![]() Author has written 22 stories for Newsies, Outsiders, and Riverdale. Origin of my pen name: Phoebe: I just realized something. Joker is poker with a j... coincidence? -From TV Show 'Friends' My ACTUAL name is Emily :) Nice of you to stop by and take a lookie at my profile! I finally decided to update it because it was prett-y lame before. So, now it'll be less lame.... I am an avid reader and writer of the Newsies category as you will find out if you scroll down to my stories. I have dabbled in a few Outsiders ones but at the moment I'm just working on newsies. I have a story floating out there that was co-written with my friend Grunge Sponge under her pen name but unfortunately we never got to finish it. If you're still interested in it, here's a link: Normal is a Town in Illinois - Hazard has normal, everyday issues such as selling her newspapers, carry the weight of being second-in-command to Spot Conlon, and keeping her newsie life a secret from her over-protective father and three brothers. Now, onto a little bit of a background on my (multi-chapter) stories (In order of publication from most recent to past): *In Progress* Dream Girl: Fifth Installment in the BHS. Jack and Natalia's story that we've only seen hints of during Nina and David's! How We Heal: Fourth installment in the Benjamin Hotel Series featuring David Jacobs. You don't really need to read them in order, but there are a few reoccuring OC's of mine that are introduced in the first story! Numb Redux: Re-write of my original story Numb. I kept thinking of all the things wrong with the original and I just had to try my hand at an improved version ;) I'm pretty excited to see where it goes. There are a lot of changes I plan to make from the original! Monster : A one shot that turned into a three (or four) chapter story. Focuses on Wicked, from Say When and Following You. Written mainly for my darling friend xxWicked Wench but if anyone enjoyed the characters Wicked and Joker and wanted to read a rather dark tale from their universe :) Following You : The sequel to Say When. I'm currently undecided about whether or not I have the time/energy to finish this one. *Complete* BENJAMIN HOTEL SERIES (In order): This is a romance series set 7-8 years post strike. All In : So, I really wanted to do a fun/epic Racetrack love story. I put it through several edits until one late night (or really early morning) I sat down and wrote the prologue. It turned into a series so this is the FIRST of the Benjamin Hotel Series. The rest is history. :) It is set seven years after the strike and we meet Racetrack, Mush, and Blink who are all employed at the Benjamin Hotel, owned and operated by David Jacobs. This story revolves around Racetrack and Clara, his best friends sister, going on a crazy trip to Chicago to bring home the one and only Jack Kelly for a very mysterious reason... When It Comes to Love : The Second in the Benjamin Hotel Series. Centers around Mush and the woman he falls in love with. Vivian is a widower and a single mother whose husband left her a debt to a gang you'll be familiar with from All In. I do recommend reading the series in order, as some of the side characters (Carlos) will be taking on bigger roles (particularly Blink's story). Desperate Measures: The Third in the Benjamin Hotel series. Blink and Katherine's story as well as Carlos and his mysterious lady's story! BONUS MATERIAL Benjamin Hotel Chronicles: Bonus material of random scenes not written in the individual stories! WordyAF and I mashed up our universes because they eerily fit together with only a few modifications so if you check out her stories there are a LOT of appearances by Carlos and others from the BHS universe! (And get familiar with Trout/Eli because he's amazing, as is Marta, Darcy and Spot!!) My Perfect Disaster by WordyAF All Through the Night by WordyAF She is also working on Skittery's story called The Firewatcher's Daughter STAND ALONE STORIES: Say When : In response to the many cliches of girls being sent to Brooklyn to be protected. Where something unimaginable happens, Spot gets betrayed! But, he's found and taken in by (luckily) a nurse and her two daughters. A Ragged Army : Oh, this is a baby of mine. Originally published YEARS ago as The Story of Asylum, I got fed up with it and deleted the lot of it. I completely re-wrote the first chapter using only hints of the old story and was left with (what I believe to be) one of my greatest pieces of writing. I know it's not perfect, but I truthfully believe that flaws make things more interesting! :) The Curse of Love : Although I wrote it when I was younger and I believe it needs major modifications I'm actually quite proud of it. It's definitely an AU in which there is a magic that causes a young girl to be frozen as her seventeen year old self for almost four hundred years (not literally frozen, she just doesn't age). Very weird, you'd think but hey we all have a time travel story. You think that's any less weird?? :3 Infamous : Definitely another one of my babies, I was OBSESSED with the thought of a strong, female lead. I know opposites attract, but sometimes there's just this magnetism with someone who understands you in a way that no one else does. I felt for this story that Spot needed Infamous, who is the leader of a group of kids that live in the sewers known as 'sewsies'. It may be a far out-there idea but I had a lot of fun with it! (Shameless plug, xxWicked Wench has a kind of 'tip-of-the-hat, her words not mine, to my sewsies in her story Chess. They're referred to as Mud Larks, which is much more creative than sewsies. lol) Numb : In the Reviews, Hits, Favorites and Alert category this is my most popular. Don't ask me why. I LOVED writing it, but when I went back to look at it about 8 months ago (with more writing experience under my belt) I could not get passed the third chapter. No lie, this is crappy writing. I have plans in the future when I'm not working on anything else to COMPLETELY re-edit this entire story with a version that doesn't suck. Though, I did find out from my psychology teacher that if a baby had no feeling it probably wouldn't have lived. :( Fire Starters, A MindReader, and the Time Machine : Deleted. Something to Hold Onto : Not my first ever fic, because I deleted the crap that was written before it. This story is full of cliches and terribly over used plot lines and NO character building at all, but I keep it up because it was one of the first fics that wasn't complete trash and I can still read through it occasionally and see just how far my writing has come! :) *Stranded : Has been deleted due to the fact that I could not take that story anywhere for the life of me :/* The rest of my stories are one-shots that were written in moments of inspiration and you can read at your leisure at any given time. Some ARE better than others but in either case, writing a one-shot is sometimes a nice break from writing a multi-chapter story.
An original quote by me for my love of Newsies, "I want a Cowboy, a man who owns a city, a gambler, and a pessimist. I want one who turns me to mush, that wears an eye patch, and learns to use his voice. I want a newsie." And if you're so inclined: FOLLOW ME ON TUMBLR!! FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER!! https://twitter.com/Jokerispokerw_J Truly, Joker is Poker with a J |