dragonlady7

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you definitely should repost them here. I liked when you posted other old (?) non-fiction-y things, like, there were some about conversations with your friends?

Oh yes– K stories, the little essays I wrote based on conversations with the one friend I’d spent a lot of time with that year, with the fascinating life story.

I never did repost the ones I wrote about his experiences as a diver at an underwater life theme park (I’m trying not to use the brand name, LOL)– they’re lost somewhere in my Tumblr archives from around that time. I loved those stories, though.

this-is-furious said: I just love your style. Even in a short thing like this it somehow comes through.

Thanks!

I really should, one of these days, go back through some of my *really* old works and try to figure out when I developed my “style”; I still don’t really think of myself as having one, but I definitely do, and one of the things I let myself fall deep into fanfic in order to work on was trying to make characters who can speak and not sound just like me.

Here’s another one, from May 2005:

Bacardi and Coke with a Lime

He’s sitting at the bar. I’m leaning on the corner of the bar. We’re watching TV.
Celebrity gossip show informs us that Angelina Jolie is single.
“Sweet!” I say. “I have a chance!”
“That’s just what my wife said,” he answers.