Apr. 6th, 2011

aldersprig: an egyptian sandcat looking out of a terra-cotta pipe (trefoil)
Hey, Rin-and-Girey readers - what do you want to see more of in their story?

I think I need at least three or four more stories along the road, and then one to three more as they move into Lannamer, since just crossing the bridge took two stories. But you tell me! What do you want to see?
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Three Word Wednesday is a once-weekly 3-word writing prompt.

This week's three words were Adamant, Fabricate, Peculiar.

[community profile] dailyprompt is a once-daily writing prompt. March 16th's prompt was coffee with too much sugar (I got started, and then got stuck).



If there was a word one could use to describe Sasha Carter, it would be “peculiar.”

She drank her coffee sludgy and thick, with too much sugar and enough cream to turn it a pale tannish hue, and she drank it by the gallon. It was her one vice, her one addiction, and her sole source of calories during the work day; she supplemented it with a handful of vitamin pills while she bent over her desk, working ten-hour days regularly and twelve-hour days on Friday.

Her superiors didn’t want to question it – she worked hard, packing more work into a fifty-two-hour work week than her colleagues did into two or three thirty-five-hour weeks – and those colleagues were a little frightened of her, so, rather than bother her with questions that might, they feared, get them stabbed with a .07 mm lead, they kept the fridge well-stocked with cream, the cupboard with sugar, and the pot hot with coffee at all times.
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