A drop of water hits a distant pool. Lola freezes mid-step. Her hand snakes around her hip resting on the hilt. Another drop of water echos. She relaxes her grip and takes a tentative step, feeling the hard earth though her thin leather shoes. The drop echos and the sound of shuffling of footsteps follow. Lola finds a boulder along the cave wall ( Read more... )

3:00 p.m.

Deb was vacuuming her bedroom when it caught hold of something under the bed. She pulled a red Swisher Sweets box from its vice grip. He lied to me. She took the box into the bathroom and lifted the toilet seat. This is one box he’s not going to smoke. When she opened the box she found letters in unsealed envelops. She put the toilet seat ( Read more... )

Donnie growled in the middle of a text. He turned to Rose, who was sitting on the bed behind him. "It froze again."

She held out her hand and he gave her the phone. Rose gave it a quick look over before popping out the battery. "Just remove the battery and it'll reset." She handed back the phone. He went back to texting and fussing with his hair.

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 I know that I haven't posted anything yet, but I have been writing. I'm trying to prepare for nanowrimo so I've been trying to write about 2,000 words a day. I've actually been able to do it most days. This weekend I'll have the first bit of a story I've been working on.

Until then, tell me what you think of this  piece I wrote in September. 
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