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Writing Group / Re: Writing Prompts!
« on: December 20, 2010, 06:59:14 AM »
My little effort for Brandon's "dialog" challenge (and my first post). I threw it up on my blog, but I thought I'd post it here as well. I read a few of these and I can't wait to read the rest.
Lavender
By Erin Kelly
“Do you smell like lavender?”
“No. First off, perfume doesn’t work on inpenitrible skin, second using perfume when you might have to sneak into a criminal’s hideout is suicide. It’s worse than forgetting your mask. Everyone knows that.”
“I smell lavender. It’s coming from you.”
“I told you. I don’t--Oh F--- I use lavender detergent on my bed sheets.”
“Starting recently?”
“Always. I did a load yesterday.”
“And then rolled around in them before coming on stakeout?”
“I slept in my uniform last night.”
“On purpose?”
“Watkins does it.”
“Watkins arrested a pumpkin last week.”
“Oh yeah, well he also... made pies out of it.”
“Exactly. Someday soon we’ll be packing him off to an asylum with the rest of the crazies.”
“The pies were delicious.”
“Baking doesn’t require sanity.”
“Do you know why Watkins started sleeping in his uniform?”
“Because he’s a few tacos short of a combo platter."
“Maybe, but he says he sleeps better when he can be the Onyx Falcon for a few more hours before he has to spend the day as Gerald
Watkins.”
“There’s nothing wrong with being who you are.”
“Even when it gets in the way of who you’d rather be?”
“It’s the only way to do this thing.”
“Not if you join O.M.A.”
“O.M.A. can’t do stuff like this.”
“I’ve seen O.M.A. Soldiers on stakeouts and so have you.”
“Not on guys like Tiger Claw.”
“So, O.M.A. has bigger fish to fry.”
“No, O.M.A. has PR to worry about.”
“So they handle higher profile crime, they still get out there and do good works.”
“It’s doing good with an agenda, not because it’s the right thing to do.”
“Good is good.”
“We could take down as many drug dealers in a night as an entire OMA squad, but instead we’re here, where we’re actually needed, tracking down guys like Tiger Claw, guys only we can handle.”
“Does that mean we’re actually going in tonight?”
“There’s always a chance. Listen, if we have to sneak up on anyone you let me go first.”
“Like Hell I will. I’m invulnerable. I go first.”
“Less chance of them smelling you that way.”
“You are probably the only one who could smell me.”
“It’s raining, that makes you smell stronger and we’ve seen two new guys go into Tiger Claw’s hideout tonight. They could be capable of anything.”
“If they even have powers! This is not that type of gang. I don’t think Tiger Claw has anything besides the weird eye and the claws. No heightened senses, unlike someone I could mention.”
“He’s got a mean streak a mile wide and no compunctions about using those claws on this whole neighborhood. That’s enough to take him down before he gets established, so you stay behind me unless someone pulls a gun. Then you get in front and block those bullets.”
“You’re wearing kevlar.”
“Not on my face.”
“Fine.”
...
...
...
“Only you could smell a trace of lavender laundry detergent while sitting in a pile of trash.”
“You’d better hope so.”
Lavender
By Erin Kelly
“Do you smell like lavender?”
“No. First off, perfume doesn’t work on inpenitrible skin, second using perfume when you might have to sneak into a criminal’s hideout is suicide. It’s worse than forgetting your mask. Everyone knows that.”
“I smell lavender. It’s coming from you.”
“I told you. I don’t--Oh F--- I use lavender detergent on my bed sheets.”
“Starting recently?”
“Always. I did a load yesterday.”
“And then rolled around in them before coming on stakeout?”
“I slept in my uniform last night.”
“On purpose?”
“Watkins does it.”
“Watkins arrested a pumpkin last week.”
“Oh yeah, well he also... made pies out of it.”
“Exactly. Someday soon we’ll be packing him off to an asylum with the rest of the crazies.”
“The pies were delicious.”
“Baking doesn’t require sanity.”
“Do you know why Watkins started sleeping in his uniform?”
“Because he’s a few tacos short of a combo platter."
“Maybe, but he says he sleeps better when he can be the Onyx Falcon for a few more hours before he has to spend the day as Gerald
Watkins.”
“There’s nothing wrong with being who you are.”
“Even when it gets in the way of who you’d rather be?”
“It’s the only way to do this thing.”
“Not if you join O.M.A.”
“O.M.A. can’t do stuff like this.”
“I’ve seen O.M.A. Soldiers on stakeouts and so have you.”
“Not on guys like Tiger Claw.”
“So, O.M.A. has bigger fish to fry.”
“No, O.M.A. has PR to worry about.”
“So they handle higher profile crime, they still get out there and do good works.”
“It’s doing good with an agenda, not because it’s the right thing to do.”
“Good is good.”
“We could take down as many drug dealers in a night as an entire OMA squad, but instead we’re here, where we’re actually needed, tracking down guys like Tiger Claw, guys only we can handle.”
“Does that mean we’re actually going in tonight?”
“There’s always a chance. Listen, if we have to sneak up on anyone you let me go first.”
“Like Hell I will. I’m invulnerable. I go first.”
“Less chance of them smelling you that way.”
“You are probably the only one who could smell me.”
“It’s raining, that makes you smell stronger and we’ve seen two new guys go into Tiger Claw’s hideout tonight. They could be capable of anything.”
“If they even have powers! This is not that type of gang. I don’t think Tiger Claw has anything besides the weird eye and the claws. No heightened senses, unlike someone I could mention.”
“He’s got a mean streak a mile wide and no compunctions about using those claws on this whole neighborhood. That’s enough to take him down before he gets established, so you stay behind me unless someone pulls a gun. Then you get in front and block those bullets.”
“You’re wearing kevlar.”
“Not on my face.”
“Fine.”
...
...
...
“Only you could smell a trace of lavender laundry detergent while sitting in a pile of trash.”
“You’d better hope so.”