Fifties Stories

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world? [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. There are some friends you never forget. It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't-open, kind, and accepting. Armed with two bikes and an unlimited supply of root beer floats, Ethan and Juniper set out to find their place in a town that's bent on rejecting them. As Ethan is confronted for the first time by what it means to be black in America, Juniper tries to help him see the beauty in even the ugliest reality, and that even the darkest days can give rise to an invincible summer . . .

brief synopsis: Ricky and Noah soon become rivals when Noah joins the school kid year, being a queer kid in the fifties and in a new environment then he's used to proves to be challenging. Ricky finds every way to test Noah's boundaries, leaving Noah to despise him.. but lost in thought maybe hate and annoyance isn't all he feels for Ricky.. their relationship as peers is extremely complicated but he feels something else bubbling under the surface that he can't quite pin point.

wherein violet sutcliffe and her brother's charming bandmate acquaint themselves in rainy liverpool days. ( THE BEATLES ) ( PAUL MCCARTNEY X FEM!OC ) © RENÉE, 2021

(PREVIOUSLY TITLED "BARBARA MARILYN") When best friends Erin and Jamie hear noises in the costume room of their high school's theater, it leads the girls into an investigation to find the truth. As the girls uncover the dark secrets of their school's past and struggle with their fears, beliefs, and the near-destruction of their friendship, they'll learn the hidden truth about everything - and everyone - they know. :: This was written in November 2014 as a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). It is far from perfect as it was written in 24 days, but I am very proud of myself for finishing the month with a story that I genuinely like. I'd love to hear your comments and constructive criticisms. Thanks! ::

Some short, song based stories...

what happens when dodie is transported to the 1950s?

Could it have happened? Or did it really happen? Answer these questions for yourself after you’ve read "The Three Dollar Phoenix". Doctor Ed Bennett meets with an old college buddy and his life is changes forever. He abandons his work at his urban health clinic and embarks on a mission that requires him to confront powerful people. This sports related mystery will keep you turning the pages (electronically of course). Do good guys always win? Do bad guys always lose? Read "The Three Dollar Phoenix" and you decide.

Some time ago, I decided to write a novel about a hapless singer who was granted the chance wipe 10 songs from history and claim them as his own. They only downside was that he would have to face the consequences of the lyrics of the songs he chose. The idea was you could wander in anywhere and it would all come together. It didn't work. I wrote the intro and a few stand alone stories that had no way of being crowbarred into the attempted novel. One of them was 'Waterloo Sunset' this is another. Sometimes my personal favourite. A luckless singer would be actor in NYC in 1955 stumbles across the love of his life. This is their joyous life together, or is it?

A completed story I wrote as a teenager back in 2003 about time-travelling back to the fifties and finding Cliff Richard.

Six twelve-year-old best friends go on one crazy adventure in search of a dead body in the summer of 1959. On the weekend trip, they learn lessons that will last a lifetime and create a bond that'll never bend.

Charlotte is just your average woman in the 1950's just trying to make it in life. But when she gets the chance of a lifetime to fly to Paris without having to pay the expenses, she ends up crash-landing in modern-day Ohio. Right back where she started but sixty-eight years later. How will she figure out her way in 2018, but even worse, how will she get home?

Elouise is quiet, neat and a good little girl - the exact opposite, it seems, to the new part of Liverpool that her family has moved to. Will Elouise stay her usual self under the influence of giggly school girls, ranting teachers and most importantly the rock n roll loving John Lennon?

Jones has never understood why she always has to fight everything. She has to fight her teachers when they don't give her the grade she deserves, she has to fight her sisters' boyfriends when they're being scamps, and she has to fight the whole world for being who she is; not just another housewife. She's gotten quite good at fighting, actually, and important people have started to notice.

#912 in Science Fiction, once. Rangers Red, Blue, Yellow and Green of S.T.A.R. Squad Zeta-Twelve are on a mission to reclaim a remote munitions factory from a massive biomechanical failure. Just another ordinary day for the Rangers in this whiz-bang throwback to 1950s sci-fi! You Know Who You Are - Be A S.T.A.R.!

My name is Alice and I wish I could tell the man I love that I'm from the future.

Weeks after Brown vs. Board of Education, a fictional Tennessean town destroys black homes and enforces a mandatory curfew for African Americans in the town, forcing many to leave when the sun shall fall on them. Except one, who finds asylum in the home of an old friend.

My entry for JDWesson's Strings of Fancy Writing Competition. :) Enjoy. ........... Jolene Detective Sydney, Australia 1950s