2. What Really Matters

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Thursday, December 12th-12:22 p.m.

1,845 words. Approximate reading time: 9 minutes, 13 seconds.

A light snow fell on Schubert Fulton as he quietly snuck behind the school gymnasium and pulled his vape pen out of his pocket. He lifted up the bottom of his balaclava, took the opening of the pen to his mouth, and pressed the button on the side of the

Comments

[roina_arwen]

I like this, great conversations and characters. Nicely done.

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Thank you! :)

[beautyofgrey]

Such a sweet moment in time to capture - reminds me so much of former days, but I appreciate how you manage to cross present day with something that seems just outside of our universe/time. Love the characters and dialogue, too!

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Thank you! I've always felt very so-so at dialogue (I typically don't write fiction so I'm not used to it), so I'm always happy to hear that I'm doing okay at it. :-)

[alycewilson]

I thought this was set in the present day, and then it just got more and more unusual. Good way of keeping the surprises coming.

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Thank you! :)

[bleodswean]

Great scene and really skillful world-building. The dialogue kept me hooked! You captured a recognizable "time" that all of us have grown through!

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Thank you; I'm glad you enjoyed it! :) Part of the fun of locking myself inside this world, but doing vignettes, is the ability to jump around to different characters and ideas (so I don't feel tied down by any particular story threads) while also having a little bit of a framework to work from (so I'm not completely fumbling around trying to come up with something).

[marlawentmad]

I enjoy the vignette structure. There is subtlety in the world building. It keeps giving me that feeling that the world is just not quite right to be the one I live in. It's an intriguing sensation.

[engarian]

Oh, this could be quite interesting. Two strong characters here.

- Erulisse (one L)

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Thank you! I still haven't quite decided if I'm going to come back to any characters or not - I'm sort of waffling between just doing all of these stories as one-off scenes and having a bunch of characters that might end up having an overarching connection. But I do like these two a lot, and I wonder how their story will proceed.