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The Call

It started out as a feeling

Which then turned into a hope

Which then turned into a quiet thought

Which then turned into a quiet word

And then that word grew louder and louder

Until it was a battle cry

Have you ever experienced how sometimes you get an idea and the more you try to ignore it, the bigger it gets? Until finally you have to sit down with pen in hand and listen to it? Yeah, that just happened to me.

I came up with the idea for this story when I was 12 years old and my grandma asked me and my brother to write a short story for our homeschool project. It was about 10 pages long, and very basic, no real plot (I didn’t even know what that was back then), atrocious spelling, and excitement was non-existent. For some unknown reason, I kept the story, stashed away and forgotten. A few years later I was going through my desk, and found the story. I read through it, and as I read, I thought, someday I could make a real story out of this. A few months later I began to consider a plot for it, but I never really did anything with it. And so the years went on, and the story lay quietly in my desk, but it was not forgotten, it was always there at the back of my mind.

Yesterday morning ideas suddenly began to explode out of nowhere! I had not thought about writing, much less, THAT story, for about a month! It was amazing!

Okay, I guess I will tell you a little about the story ;-)

It is set in Ireland in 1846-7, during the time of the English occupation and the potato famine. The main character  is a girl of 17, though she acts a lot older. Her mother is recently dead, and her father is away is the big cities looking for work. That leaves taking care of the other children, and keeping their home from the eager hands of the English landlords, all up to her. She gets some help from her childhood friend Aiden and her 12 year old brother. Everything starts to go wrong when she finds an English soldier wounded in a ditch.

Here are some pictures I found for a few of the characters

Main character

Aiden

English Soldier

The moral of my tale is… when one of those pesky little ideas keeps popping up, it is futile to resist.