Lipgloss and chocolate. Al didn't think she'd seen anything more seductive.
The woman was sitting at a table away from where Al was holed up in a booth, brooding over her coffee. Al had watched her slide piece after piece of chocolate over lips so shiny they looked glazed, and she almost forgot her angst.
The woman turned the page of her paperback romance and reached for the last piece of chocolate. Al couldn't look away as she watched the chocolate be engulfed by that pink mouth. The unnamed woman licked her fingers clean.
Al thought for an instant about going and asking for the girl's number, but she new of a million reasons why that would be ill-advised. Liz was dead, to begin with.
Al paid for her coffee and left the shop without a backward glance.
--Set in the world of my first NaNo, and dammit I'm going to go back and finish that book one day.
As I said to Buhfly, this is not the best thing I've ever written, but it was done quickly, and I think that's essential to turning off the internal censor, something Steph needs to learn how to do desperately. And the newer you are to an artform, the harder it is to do that. Write lots. Write quickly. Don't let yourself read over them until you're finished the first draft.
The woman was sitting at a table away from where Al was holed up in a booth, brooding over her coffee. Al had watched her slide piece after piece of chocolate over lips so shiny they looked glazed, and she almost forgot her angst.
The woman turned the page of her paperback romance and reached for the last piece of chocolate. Al couldn't look away as she watched the chocolate be engulfed by that pink mouth. The unnamed woman licked her fingers clean.
Al thought for an instant about going and asking for the girl's number, but she new of a million reasons why that would be ill-advised. Liz was dead, to begin with.
Al paid for her coffee and left the shop without a backward glance.
--Set in the world of my first NaNo, and dammit I'm going to go back and finish that book one day.
As I said to Buhfly, this is not the best thing I've ever written, but it was done quickly, and I think that's essential to turning off the internal censor, something Steph needs to learn how to do desperately. And the newer you are to an artform, the harder it is to do that. Write lots. Write quickly. Don't let yourself read over them until you're finished the first draft.
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