Thanks Erika!
I am having a lot of trouble with the five stories question lol because I want to make sure I am picking the ones i'd like Aliens to walk away from thinking "Wow, these Backstreet Boy earthlings are pretty awesome! And so are the people who write about them!"
1. Ground Zero by Chaos because i'd like aliens to know that even boys who aren't really fans of the BSB can write an incredible story about them told in first person.
2. Where Can We Go From Here by Whitney - to let them know we can be a little cheesy and sappy but in the end these boys cared about each other enough to sing one of the guys right out of a coma!
3. Climbing Up That Hill by Sakabelle - because this one shows that even through the hard times, in the end the boys all manage to come through for each other and what better way to tell that story then through all of their points of view.
4. Seven Days by Refuse - Because it's the classic survival story featuring a bus crash. You gotta have a good old fashioned bus crash and or hijacking followed by a kidnapping and hunt of the boys. And a pet squirrel...or was that the sequel? lol Either way. I loved it!
5. Documentaries by Izzy - I feel like I need to always include this story in anything epically related to a must read list because it's my favorite! lol and again, tells an angsty tale about lonliness even when uber famous.
I'm sneaking The One With Nick by Mersey in there because it's my all time favorite short short story! I don't really consider Documentaries that short of a short story. And Mersey deserves to be in this group because she is a perfect example of an incredible writer who isn't comfortable writing in English but you'd never know it! Plus she's my doppleganger and I loves her! lol
There are quite a few more i'd love to include but these are the five erm....six I whittled it down to. lol