Week - 541 Claare Should Be Grateful... by dewdropzz

Description: The only thing I don't like...

Week - 566 Claare's List Of Underappreciated Neopian Heroes by dewdropzz

Description: Today I would like to draw attention to these people, with hopes that they'll soon be recognized for what they've done, and continue to do.

Week - 569 Love Builds A Robot by dewdropzz

Description: All is quiet in Neopia at 6:30 am. It's Sunday morning, the sun is just beginning to rise and at this hour, most Neopians are still asleep. Not you, though.

Week - 576 Half Baked by dewdropzz

Description: "Nonsense! It's never too cold to swim. As long as you're in an indoor pool."

Week - 578 Ready To Give by dewdropzz

Description: Couldn't the bad weather have waited until after the Day of Giving?

Week - 586 A Faerie Like Me by dewdropzz

Description: I couldn't stop thinking about the day I met the famous faerie. Do you remember, diary? It was last summer, shortly after we moved to Meridell....

Week - 588 Claare's Wonderful Things To Do With Neggs by dewdropzz

Description: What's not to love about the mysterious and incredibly interesting objects with a remarkable resemblance to eggs?

Week - 594 Maeryc and the Wishing Star: Part One by dewdropzz

Description: Wooden cutlasses clashed. Heavy boots stomped through the late spring snow of Terror Mountain. Captain Fearless, the most notorious seven-year-old pirate in the world, was engaged in a raging battle against his arch nemesis, the dreaded Captain Red Head.

Week - 595 Maeryc and the Wishing Star: Part Two by dewdropzz

Description: "It makes sense, I suppose," she thought. "I lived in the sky all my life, and you could see everything from there. But I never saw a petpet that could actually talk to a neopet."

Week - 598 What I Love About Bob: Part One by dewdropzz

Description: He's Bob the plushie warf, and he's my very own petpet. Seeing as it's Petpet Appreciation Day, I figured it was about time I showed Bob how much I appreciate him.

Week - 599 What I Love About Bob: Part Two by dewdropzz

Description: Bob got bored quickly. I actually thought he was asleep, sprawled out there on the grass, until I saw his tail wag, and his ears perk up. "What do you hear, Bob?"

Week - 602 My Friend the Cupcake Faerie by dewdropzz

Description: "What in Neopia is a cupcake faerie?" "A faerie who makes cupcakes, obviously."

Week - 685 Mother's Balloon by dewdropzz

Description: She jumped for it... That was the day Reyela's life changed.

Week - 686 Mother's Balloon: Part Two by dewdropzz

Description: The sky was so blue it was blinding. Or perhaps it only seemed that way to a girl whose eyes were not used to seeing colour so vibrant and pure.

Week - 687 Mother's Balloon: Part Three by dewdropzz

Description: Reyela hoped she didn't make the wrong decision by calling out to the Kougra. She had acted so impetuously. What would she say when the Kougra asked where she had come from?

Week - 688 Mother's Balloon: Part Four by dewdropzz

Description: The walk to the barn from the Worthington's house was quite a long one, down a winding dirt path, over hills and past the corn field. For as long as the journey was, it could never be long enough for the scarlet Draik who knew that her worst nightmare was waiting for her at the end of the road.

Week - 689 Mother's Balloon: Part Five by dewdropzz

Description: "But how will I live without you? If you cannot stay, then I must go with you."

Week - 690 Mother's Balloon: Part Six by dewdropzz

Description: The startled Vacana calmed down in an instant when he heard the sound of his owner's voice. He perked up his ears and trotted over to the Kougra, his stubby tail swishing back and forth like a Dogelfox about to get a treat

Week - 691 Mother's Balloon: Part Seven by dewdropzz

Description: The Worthingtons went to work, but their houseguest remained in her seat. She did not try to help this time around, and she wondered if she ever would again. Her hands hurt too much to hold a knife to slice cheese or butter bread, and even if she was able to carry her own plate to the table, she would probably just drop it and smash it on the floor, and then everyone would step on the pieces, and would end up dropping their dishes as well.

Week - 692 Mother's Balloon: Part Eight by dewdropzz

Description: Joyful sounds of laughter were carried in on the wind, but it was the wafting smell of a chocolate cake baking slowly in an oven that awakened Reyela's senses, and alerted her of the fact that the day had started without her.

Week - 693 Mother's Balloon: Part Nine by dewdropzz

Description: Reyela looked from Kougra, to Kougra, to Yurble hoping for an explanation of the oddness that was unfolding before her eyes. She was provided with nothing of the sort, until the party began to move again and she got to speak to Medis.

Week - 694 Mother's Balloon: Part Ten by dewdropzz

Description: The blue Yurble turned with a jerk, catching the brown Kougra red-handed. "Paws off!" she barked, snatching the tube out of his hand. "Look what you've done now. I barely had enough as it was!" "Nonsense, you've got plenty there." He shook the yellow tube upside-down, and shrugged his shoulders when he felt nothing inside. "Listen Midge, I'm worried about Reyela tonight." he said, announcing the purpose of his interruption.

Week - 695 Mother's Balloon: Part Eleven by dewdropzz

Description: "Meat pie, meat pie! We're having meat pie! Ma's having meat pie, Pa's having meat pie! Caleb, Medis and I are all having meat pie!" "Bettina, have I ever told you I know a surefire way for you to bring world peace?" "Aw, don't say it." Caleb chastened Hannah, who was holding her ears and groaning. "It's her birthday, she should be able to sing if she wants to."

