Tentatively named Little House of Trinkets , this story is about a girl named Jem Jangle, whose father is killed in an oil tankard explosion. Her friend and next-door neighbor, Gadd Frup had a father who was also on the tanker. In his hurry to leave for the dock when he was told something had went wrong with the tankard, he forgot to douse out the fire. While he is gone, a spark flies out and burns down the house. Jem automatically invites Gadd and his younger twin brothers, Kale and Jit, to live with her.

On the outside, the house looks like any other house on the street: A bit dilapidated. On the inside, though, the house is an oddity, perhaps a reflection on Jem’s late father. Each room is lined with shelves, shelves containing trinkets of all sizes; some are music boxes, bottles, machine gears, carvings, blankets, dolls and toys. To Jem her house is nothing unusual, just a house. The only thing intriguing to her was her father’s secret area- a place which her dad kept under lock and key and Jem never saw the inside of. It’s a big hole in the floor off the side of the downstairs hallway; covered with a fixture that Jem thinks looks like a porthole with brass around the edges and a curtain over it.

Enter Sage Traw, the daughter of the man who owned the oil tankard which exploded. She comes and offers an apology on her fathers behalf, and immediately, (For the girls face, Jem’s sure) Gadd forgives her. Over time, this girl comes into Gadd’s life, and Jem finds more and more she hates this girl. It’s not so much who she is as the fact being, she feels like this Sage is taking Gadd away from her. She hates the little trinkets- the ones Gadd loved; she looks down on Jem just because she works in the town factory, which this Ms. Traw should understand- so does Gadd. This Sage character burns Jem with her subtle snobbery and ‘I-must-be-first’ mentality, which yearns for the spotlight in the small town- and in Gadd’s heart too, Jem’s quite convinced.

One day, the mailman comes, and hands her a letter with a white wax seal of a rabbit- Jem knows immediately her father has set up some grand adventure for her- even from beyond the grave. The adventure starts with a brief letter from her father- one he wrote before he left for the tankard and had the mailman keep until the event of his death. Toeing along Kale and Jit, Jem sorts through her treasure box of a house, and Sage, thinking that there’s some grand treasure involved, tries to find out what’s going on before Jem can.

Soon, the little world of trinkets is part of a jigsaw puzzle, one concerning the factory which is central to the town’s economy, Jem and Gadd’s life, and a little healthy dose of magic.
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This idea is really an Alice in Wonderland spinoff, And I’m not so sure it’s a good Idea. I love the idea, but I’d really love some input on the idea BEFORE I go writing it all up, is it overdone? Is it unoriginal? AGGHH!

Okay :D Thanks :D

Actually, they were about Nineteen, I thought… :-/ It’s sill a very, very raw idea though. I need to process and refine it A LOT.

The names are all kinda silly, which isn’t necessarily a problem, but they’re all silly in the same way, in that they are single syllable aren’t-really-names-but-sound-like-they-could-be sort of names.

Anyway, I think it can work if you execute it properly, but I’m of the school of thought who thinks anything will work if executed properly.