DEW: Gun Street Girls
Genre: gen
Characters: Jody, Alex, Claire
Rating: G
Challenge: DEW: Jody; jobs.
Warnings/Spoilers: nope
Word Count: 100
Summary: Wayward daughters; weapons.
Title from Tom Waits.
Claire lays out the “silver”; it makes her think of haloes, which don’t exist.
Alex puts out the “silver”; it make her think of bigger blades, ones that sliced-
she doesn’t think of that anymore. They’re home. There are chores.
Claire shines knives; Alex takes out trash.
There’s a broom.
*
Jody comes home; shrugs off the shift to a shine.
Kitchen countered; sauce stocked; a peace.
Bedtime Jody lays out the weapon, in pieces, for cleaning; one girl at each hand, says,
Do it like this.
Wraps arms over shoulderblades (these girls!), tugs them:
(Be strong.)
Be safe.
Characters: Jody, Alex, Claire
Rating: G
Challenge: DEW: Jody; jobs.
Warnings/Spoilers: nope
Word Count: 100
Summary: Wayward daughters; weapons.
Title from Tom Waits.
Claire lays out the “silver”; it makes her think of haloes, which don’t exist.
Alex puts out the “silver”; it make her think of bigger blades, ones that sliced-
she doesn’t think of that anymore. They’re home. There are chores.
Claire shines knives; Alex takes out trash.
There’s a broom.
*
Jody comes home; shrugs off the shift to a shine.
Kitchen countered; sauce stocked; a peace.
Bedtime Jody lays out the weapon, in pieces, for cleaning; one girl at each hand, says,
Do it like this.
Wraps arms over shoulderblades (these girls!), tugs them:
(Be strong.)
Be safe.