Huh. Allyson, I think in that situation? I might not even bother posting a picture. If the readers' attention to the content is the end goal, why distract from that in any direction at all?

But I do like her conclusions from paying attention to what was going on in the comments.

Makes me even more paranoid about the jacket photo.

Which won't happen if I don't get dressed and go get a chai for a second wind for which to write.

Photograph

The Kodak photo says Nov 1972 along one edge.

A woman and a girl. They're in leotards, on the floor, exercising together, mugging for the camera. The musician who took it is the girl's lover. She was bleak, he got worried; she's thrown herself into gaiety, to reassure him.

The girl is eighteen and glorious, long hair hennaed black, green eyes, laughing, head thrown back. Her legs are puffy from having been in post-surgery compression; defying the doctors, she's wearing outrageous rocker shoes.

She looks up at me, laughing into history. I see her, and wonder if she'd know me.

This last topic inspired a LOT of good drabbles! I love reading them, and I always forget to say this, so here it is: THANK YOU, all you drabble-y drabblers. Thank you for sharing your writing week after week. It's such a gift to me. I love it.

Challenge #105 (you would hardly recognize me) is now closed.

Challenge #106 is The In Crowd. (This was inspired, actually, by an old Sesame Street bit -- not Grover doing Near and Far, but random muppets demonstrating how to put clothes and toys that are OUT away IN the closet or IN drawers, singing "We're In with the In Crowd.") No need to include muppets in your drabble, though.

Any takers on a beta of a draft or is everyone working on lovely drabbles?

Need to know if it's too dry, meanders off into la la land, the usual. Nothing about it reads correctly to me, but this has been like giving birth to a next of scorpions, so I think I'm too resentful of it to feel it through.

Just looking for general, "This reads well/this doesn't/I don't understand what the hell you're talking about" crit is what I need.

Allyson, I have about a half hour.

Ok, Allyson, I could do that. Profile's good.

Insent with gratitude!

I could give it a read, Allyson.

hooray! I never get a Jesse beta!