That Meme That Everyone Is Doing

[overnighter]

I'm sort of half-assedly doing NaNo this year (by which I mean I am cheating by using NaNo to impose some deadlines on myself for the novel that I am attempting to have in progress), so naturally I'm thinking a lot about writing.

miss_begonia talked me into trying out this meme, even though it's been a bit since I've posted a new story:

Pick a paragraph (

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[beege22]

>As he ended the call and put the car into gear, he was actually seeking out the Christmas carol station on the radio. If God didn't smite him into the extra special hell before tomorrow morning, this might turn out to be the best Atwood Christmas on record.

As long as he remembered to change his pants.

I always wondered, what happened after?

Also, several of your Ryan/Taylor shortfics seems to take place in a shared storyverse. True/false?

[beachtree]

Ummm... A rushed attempt at lunch is no time to do this justice- and beege22's icon and comment reminds me of another story I need to read. Ouch.

I'll be baaaack.

[miss_begonia]

She turns the corner in the deserted end of the lot and there he is, sitting on the hood of the old black muscle car she’d seen outside the window before. He’s got his feet up on the bumper, his hands behind him as he leans back on the hood, and he’s not doing anything but watching her. She wonders how he figured out it was her car, or even if he had, if it was just coincidence.

“It was the only truck left in the lot,” he says as she comes up even with the car. Even though she’s in flats and he’s sitting on the car, she’s still taller than him, and he tilts his head up a little to look at her. She can’t see his eyes, but she catches a glimpse of his grin flashing in the dark.

I'd love to hear you talk about any of that story, really. I love the atmosphere in it, how you create this whole world around these lonely, lonely people.