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Starstruck -> RE: 'Writer's Request Shops'? (3/15/2014 20:35:33)
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A little flash fiction for you, Eukky. (just over 300 words) It may not be accurate, possibly not even in its prediction, but I had fun writing this as if your last sentence was a writing prompt.
Eukara Vox sat at her desk, drumming her fingers quietly on its familiar surface.
Suddenly a horrified look crossed her face. "Oh no!" she cried aloud, to nobody in particular. "What was the due date again? ...I think it's the 18th!" Fingers flew, and fears were confirmed. She set right to work, but the thought remained.
As the work continued, introduction completed and facts filling pages of white space, organizing thoughts and words and ideas into a coherent format, the seed of thought was quietly germinating. Thread tags quietly suggested themselves and disappeared. Announcements were subconsciously drafted, edited, and scrapped. And when Eukara lay her head to rest in the early hours of the morning, lists of possible rules and regulations seemed stamped onto her eyelids.
That night she dreamed of prompts and responses, of moderators to appoint and locations for a new board. In a surreal vision, she saw herself messaging administrators and webmasters, and the new board created.
She saw its golden age, the creation of new and exciting stories to original and unique prompts. She saw it come to life at her fingertips. She saw it die, ideas being posted once a month to an audience of one. She saw its rebirth, its high points, its low points, its problems, its mistakes. She saw the criticism, she saw the praise.
When she awoke and again worked on the paper in earnest, the seed had blossomed with new life. The idea that would not leave her mind cast roots into her attention. Her subconscious compared the suggestion with threads from the past, found similarities…and differences. She loaded up her browser, just once, avoiding distraction and temptation. Before she lost her nerve, her fingers swiftly tapped out and submitted a brief message.
“It would be one of a couple of contests run, considering we already have one going on right now in L&L.”
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