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The Master Storyteller 2020-2021 Over the course of a school year, the Master StoryTeller class taught us how to write a wide variety of entertaining and enjoyable short stories using well-known writing methods. The final collaborative story titled “The Five” was conceived by Mr. Jenkins, Zak Lyon and Jody Lyon, which tested our creativity in…

Signature Series Orphaned and living hand to mouth, Jimmy Small is one of hundreds of boys working Newspaper Row near the dangerous Five Points intersection, a nexus for gambling, alcohol and brawls in the summer of 1907 New York City.At night, Jimmy dreams of owning his own newsstand. Sleeping in a garbage-littered alley, he awakens…

The Master Storyteller 2017-18 Six students from the CHESS program Master StoryTeller class of 2017-18 in Manassas, Virginia, welcome you to explore their 37 short stories. A fan-favorite sword fight. Atmospheric experiments with tone and mood. A realistic and compelling research-based story. An unexpected collaborative story planned in only 30-minutes, and written, as a group,…

The Master Storyteller 2017-18 Six students from the CHESS program Master StoryTeller class of 2017-18 in Manassas, Virginia, welcome you to explore their 37 short stories. A fan-favorite sword fight. Atmospheric experiments with tone and mood. A realistic and compelling research-based story. An unexpected collaborative story planned in only 30-minutes, and written, as a group,…

The Master Storyteller 2010-11 The Master StoryTeller class of 2010-11 from Gainesville,Virginia, welcomes you to explore their year of writing shortstory fiction. A fan-favorite sword fight. Contemporary fiction. A 100-wordcontest. Cautionary tales about making deals with the devil.Alien worlds and alternative perspectives.It’s all right here. It’s all student work. It’s all fun.Enjoy!

Newsboy Empire Orphaned and living hand to mouth, Jimmy Small is one of hundreds of boys working Newspaper Row near the dangerous Five Points intersection, a nexus for gambling, alcohol and brawls in the summer of 1907 New York City.At night, Jimmy dreams of owning his own newsstand. Sleeping in a garbage-littered alley, he awakens…

Treachery On The Great Lakes Orphaned at the age of fifteen, Nat Morton finds work as a longshoremen on the Chicago docks in 1899. Before his father’s untimely death, they had traveled regularly on a lumber barge across the Great Lakes. Now, Nat yearns to become a boat pilot. With the mystery of a lost…

A City Of Lies Christine Thompson and Adam Vestry are Providentially reunited four years following their first adventure in The Invisible Empire. The year is 1876. Chicago, just five years after the Great Fire, continues to rebuild its reputation as Queen of the West. The nation stands on the threshold of greatness, and a hope…

Invisible Empires Josiah Washington, a sixteen-year-old former slave, longs to experience the true meaning of freedom in 1870’s Philadelphia. An act of kindness sets Josiah at odds with ADAM VESTRY, the seventeen-year-old son of an influential white newspaperman who is secretly plotting to bring the Ku Klux Klan into the North.Deeply hurt and frustrated by…

A Trail Of Tears Daniel Sweetwater is a sixteen-year-old Delaware Indian living with his preacher father among the Cherokee in 1838. He and his father are forced to march with the last remnants of the Cherokee nation on a 1000-mile journey from their homes in Georgia to a reservation in the Oklahoma Territory. Cruel men…