[Hailey comes in dancing, holding a thick stack of papers and a red pen]

    Hey y'all, guess what I just did for the first time? I finished my first real story! I'm sooo happy! It's actually just a short story, and the final word count is only 5,566 words, but that doesn't change anything, because it's finished and it's 18 pages long. (Random interruption: brackets look really cool. Just type them [brackets]. I mean, how could it get better?) Now I can finally begin the editing process. The story is now in the operating room and I'm cutting it up... with a red pen. I am really surprised at how much editing really needs to be done, and how many sentences and phrases and words just need to be taken out.

    But I guess only some of y'all know what the story is. Well, here you go:

    Title: Well, I don't really know what to call it, so I just call it Chloe.

    Setting: Chloe's dream

    Main Character: Sort of goes without saying...... her name's in the title

    What it's about: It's Christmas Eve and a little girl has a dream where some very bizarre characters give her very bizarre gifts. And....... I can't say any more or else I would spoil the ending. It's sort of like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

    I guess my whole description makes it sound sort of creepy, but it really isn't. I don't want creepy and weird. Weird is enough for me. It's funny, not scary.

    *~Hailey