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Since I'm having major writers block for TMITD but too much creative energy, I've channeled it into another project, at least temporarily.

Chasing Exemption

It's 1961, and to support herself and prepare for nursing school the subsequent fall, eighteen-year-old Holly Halliburton becomes a member of a very peculiar agency. They are called "The League of Bedside Sympathizers", or at least that is their official title, though nobody seems to know what it means nor where it originated. Her job? To provide solace and smooth the transition between life and death for hospital patients who have no living or reachable kin. Having successfully undergone four separate "transitions", serious, soft-spoken Holly feels as though she is prepared for anything the agency throws her way. That is, until she is thrust to the bedside of Simon Dalaigh, a melancholy, spirited and blunt young man dying from acute Cystic Fibrosis of the lungs. Their unusual circumstances eventually throw them together into a serendipitous roadtrip--a veritable scavenger hunt across Ireland to track down Simon's roots. As their joint yearning for liberation pulls them forward, it soon becomes clear that the transition between life and death might not be as simple as they had thought.

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*8-BitQuilter Dec 3, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
@_@ That sounds like an amazing plot idea.
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~L-dubz Nov 29, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
How do you START a story? I can get an idea down but starting is so hard and you do it so well!
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~CatchingFlight Nov 29, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I get excited when you put up a new story,but I get super excited when it involves Ireland! XD I also like the way you did your research,since Ireland actually has the highest rate of Cystic Fibrosis in the world. Anyways, i can't wait to read this! :)
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!Hullo-Doctor Nov 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
An excellent idea. So far, I love it. Will be following the story to see where it goes.
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*Peibee-an-Jay Nov 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you!
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~crashmypartyhard Nov 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
sounds like a wonderful idea! i'd totally go through with it. (:
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*Peibee-an-Jay Nov 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks! :aww:
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~crashmypartyhard Nov 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
no problem!
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~Captain-Grossaint Nov 28, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Kind of reminds me a little of Never Let Me Go, with the Carers and such, but much less creepy. XD
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*Peibee-an-Jay Nov 28, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
:XD:
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