Oh God, I found it!!!

The first novel I finished, in early high school - I must have been age 16. It's soooo weird (and terrifying) to read this thing. I did a deep keyword search in my backup hard drive. I must have owned 4 computers since then. It took like 4 whole minutes for my search tool to find it buried away. Yet there it is!

For everyone's intrigue and amusement, I will now post the first thing I see from this novel - its title and table of contents.

In case you're wondering, it's a post-apocalyptic anti-romance story... I'm not sure why there are 50 chapters...

Write, 16-year-old Elly, write!


Title:

The Unromantic Tryst of Ovid the Bland and Momoko the Sly

Contents:

Yes.

The Valor of Suds and Bubbles

Pumpkin and Nut

Meet Momoko

The Benevolent Nun

Zero Zero Cuey

Shopping

Momoko Makes a Stake

Home

Your Narrator

Enchiladas

Puppy

Thick as Thieves

The Jelly-Bubble Blue

The Last Grand Waltz of Man

Mayonnaise

The Sixth Tier

The Medicine-Box

On the Moon

Momoko Earns Her Keep

How to Bore a Boy at Bed Rest

Illumine the Darkness

Honey and Fury

An Allosaurus Meets His Match

A Very Chilly Dinner

Wet Season

Down the Egyptian Tomb

Physical History

The Loss and the Rescue

Nobility

Shots

The Girl

The Disgust Test

Built-Ins

Anny Sees Static

Foaling

The Undressing

Dissolve

Knit Together

Surgeon’s Whites

Olive

Ovid’s Story

The Final Faithful Noble Stand of the Zero Zero Cuey

Noodles and the Jockey

Christmas— for Four

Antitheses

Romantic Peccadillo

Sixth Tier?

The Wonderful Life of Momoko

Italian Wisdom

Scherzo

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