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My editor finally got their manuscript. They want to have be do a real novel next. Like King. Also the club is still just me. Not much intrest in all things creepy. But that's fine. I like it that way.

I have to find a way to get back to Okinawa on the holidays. I'll just find some random job to work. I'm good at random jobs.

.... I'm not going to get any sleep for the next few weeks...well, any sleep to really be meaningful. They're coming out of the woodworks... Atobe...if you don't want massive headache...don't hang out with me for a while. You too, Hirakoba, unless you like ghosts and spirits and stuff more than you claim to...which is not at all.

Plus the Halloween issue deadline is upon me...I have the story ready and edited. I think they're going to give me the very front pages...That's a real step up in the literary world for me. I also have my costume picked out this year...

I'm going...as a normal person. In the latest fashion and totally trendy and in style...it will be frightening.

Today is the birthday of one of my more favorite authors. I've had a lot of ideas because of him. He started like I started, writing for a magizine. RL Stein. I know some science fiction author has his today too. Wrote something about sand... and spice worms and whatever. Don't care about him.

and in honor of one of my favorite autors, and because I just know that I have afan here, don't I, Hirakoba... another video..this is one of our few music videos.




(ooc: Because you know other than Mucc, there would be at least one Malice Mizer)

Hirakoba...my word as a man... I'll be wearing the sign. All day. First person who laughs at it gets my foot straight up their ass.

Rin...You must really not want to talk about it. Well, guess what. I don't care. I'll get what's wrong out of you eventually.

ooc: for those who aren't aware, Chinen challenge RinRin to a fight. If he won, Rinrin would tell him what was wrong. If Rin won, Chinen had to go around school all day with a sign around his next stating "I had my ass kicked by Hirakoba Rin". Crack stated he lose and wear the sign)

Happy brithday Atobe. I hope you enjoy your presents. You throw a pretty good party.

And because your little perfomance mane me nostalgic, I decided to post this. This is one on the first perfomrances Atropos ever had.



I was so young back then...

I think the Creative Writing teacher is going to be sending me to a counseler. I'm not too surprised. Not when I've decided to be lazy and turn in the stories that are going to be serialized. I can write more than just horror but I enjoy it very much. And I do find it helarious when a teacher takes me aside and asks me if everything is "okay" with me.

The cause for it, of course is this. A snippit from my latest.

( a bit of horror )

(ooc: pretend that Chinen wrote that because his mun fails at writing horror. It belongs to HP Lovecraft ^^ )

When do you want what I owe you? Because I was the "mysterious stranger" in the gossip rags... Oh, and I'm still going. Forbidden or not. You want to come, you can. Just watch yourself and don't blame me for the splitting headache

The Messenger

The thing, he said, would come in the night at three
From the old churchyard on the hill below;
But crouching by an oak fire's wholesome glow,
I tried to tell myself it could not be.

Surely, I mused, it was pleasantry
Devised by one who did not truly know
The Elder Sign, bequeathed from long ago,
That sets the fumbling forms of darkness free.

He had not meant it - no - but still I lit
Another lamp as starry Leo climbed
Out of the Seekonk, and a steeple chimed
Three - and the firelight faded, bit by bit.

Then at the door that cautious rattling came -
And the mad truth devoured me like a flame!


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There. I hope my editor is happy. I did the poetry like he asked. I suppose if I'm annoyed enough, even I will buckle under the status quo and sell out...but I'm nto too happy about it. I think I'm going to take my agression out of some nice practice dummies. And any idiot who pisses me off on the way there.

This weekend was rather eventful however. I went horseback riding. I think I might have scared everyone. I'm sure they thought it was the end of the world. Pale riding on a pale horse and all.

( screened to Atobe )

A little late in saying anything about it, but I've decided no more of that for me. for one, it's really silly. All those sheep all together doing crazy things because there it's socially acceptable to be just a little off... Either off key or out of their mind or drunk or all three. Though the one I got drunk... I did warn him about the strength of Okinawan versions of mixed drinks.

