30.8 - Anakin Skywalker

One way you can tell that traffic is moving way too slowly is when you have time to write down an entire short story on a paper cd envelope you happen to have in your car. Another way is when a paper cd envelope is way too small a space for the amount of time in which you have to write.

Almost *five hours* to get home, folks. At one point I realized I had spent more time just on the on-ramp from 3 onto 95 than I usually did on my whole commute. *And I still wasn't on 95*.

My goals for this one were no dialogue and exactly 100 words. There are four lines of dialogue and very close to 200 words. As these things go, that's actually not bad.

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( I got you a birthday present )

30.6 - Dawn Summers

Two two two today for the price of one! I could probably keep making minor edits here indefinitely, but I am Not Going To. To recap, the goals here are no description of anything not happening right then and there, and no lines of dialogue that the speaker does not intend to have some effect on someone else in the scene. (And even given all that... there is still backstory. Oh, backstory, I don't know how to quit you.)

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( Buffy asks Spike, 'I wonder what Dawn wants to tell us tonight?' )