And wasn't one character welcoming the other in your drabble, Gud?

Yes! I stumbled my way into the theme.

Myron Floren was, however, Norwegian.

:facepalm::

And yet, I fail to remember my PIN.

Drabbles! It's so nice to see them in here again!

I should write one, too. Having a hard time thinking in the cold meds fog, though.

Which gives me an idea for a new prompt for today: fog.

oooh, fog . . .

I drive down the hill, around a curve, and the world ends. Red flashes ahead warn me to stop.

A deputy coalesces from the grey. "We're letting one lane go at a time, five at a time. Go slow."

My headlights off the grey blind me, but no lights is madness. I'd never see the tree that could kill me. There's no sign of the car that I know is ahead of me.

5 MPH, and I open the door so I can see the white line below me. Three miles of terror and awe.

Ok, I've got a question that I'm aware, just by asking it, I could sound like a giant asshole, but I'm going to ask anyway: Is it always worth it to revise off editor feedback? It's not that the feedback is so awful, although a few pieces were certainly unexpected, but, you know, it's kind of an insignificant little 'zine, so even if I completely *nail* the revisions and do the best work of my life, I'll have twelve readers and a tiny payment two months from now. Yay me. Which I know I would have loved three years ago when I was all butt-hurt about the form letters and "Would a little feedback kill these bastards or what?" But he basically told me that I need to take the whole thing apart...getting it right would take a lot of effort and I'm not sure what the return is beyond the cheap hit of a byline.

erika, it sounds from the way you're writing that it wouldn't be worth the effort *to you,* *right now*. And that's the deciding factor, isn't it?

If you don't do the fixes, will he publish anyway? Is he at all right about the changes?

I don't know...it's not like I have so many markets for my work that what I want should matter. And I thought they gave me my first break. But it hasn't led me to very much at all. Just reading some of the (Bach) Worst. Disability Writing in the Woorlld(/Bach)

Again, two birds. Drabble and playing around with a rewrite of a scene from the rough draft (OMG, the rough draft version sucks).

They topped a hill and Curtis saw the fog. Thick clouds of mist clung to the corrupted forest ahead in defiance of the bright sun overhead, twisted branches reached out of the sea of white like the fingers of drowning people grasping for the surface.

He stopped to stare and took an unconscious step backwards. "That doesn't look natural."

"Brilliant observation, Clueless," Holly remarked as she walked by.

A shove on his shoulder made him stumble forward; he turned to see Martin glaring at him. "Keep moving."

The three of them followed Avar and Simon as they advanced toward the thick mist, weaving between dead and twisted trunks. Not a speck of green appeared in the branches above or the ground below. Ahead, nothing could be seen but a white wall.

"Keep close," Avar said as they crossed over into fog and the clouds enveloped them.

Curtis stumbled over tangled roots and stones, but he managed to stay near the others. The world around him faded into a field of white mist so dense that his companions appeared only as shadows. Every crunched branch and every kicked rock echoed like thunder in the heavy silence. He tried not to think of what else might be wandering in the fog unseen, listening to their noise.

That’s when the whispering began.

I would make the fixes, E. The way I look at it, even though you may not get a big readership for this piece, you do get valuable experience in incorporating notes. And since you are a writer, that is something you are going to have to do your whole career, so the more practice, the better.