transcribe ([info]transcribe) wrote,
@ 2007-03-05 11:25:00
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Current music:sinead o'connor - if you had a vineyard

Provided Word: Numbers
Word Count: 100
originating post: [info]anonymousblack


While he slept, she sat down at the kitchen table and made a list of his pros and cons as a partner. She suspected she could do better, but she had to see the math.

Their years had dragged on ho-hum, neither good nor bad, never enough to justify a further move in either direction. After she completed the list with Pros such as: funny, hard working, and smells good, and cons like: forgetful, passive, and selfish, she then attributed a number value to each one, a worth in her own mind.

The numbers just didn't add up.



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[info]easyalchemy
2007-03-05 11:29 pm UTC (link)
I wanted to say, a little while ago, that I'm really enjoying your writing, but that the one with the frog - the longer one - just slayed me. I mean, Ihad to click away really quickly to stop myself from reading it again, I teared up then and I'm tearing up now just thinking about it, and I found it so depressing that I had to force myself to stop thinking about it.

I have an overdeveloped sense of empathy for the truly pathetic; the story was very well-written. But, uh, I don't ever want to read it again.

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[info]transcribe
2007-03-05 11:54 pm UTC (link)
thanks so much for saying so!
it actually made me cry too when i wrote it.

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