What's a Good Story Title?

All We Need is sort of stolen and twisted from all you need is love, which is pretty much the plot.

On Sunset Strip because that's where the boys meet and where most of the story takes place and where Brendon goes back to.

Ryan Ross and the Great Bagel Dilemma because it presented itself, was sort of funny, and included the two main things: Ryan and a bagel.

Something Like It is from a line in the story. It was so like something she had said before, a lifetime ago, when they were in love or something like it. I thought that line summed up a lot and the phrase did as well.

Conversations on a Thursday Afternoon. I had 0 desire to name the story after the song that inspired it. It's basically three sections of what they do on a Thursday and a lot of the story is focused on the spoken and unspoken words.

Between the Lines got it's name because you have to. Twice. Literally. You have to read between the lines of what they're saying and then between the lines of the story as a whole.

And Then The Candle Goes Out got the name, obviously, from the numerous candles lit in the story, but it also has to do with the relationship between Brendon and Ryan ending.

Lost is pretty straight-forward. Brendon is lost in his nightmares, but he also loses himself in a moment that never existed.

Six actually means a lot of things. Blatantly, it says that the elevator gets stuck at the sixth floor, but it also represents a guitar which generally has six strings and, the reader doesn't know this, but it's been six years since Ryan has stopped playing guitar.

You Writer, You Liar is from a line in the film 'Closer'. Have you ever seen a heart? It looks like a fist wrapped in blood. Go fuck yourself--you writer, you liar! I thought it worked really well with Ryan's obsession with words and the whole thing about lies in the story as well.

My Sins Are My Own is from a line in the story itself. My sins are my own and I'll pay for them with my own blood.

Rois de la Nuit is french for Kings of the Night which is brought up when the narrator Lexxic meets another character who was originally from France

Saltwater Room is based off the name that I gave my step-sister's shop (she's the basis for the heroine of the story).

Permeneo Angelus means Last Angel in Latin, most fitting since Eoin is the last angel still on Earth.

Rooftops I will admit I totally stole form the song Rooftops by Lostprophets

The Twitterlight is partly named so because of the allusion to Twitter, partly because 'twitterlight' is an old-fashioned word which basically means the same as twilight, which is when the story takes place. Also, it just sounds pretty.

Find Your Own Way (Back Home) is from a line in the song Folkin' Around by Panic! at the Disco, which is what the story is based on. But it also alludes to Ryan finding his own way by breaking away from the band before, eventually, coming back to Spencer. Which is kind of cheesy, but yeah.

The Three Armies takes it's name from this quote: A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. but also from the three armies (sort of) mentioned in the story: the Americans, the British and the Germans.

The Prettiest of Liars is from a line in the story where Ryan tells Gerard, "you're a prettier liar than me". I was going to call it The Prettiest Liars and changed it at the last moment. I wanted it to be up to the reader if they're both the prettiest liars or if one of them is (and who it is is up to the reader as well).

How We Knocked the World Off Its Axis in Six Days is so long that in My Stories it ends with an ellipsis. But it's basically supposed to some up how so much happens in so little and it's told in vignettes and only about 800 words.

Gaunt is named as such because it's about anorexia. Pretty straight-forward.

Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights came from the chorus of the Kate Bush song, Wuthering Heights. It seemed appropriate because I was listening to the song as I wrote it, and the story makes a lot of references to the book.

I chose Too Little, Too Late because I knew I wanted something that played on time. Ryan gave too little and when he was ready to give enough, it was too late.

What You Took is a tweaked line from the song that inspired the story. You can't be given back what you take. I wanted a title you wouldn't quite understand unless you understood the story.

Under the Influence was because I considered the title "Under the Sheets" and immediately decided to do influence. It works because they're smoking weed in the story. And I think they're under the influence of something else as well.

Some LIttle Princesses si basically based on the whole idea that the rich rule and so, since the main character is so much a part of that society, I decided to go with that.

Special K's title is from the Placebo song, and it's suited as there's going to be use of Ketamine in it, and it also links to the main characters name.

Everything You Touch is taken from a line in the story where Brendon tells Ryan he destroys everything he touches.

Promise Anything is from a line in the story. I thought it was ambiguous.

What You Thought the Song Meant is a line from "Konstantine" by Something Corporate which is what the story is based on. It's also a sort of play on words, like this is what I thought the song meant.

The Ideas In Your Marijuana is something that I came up wth right at the last moment. It turned out to be a drabble, but it was supposed to be one-shot chronicling Ryan's life through various experiences with weed and it was going to be called The Sometimes Nonsensical Musings of a Dreamer but that didn't really make sense with the finished product. I love both titles though and I plan on using the latter for another story of mine.

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And i love both of those. Can't wait to read the other story.

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Whispered Secrets Behind the Interstate Gas Station was originally What If I Forget? but I didn't like that title. It seemed trite and sort of bullshitty. The story was pretty straight forward [for not really telling you anything] so I went with a straight forward title.

The Luxury of Being Brendon Urie is based on a line Ryan thinks in the story. And I used it as repetition. I used a pick of Chanel condoms for the banner as a sort of tongue-in-cheek thing.