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Idol Survivor: "Letters From Next Week"

Apr 02, 2021 12:53

Letters From Next Week
idol survivor | daily-fic challenge, day 14 | ~500 words

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Dear Stacy, I know how much you love those navy-blue dress pants, but listen up: DO NOT wear them to the Customer Focus Group meeting on Monday. I mean it. That zipper has had all it can take. It's standing on the ledge, and it’s going to jump. You ( Read more... )

original_fiction, my_fic, real lj idol

Comments 6

passing_through April 3 2021, 06:27:18 UTC

I LOVE this ( ... )

halfshellvenus April 4 2021, 09:10:27 UTC

I focus on the heat/AC thing a lot due to my hatred of the heat and how I don't think I would have lasted as a Prairie Woman :)
I've had those thoughts before, mainly because Sacramento is such a hell-hole heatwise as well. Not as bad as Phoenix, but hardly anyplace is that bad. I cannot _imagine_ settling in this climate without A/C. Gah.

I think about time and my remaining time as well, in a slight different depressing way--and COVID really hasn't helped any of that, because it's so hard to enjoy things or remember what 'fun' felt like. Mine is more about the best parts of life being behind me, those years of college and then when I first met my husband and all of that time through when the kids were little. The next bright spot really is the grandchildren, and I worry less about my health there than my husband's.

I wish more often that I could travel to the past and revisit the good moments all over again!

certainthings April 4 2021, 02:18:27 UTC

are you planning on being a writer/author? or are you already?

halfshellvenus April 4 2021, 09:11:38 UTC

This is as far as I've gotten-- lots of fanfic, and writing for Idol (I was co-winner of the last mini-season at Dreamwidth, but who knows what will come out of THIS endurance slog). :O

Still enjoying it, though!

zora_sourit April 4 2021, 08:24:53 UTC

OMG, I love this! I totally relate to the "just winging it" part when it comes to food and thinking I can parallel park. Thank you for sharing :)

halfshellvenus April 4 2021, 09:12:30 UTC

Haha! I'm so glad you got a kick out of this!

I loved the idea here of implying, through Future Stacy's advice, the kinds of things that went very badly the first timeline around. ;)