The closer drabble is now closed.
The new prompt is push
I-I'm just taking things without paying for th... In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
Willow ,'Showtime'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Lee - Oct 05, 2008 11:43:34 am PDT #963 of 6687
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
erikaj - Oct 08, 2008 10:57:57 am PDT #964 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, so I'm writing a scene in an 1930's bank building that has been converted to chi-chi condos. I thought up this whole listening-at-the-door thing, but now that I think about it, older buildings probably wouldn't let the sound out the way, say, mine, does.Am I right?
Typo Boy - Oct 08, 2008 11:23:33 am PDT #965 of 6687
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Don't know, but if you are, someone could have put in a new hollow-core door which would carry sound nicely.
Toddson - Oct 08, 2008 11:53:14 am PDT #966 of 6687
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
erika, I live in a 1929 building (built as a luxury building ... now fallen on hard times) and sound travels between my apartment and the hallway quite well. Also between apartments.
And if the building's been converted, doors will be flimsier. Unless they're in the vault, sound should travel quite well.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2008 12:22:12 pm PDT #967 of 6687
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, my building is pre-war, and you can't hear anything between apartments through the walls, but you can always hear through the doors.
erikaj - Oct 08, 2008 12:43:39 pm PDT #968 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Just checking...mystery fans are hard-core(Represent!) as you know. If they caught me in a mistake like that, I'm a rookie for life.
Typo Boy - Oct 08, 2008 12:53:16 pm PDT #969 of 6687
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Not always. John Dickson Carr once had a murderer use dry ice to kill a victim - mistaking frozen carbon dioxide for frozen carbon monoxide. A small block of dry ice in a sealed room, and as it evaporated in filled the room where the victim slept with carbon dioxide "the deadliest gas known to man".
Toddson - Oct 08, 2008 12:55:19 pm PDT #970 of 6687
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
ah ... The Case of the Constant Suicides!
Typo Boy - Oct 08, 2008 12:56:20 pm PDT #971 of 6687
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
And Toddson wins the no-prize.
Toddson - Oct 08, 2008 1:00:10 pm PDT #972 of 6687
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
um ... no-prize? the way things are going, that sums up my life.