Apr. 6th, 2011
3WW/Dailyprompt - Peculiar Habits
Apr. 6th, 2011 04:44 pmThree Word Wednesday is a once-weekly 3-word writing prompt.
This week's three words were Adamant, Fabricate, Peculiar.
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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This week's three words were Adamant, Fabricate, Peculiar.
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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