If it's the 17th, that can only mean a WRITING CHALLENGE!

[in_the_blue]

Third month in a row. Ready, set, get out those pens and/or fingers to the keyboard...

Here's this month's loosely-defined DRABBLE challenge and the guidelines.

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Rules (remember, they're more like guidelines):

• Fandom: any, so long as it's one you know well.


• Word count: 300 or less


• Main theme: the concept of empty or emptiness.


• Ratings: No restrictions.


• Duration: Challenge opens today and closes at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, June 25. Just for fun.

Post your drabbles as comments to this entry. And yes, please comment on other peoples' work. Feedback is a reader's gift to a writer.

On your mark, get set... go.

Comments

[lvpd_sidle]

Title: Half-Full
Fandom: CSI
Character: Sara Sidle
Word Count: 169

The pessimist sees the glass as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Most of the time, the knowledge that her happiness would prove temporary stayed at the back of her mind.

In her relationships and habits, Sara always proved consistent. Though she was with Barry at the moment, she had still fallen for a man who would not be with her, in the long run.

Her work had been her pride. While at the lab, she had felt she was making a difference and bringing justice to those who would go beyond the law. But now she called two vigilantes her brothers and would remain silent beyond their deaths. It goes against everything she fought for her entire life.

But Barry has made her smile each day. Murphy and Connor have given her the family she never had. She would be left bereft when they left her, but could not quite bring herself to instigate the inevitable separations.

Once she asked Grissom if a murder gene could exist. She knew now that it did. Knowing such joy would eventually kill her.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

This is very cool in a chilling sort of way. I don't know CSI and I don't know Sara, but I've followed a lot of her stuff at M'ways. Having knowledge and paying later... that's a cruel concept, and you've stated it so succinctly here.

[lvpd_sidle]

Thanks!