{"id":12409,"date":"2020-09-03T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/?page_id=12409"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:15:28","slug":"short-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/?page_id=12409","title":{"rendered":"Short stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p id=\"shortstories\" class=\"has-drop-cap has-dark-gray-color has-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I wrote many short stories as a teenager. Most were inspired by the life I knew and influenced by my favorite authors, including Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12412\" style=\"width: 209px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pencilcup-sm.png\" alt=\"Pencils\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background\">Some of the earlier stories have been lost, but these remain, so I decided to share them here. I call these <em>Tales from the mind of a teen, from notebook to screen<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background\">They have been updated for plausibility, because after all, nobody listens to personal cassette players anymore, and there&#8217;s little chance of seeing a Volkswagen Rabbit in anyone&#8217;s driveway.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background\">If I think of any more, I&#8217;ll add them. Thank you for visiting.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\r\n<table class=\"has-background has-fixed-layout\" style=\"background-color: #e7f5fe;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/?page_id=12461\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Out Crowd<\/a><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/?page_id=12430\" rel=\"nofollow\">Me and Kris<\/a><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/?page_id=12496\" rel=\"nofollow\">We&#8217;re All Friends!<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/drum-avatar-thumbnail-sm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote many short stories as a teenager. Most were inspired by the life I knew and influenced by my favorite authors, including Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary. Some of the earlier stories have been lost, but these remain, so I decided to share them here. I call these Tales from the mind of a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/?page_id=12409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Short stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12493,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12409","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12409"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18735,"href":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12409\/revisions\/18735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrummergirlslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}