But someone recognized me from my time in Atropos, the Visual Kei band I used to be front man for. I guess without me, the gang went down hill fast. Lost their edge and their style to the wheels of the machine that is selling out. But it did make be a bit nostalgic for the music and the costuming and the everything that went into it. I can't believe I still have all that stuff. The makeup and the clothing. I even have the first Record we ever cut...in Higa High School's crappy AV room.

Perhaps, just for the hell of it, I'll do myself up for a day. It will mean another three showers to get all the stuff off me, but it might be worth it, just to do it.

(ooc: Sunday into Monday, Chinen is going to be walking around campus totally J-Rocked up. we're talking the whole nine yards, from the make-up and the hair to the tattoos showing and the clothing. feel free to poke fun at him)

Three days of hell... one of the three times a year I really don't do well. Probably why I was so pissed off about having to make an apperance. I'm sure I've utterly traumatized my roommate now, if not before, than with those three days.

But I got some good story ideas from it. Enough to last me a while. I wonder if for my writing minor, if I can remain in the genre I prefer or not.

My editor has been breathing down my neck for some time. It seems he wants me to make a public appearance to help promote the magazine. I write under an assumed name for a reason. I don't DO public appearances. It feels like selling out to me. I'd rather not do it at all and I'm afraid if he keeps bugging me about it, I'm going to punch him...very hard. It will be the fourth editor I've gone though in a year. Fine with me, I really don't like editors. I write what I want, when I want and I don't like them critisizing my work. Not that they do.

Stil, I have a meeting with them and I need to tel lthem that my serial might be a bit slower because I want to focus on my studies once break is over and school is back in session. And once school is back in session, I invite the insane, the curious, the morbid, and the morbidly insanely curious to come to the first meeting of the Mystery Club.

I managed to intimidate talk the faculty advisors in charge of clubs into allowing me to have the room I wanted and to start the club. and the first official club business... Hirakoba, your parents...if the offer is still open..I've got a new bio-chemistry set up I'm dying to try.

I found a great club room for my new mystery club. I found the this great old room in the basement of the chemestry lab. It's got a great atmosphere. If I didn't use it for a club, I might just use it for my own personal lab. In fact, I might just do that as well. So members of the mystery club, don't touch. You don't know what I might have brewing down there.

Also, I have a deadline to meet shortly. But I think I will send what I've known for. There is talk of a book deal, but I don't want to sell out. And speaking of books, I foudn the horror section fo the library was sadly out of all the good books. So I'm going to see if I can't get some of my collection here to the school. Because Lovecraft and King and Poe..there can never be enough.

All sorts of cluib to choose from. They have all the sports anyone could ever want. They have a lot of accidemic clubs too. I think they even have a club for making clubs. But the one club I would be interested in, they don't have. And so, I'm going to fix that. I am officially opening a Mystery Club, with or without the permission of the school. Why, because every school has seven mysteries, and every person has had one or two really weird things happen to them in life...like cursed tennis rackets or things of that nature. The goal of the club is to find these mysteries, find these people and solve them. Soulds liek a blast, doesn't it. Also sounds like it means I get to explore the campus more and learn all the dark corners of the school. So, offically, there will be a Mystery Club meeting on the quad just before dark every Wednesday until I can think of a better place and time.

Also, it would seem they would like me to join the Chemestry club. I might, only after I'm done playin gin the lab on my own. I wonder if I can convince everything I'm trying to make the Jekyll and Hyde potion.

( Hippy-sensei-san )

( Boss )

The mainland. Since I stopped with the tennis I haven’t even stepped foot back here. I’ve almost forgotten how much cooler it is. I wonder if I can skip winter classes all together and only go in the summer months. I doubt with my scholarships I can though. And speaking of scholarships, I need to remember to thank my last boss for hooking me up with this. Though if I don’t make it, he said that I can always come back and assist him at the morgue.

I wonder if there are any other people from Okinawa here. I think I thought I saw a familiar face when wondering campus.

I also need to let Macabre Monthly know that while I settle in, they won’t be getting anything from Kuro Kaito this month.