100 Drabbles #5 through #8
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kasihyaPrompt: Ice
POV Character: Alan
Date: Age 15
Summary: Alan in his cynical phase.
Humans are machines. I can see the dopamine rush when you take a bite of chocolate: a bright flare along y=x^(-1) in your brain, sending off purple shoots to connect to that memory of Valentine's Day chocolate from your boyfriend, subconsciously comparing the two tastes and finding this one lacking. You won't know why, but I can see the improper connections between purple and the electric green patterns of infatuation. Then you look at the candy wrapper, and the calorie count sets off a latticework of media images, past diets, friends' expectations. The purple dopamine equation dims. You're so predictable.
(This was a fun one to write. I interpreted the prompt all metaphorically, did you see that? Aren't I clever? :P)
Prompt: Part-Time Job
POV Character: Karthik
Date: Year 381
Summary: Karthik puts his powers to good use.
Karthik technically only works three-quarter time for QUARK, and a nice apartment in D'Sezan isn't cheap. This dilemma led him to one Ms. Julia Knight, of declining mental faculties. She has a small quest bedroom in which he resides when he's not sleeping in a loft at QUARK, and really, you get used to the cats after a while. Her shoes can tell him when she last went to the kitchen and ate; when she can't remember her wedding date, he can touch the dress and gently prod her in the right direction. Besides, she likes his Seeing Eye Parakeet.
Prompt: Sunburn
POV Character: Neil
Date: year 381
Summary: A metaphor.
Magic is like sunlight, Neil decides. He needs it, or else he becomes depressed and Vitamin D deficient; but if he stays exposed to it for too long, his skin turns red and blotchy.
Minus the Vitamin D deficiency, obviously. Magic doesn't do that.
And his skin will also not turn red as a direct result of using magic. It will turn his clothing spotted, because if he's in a hurry to refuel, he's going to get cranberry juice all over himself.
But the part about becoming depressed is true. And aside from two minor details, it's basically the same.
Prompt: Ocean
POV Character: Jack
Date: Summer, year 363
Summary: Class clash
The Crow family owns a summer house on the beach. John plays there from morning to night, while his mother sits on the porch and reads detective novels.
One day, a man washes up on the beach, a man with a fan of horns on his head and a bony tail, gasping for breath.
'Boat sank,' the man croaks. 'Help.'
'Okay.' John scrambles back to the house. 'Mommy! There's a devil man on the beach! I think he swam here.'
Mrs. Crow screams. She rushes John into the house and makes frantic phone calls. John never sees the man again.
I am not happy with what the word limit did to #8.
POV Character: Alan
Date: Age 15
Summary: Alan in his cynical phase.
Humans are machines. I can see the dopamine rush when you take a bite of chocolate: a bright flare along y=x^(-1) in your brain, sending off purple shoots to connect to that memory of Valentine's Day chocolate from your boyfriend, subconsciously comparing the two tastes and finding this one lacking. You won't know why, but I can see the improper connections between purple and the electric green patterns of infatuation. Then you look at the candy wrapper, and the calorie count sets off a latticework of media images, past diets, friends' expectations. The purple dopamine equation dims. You're so predictable.
(This was a fun one to write. I interpreted the prompt all metaphorically, did you see that? Aren't I clever? :P)
Prompt: Part-Time Job
POV Character: Karthik
Date: Year 381
Summary: Karthik puts his powers to good use.
Karthik technically only works three-quarter time for QUARK, and a nice apartment in D'Sezan isn't cheap. This dilemma led him to one Ms. Julia Knight, of declining mental faculties. She has a small quest bedroom in which he resides when he's not sleeping in a loft at QUARK, and really, you get used to the cats after a while. Her shoes can tell him when she last went to the kitchen and ate; when she can't remember her wedding date, he can touch the dress and gently prod her in the right direction. Besides, she likes his Seeing Eye Parakeet.
Prompt: Sunburn
POV Character: Neil
Date: year 381
Summary: A metaphor.
Magic is like sunlight, Neil decides. He needs it, or else he becomes depressed and Vitamin D deficient; but if he stays exposed to it for too long, his skin turns red and blotchy.
Minus the Vitamin D deficiency, obviously. Magic doesn't do that.
And his skin will also not turn red as a direct result of using magic. It will turn his clothing spotted, because if he's in a hurry to refuel, he's going to get cranberry juice all over himself.
But the part about becoming depressed is true. And aside from two minor details, it's basically the same.
Prompt: Ocean
POV Character: Jack
Date: Summer, year 363
Summary: Class clash
The Crow family owns a summer house on the beach. John plays there from morning to night, while his mother sits on the porch and reads detective novels.
One day, a man washes up on the beach, a man with a fan of horns on his head and a bony tail, gasping for breath.
'Boat sank,' the man croaks. 'Help.'
'Okay.' John scrambles back to the house. 'Mommy! There's a devil man on the beach! I think he swam here.'
Mrs. Crow screams. She rushes John into the house and makes frantic phone calls. John never sees the man again.
I am not happy with what the word limit did to #8.
