the best things in life are unseen

The SPARKLY FIC Meme

Day One: Write ten lines of dialogue between two characters who had drunken sex last night and are not talking about it. Ever.
Day Two: Write a scene in four sentences in which two characters bond over something that would seem trivial to a passerby.
Day Three: Write seven sentences from the perspective of a passerby witnessing Day Two's scene.
Day Four: Write a character's reaction to someone's love confession in one sentence.
Day Five: Write a scene in eight sentences in which someone's going through his/her version of "It's a Wonderful Life."
- Day Six: Write a scene in six sentences in which a character is searching for someone in the last moments of the end of the world. -
Day Seven: Write a breakup scene in three sentences without giving the reason for it or using dialogue.
Day Eight: Write two characters' second kiss in two sentences.
Day Nine: Ask flist for prompts. Write one sentence each for the first five prompts you receive.
Day Ten: Use these lyrics as a prompt: "There's only now/There's only here/Give in to love/Or live in fear" ("Another Day" from RENT) and write a story in nine sentences.

- Day Six -

Every person in the city seems to be standing still as George runs full-tilt toward Der Waffle Haus. The absence is behind her, lifting the lives from people's bodies as easily as fingers through a cobweb. In its wake rise blue ballet halls and blue bakeries and blue Broadway theaters, enough blue to cloak the continent.

She finds Rube sitting in their booth, reading a paperback over a plate of half-eaten scrambled eggs.

He smiles at her, crooked and resigned, and says, "Have a seat, peanut."

She slides into his side, and as the absence passes through Kiffany's still-warm coffee pot on their table, Rube begins to read aloud.