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 Arsène Lupin is a french fictional character who not many outside of France know. If you are french, however, you have most likely heard of him the same way we have heard about James Bond or Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes specifically is compared to Lupin a lot, however, they have one large difference. Sherlock Holmes solves mysteries, he is a detective, but Arsène Lupin is on the other side of the law, he is a gentleman burglar.     Arsène Lupin was introduced in a series of short stories in the Magazine "Je Sais Tout" in 1905 by the author Maurice Leblanc. Leblanc continued with his character and wrote many more books. In the next 36 years, he wrote 17 novels and 39 novellas about Lupin. He even wrote an additional 4 stage-plays about Lupin. Getting back to the Sherlock Holmes comparison, Holmes was featured in some of the Lupin installments (in some installments he was named "Herlock Sholmes" because of legal battles with Arthur Conan Doyle). Leblanc only stop...

This is a fanfic based off of Dave Pelzers, A Child Called It , The Lost Boy, and A Man Named Dave. These books are true stories based off of Pelzer's traumatic childhood. I decided to take the father character and create a fictional storyline based on his life  after he left Dave’s mother. This story isn’t told in the fathers perspective but is told from the perspective of the victim similar to Pelzer's books. In Pelzer's books the father is described as being a weak, frequently drunk father, who rarely stands up to Catherine Roerva Pelzer, his wife(the abuser in Pelzer's books) In my story because Stephen( the father) had no power in his previous marriage it leads to him seeking that validation and  becoming the abuser in his new marriage continuing the cycle of abuse he attempted to leave in his past. Abilene-  I remember the day I realized my life wasn’t perfect. The happy life my parents pretended to live began to fade. It was like a wallpaper peeling off of a wa...

     I was looking for a good read recently, and my mom recommended a series called "The Keepers", because it was written by a colleague of hers, Ted Sanders. This series is about a group of people known as Keepers, who have powers because of the magical instruments, called Tanu, that they possess. They face off against the Riven, who are corrupted and evil versions of long limbed, humanoid creatures called Altari, makers of the Tanu. These Riven have the intent of taking all Tanu from humankind, claiming that they belong only to their species. It is a series aimed at teenagers and it is a coming of age story. I suggest you read it if you haven't, because it really is a treat.     Anyways, I was burning through the series, and was hoping for something more to read once I was done. Out of the blue (thanks mom), Ted emailed me with a extra chapter from book one, which was cut during the writing process. Now this was exciting. The author of the series I was ea...