Week - 696 Mother's Balloon: Part Twelve by dewdropzz

Description: Reyela ran into the wind, her bare feet sinking into the moist ground with every lunging step she took. She had left the Worthingtons' house in such a hurry that she had forgotten to put on her shoes. She supposed they would always have them now. They could keep them at their front door, and look at them from time to time in remembrance of the girl whom's heart they won, and then tore apart with their lies and hidden truths exposed.

Week - 697 The Discovery of Brightvale -- A Celebration by dewdropzz

Description: Splendid banners of green, white and gold hang proudly in every doorway. Tapestries and all manor of decoration imaginable adorn the walls of every hall. A grey Kougra in a smart black suit walks through the halls of Brightvale Castle, his dress shoes clicking on the cobblestone floor with every hurried step he takes. As he rounds a corner, he slows his feverish pace, and takes a moment to re-collect himself at a large, wooden door.

Week - 711 The Bag: Part One by dewdropzz

Description: Every window of every shop sparkles with red and green lights, candy canes and artificial snow. There's a Christmas tree in the doorway of every business building I pass, and even big box stores are hung with lights; large inflatable holiday characters on the roofs of many of them, waving at shoppers in the month of Celebrating wind, sending them subliminal messages to come in and buy.

Week - 712 The Bag: Part Two by dewdropzz

Description: I jump out of the carriage and scan the area for the driver. I find the orange Acara laying face down in the snow under the wheel of the carriage. "Oh no." Alice climbs out of the carriage after me. She watches as I pull the Acara out from under the wheel, and try to turn him over. I heave a sigh of relief when I discover he's still breathing, and seems to be in stable condition, other than the fact that he's unconscious.

Week - 738 Child's Dream by dewdropzz

Description: Blue. As far as brown eyes can see. Azure. Cerulean, sapphire, aquamarine. Ultramarine. It is everywhere. It surrounds her, envelopes her, embraces her. Or is she, in fact, in the midst of it? Or is she in front of it, or... behind it?

Week - 762 The Most Significant Gifts We Never Give by dewdropzz

Description: With your eyes half shut it looks like stars, flames in a forest sky, scintillating like candles warm in a window. Some are close to one another, nearly overlapping, while some are father apart, forming neat rows that are never perfect, but almost; horizontal and vertical. They form many constellations, if you look hard enough.

Week - 794 There Goes That Man and His Kite! by dewdropzz

Description: It's a particular interest in society, a hankering to learn about people, as individuals and how they interact, how they view others and how others can influence them. I have a notebook where I will be recording my findings, and, now, I have a red kite.

Week - 795 There Goes That Man and His Kite!: Part Two by dewdropzz

Description: It wasn't just the colour that gave them their depth. They looked like ponds Art by chasing_stars44

Week - 796 There Goes That Man and His Kite: Epilogue by dewdropzz

Description: Perhaps this was meant to be the slightly-less-than-grand finale of my adventure. Perhaps it was time for me to bring my kite-scapades to a humble close. Art by chasing_stars44

Week - 800 Claare's 800 Reasons for Sending Fanmail by dewdropzz

Description: A shoutout to all the contributors...

Week - 802 Usuki Singing Stars #41: Go and Fly a Kite! by downrightdude

Description: "Did you see that man with the flying diamond toy?"

Week - 803 Ballindalloch by dewdropzz

Description: When Avery Larkin, a headstrong and adventurous young girl, moves with her family to the 154-year-old Meridellian estate, Ballindalloch, she becomes at once entranced and embroiled with the past. On a quest to learn more about the house's original family, Avery sets in motion a series of extraordinary encounters, both horrifying and edifying, and discovers the past may not be as distant as she once believed..

Week - 804 Ballindalloch: Part Two by dewdropzz

Description: It didn't occur to Avery until much later — three or four days later, in fact — that it didn't matter in the slightest whether the house's original family was nice.

Week - 805 Ballindalloch: Part Three by dewdropzz

Description: Her bedroom still had pieces of flowered yellow wallpaper clinging to it, and as far as Avery was concerned, this was as good a reason as any to assume that her room was the last to have been worked on before the family had left.

Week - 806 Ballindalloch: Part Four by dewdropzz

Description: Albert, my good friend, tell me; could I ask you a question?

Week - 807 Ballindalloch:Part Five by dewdropzz

Description: When his daughter said 'ghost', he had thought she was joking.

Week - 808 Ballindalloch:Part Six by dewdropzz

Description: The twentieth day of the month of Hiding marked two weeks and four days since the Larkins had moved into the Meridellian estate, Ballindalloch.

Week - 809 Ballindalloch:Part Seven by dewdropzz

Description: Her dreams last night consisted of soccer, a thousand people thronging her backyard, cold lemonade and colder coffee, and Mr. Konishi. All the events of the previous day seemed to play over and over in Avery's head, as if they were a Neovision movie being rewound, fast-forwarded and rewound, and started over again.

Week - 810 Ballindalloch: Epilogue by dewdropzz

Description: Kenneth, Avery's Knowledgeable Shorter Mover White Scorchio Friend who'd Once Choked, lived in Albat Court. It shouldn't have surprised her, really, as Whittaker was a very small town.