Pearlescent: Original Drabble

[bitterfic]

Author: Bitterfig
Title: Pearlescent
Fandom: Original
Beta Reader: Fedink
Word Count: 213
Rating: PG
Warnings: References to alcohol, bisexuality.
Author’s Note: Written for visualcomplex’s origfic: writing meme for the prompt “pearl

Comments

[lawless523]

I really liked this one too. Coincidentally, my contribution to the meme when it first went up also used the prompt "pearl", among others, and was called "Pearlescent Friction", but I didn't use the metaphor as extensively as you did.

[bitterfic]

Thanks so much. I saw your post but I haven't read it yet (I'm really slow about reading stuff, I feel like I'm a lousy friend in that way). I like the way you combined several of the prompts (just based on the title.)

[lawless523]

You don't need to apologize! Reading stuff takes concentration, and original fiction takes more of it since you don't know what to expect.

[bitterfic]

I guess I've always been more a writer than a reader. That's an adorable cat in your icon.

[lawless523]

Thank you. Here's her sister.

[bitterfic]

So cute. She looks a lot like my parents cat Chingachgook. Very similar fur color, eyes and markings.

[bitterfic]

What are their names?

[lawless523]

The first cat is De Soto (she likes to explore) and the second is Maya. Their sister is Candy and their mother is Sofia. That's Sofia.

[bitterfic]

So you have 4 all in all? Very cool. I've been cat crazy since I was six years old. I currently have 3 furrballs in my life, my parents cats Chingachgood and Uncas (named after James Fenimore Coopers The Last of the Mohicans novel)and my grandmother's cat Murphy who wishes very much that I would go away (except when I pet him).

[lawless523]

Actually we have five: momcat, her three daughters, and an unrelated cat who we inherited from my mother-in-law when she died.

I have icons of mom and two of her daughters. I took the other daughter's picture while she was using the litter box and she looks understandably grumpy. The fifth cat rarely comes in the den and hid when I went looking for her, so I don't have a picture of her.