It can take me a long time to write about stuff, if it is painful or confusing stuff.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - Feb 24, 2005 11:36:17 am PST #220 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
deborah grabien - Feb 24, 2005 4:03:43 pm PST #221 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Dear god, this one is hard to write.
A Memory, Returning After Thirty Years
The first drop was almost invisible.
Had I known it was there, had I looked at it closely, the survival instinct that runs bone-deep in all of us would have told me that something was very wrong. This blood was the wrong texture; spongy, diluted. Just a drop, so small, so very small.
Another drop of blood, wrongly textured, edging out over the elastic of one silk panty leg. A sudden cramp, a thin streaming flood. Panicked, I reached for the phone.
I hadn't known I was pregnant. I hadn't known there was something, blood, anything at all, to lose.
Deena - Feb 24, 2005 5:16:06 pm PST #222 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
you give me cold chills, Deb.
erikaj - Feb 25, 2005 11:37:36 am PST #223 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Another happy question from me, but how long do they leave up crime scene tape?Because all of the articles I've read have just convinced me I'm not the only wannabe Simon out there...that yellow tape makes a lot of reporters swallow The Big Book of Metaphors or something.
Atropa - Feb 25, 2005 12:04:16 pm PST #224 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
122 words for the 'something small' drabble topic. I couldn't tighten it more than that.
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I look at a playing card he handed me.
"So this is going to revolutionize gaming?"
Kyle swipes another sip of my coffee sitting on the table between us, nods.
"I like the art. The rules look really … mathy, though."
"The guy who designed it is a math professor. But it's going to be huge."
I shrug. We stop talking about his new job, instead gossiping about the live-action vampire game we're both in. Before he takes me home, Kyle tucks the card into the band of my top hat. I don't know it, but the card holds my future; a new job, travel, a husband. All I see is some better-than-average fantasy art, and rules text I don’t care about.
Connie Neil - Feb 25, 2005 12:15:10 pm PST #225 of 10001
brillig
Aww, the history of Jilli and gaming, all in one drabble.
deborah grabien - Feb 25, 2005 1:43:22 pm PST #226 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Jilli! That one's a sweetie.
deborah grabien - Feb 25, 2005 2:50:34 pm PST #227 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Wondering about submitting a short story or two here.
I've got a few friends with stories already published there or accepted there - Kate Maloy, Susan Ito, Russell Rowland - and it's tempting. I'm worried about Vonnegut being their gold standard, though...
Beverly - Feb 25, 2005 11:55:22 pm PST #228 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Submit, Deb. The chances are 50-50 going in, without any other considerations at all. Spare? Your writing is both spare and elegant. Go for it.
deborah grabien - Feb 26, 2005 7:34:58 am PST #229 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I'm actually thinking of expanding an existing drabble into a longer piece. Would that be kosher, do you think?