it next week. She'd only use one cup of milk and follow the directions exactly, just like her daughter wanted her to. Rebecca continued reading her new book that she had purchased as well. While this meant she was out 92 cents, she also got it back again and a whole new copy of her book! She went back again to the old market place and asked the old man inside if he could draft her up a new copy. She had a new cover design she wanted to use. It was made by her friend Tiffany and she wanted it so used on the cover instead of the one she had picked, which was just a picture they had in the office drawer of a stained glass window and a flower arrangement. The flower was nice, but her friends picture fit the themes better. Rebecca and Tiffany wrote in Rebecca's new book for hours. They treaded new water, and found new tales to uncover. They walked into her moms closet and found three golf balls. They were mini golf balls, actually, and had come from the local mini golf park. They had went there numerous, or perhaps countless, times as young children. Now they went there alone. They went there themselves and asked the manager inside if they could play for free today because they were children. He allowed them to do so and got back inside before his TV show was interrupted by the commercial ending before he could see the next part of it.
They played in the kids only league as that was the one that was free to kids of all ages. They considered it odd that it put it that way, but they wouldn't want to be considered not of the right age to play today, right? So they played and Tiffany scored the most points, so that meant they didn't know who was the better mini golfer. The manager explained to them that the lowest scorer was better, because accruing points meant, in other words, that he didn't know. So whoever got the lowest par was better. He put it like that and they agreed that it seemed okay to call Rebecca the winner! Rebecca was happy and her friend was happy as well. Tiffany vowed to get better in the future.