Way to go Amy!
Say! look at you! You look just like me! We're very pretty.
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Laga - Apr 17, 2008 12:33:04 pm PDT #57 of 6681
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
SailAweigh - Apr 20, 2008 6:07:46 am PDT #58 of 6681
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
For Bev, who wanted more of the story:
Exodus
Her backpack rested on the seat beside her, claiming the space from possible interlopers. Unlikely, as the bus had dropped off what seemed to be a horde of itinerant workers chattering away in Spanish in Bakersfield. There were a few passengers left, none who had started as far east as she. At every stop she'd watched the ones who got off, most embraced by smiling families and friends. Not always, though. Some left slump-shouldered and shuffling; the ends of their lines a solitary exodus.
Hers wouldn't be one. She hugged the paper-wrapped cookie jar against her rounded belly, her family.
Beverly - Apr 20, 2008 6:55:39 am PDT #59 of 6681
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Thank you, Sail! Nice. I love the formatting. You can write a whole novel this way. Like a scrapbook of snapshots. Lovely.
Amy - Apr 20, 2008 8:17:50 am PDT #60 of 6681
Because books.
Very nice, Sail!
The "embrace" challenge is now closed.
This week's prompt is "addiction".
I'm standing in for Lee, today. Be glad I didn't give you "porn".
erikaj - Apr 21, 2008 9:56:05 am PDT #61 of 6681
Always Anti-fascist!
If anyone has time to beta the first few chapters of a mystery, I'd appreciate it.
Miracleman - Apr 21, 2008 9:57:02 am PDT #62 of 6681
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Hit me, erika. Profile addy good.
erikaj - Apr 21, 2008 9:59:44 am PDT #63 of 6681
Always Anti-fascist!
You got it,MM.
Amy - Apr 27, 2008 4:39:06 am PDT #64 of 6681
Because books.
The "addiction" challenge is now closed.
This week's prompt is "two people in a dark room."
Standing in for Lee again. Last time, I promise.
Ailleann - Apr 27, 2008 8:42:03 pm PDT #65 of 6681
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Written in about five minutes, just for the laughs.
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"Ow, fuck, what the--"
"Honey?"
"I’m over here."
"Okay, great. Man, it’s dark, I can’t see a thing."
"Look, just stand still and I will come over--damnit!"
"What?"
"Nothing, just this fucking coffee table."
"Ooh, I hate that. Look, just move really slowly."
"Nah, I thought I’d sprint. Oh, motherfu--"
"What?"
"Nothing, just going to die. A roller skate? When did we even get roller skates?"
"Baby, I haven’t owned roller skates since 1985."
"Well, something’s on--damnit!"
"Honey?"
"Look, I’m just going to stop moving, all right?"
"All right. Here, I think I have…ohh, the lights!"
"Jesus wept."
Susan W. - Apr 27, 2008 9:27:22 pm PDT #66 of 6681
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I like that, Ailleann!
Here's mine, going for the most obvious interpretation of the topic....
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“Ahh, Rebecca...”
She loves her name in his accent.
Joel always called her Becky--Joel who was alive this morning. Tomorrow she’ll despise herself, but she cannot bear to weep alone when she can assuage her grief in this man’s arms.
“What’s your name?” she asks.
He goes absolutely still. “Don’t you...you do know who I am?”
“I mean your Christian name--no one ever uses it, and I’ve forgotten. I cannot call you ‘General’ here!”
Amusement ripples through him. “You could.”
“You’d like that!” she accuses.
He laughs and tells her his name. But she wishes she hadn’t spoken, because this isn’t only grief now--it’s this man, and this moment, and knowing she’s wanted this since the day she met him.