anthrodisiac
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I dumped it into Plot Bunny Pens as a free-use bunbun. I'm excited to see what nonsense spawns from that.
Friday writing prompt: Please yourself
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liliput1
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Anthro was trying to pull the curve down to keep the rest of you out of trouble.Oh so @anthrodisiac was really just sucking up to the moderator with the hyper-minimalist response, then?
p.s. how long is too long? For a prompt response, I mean...
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Taking one for the team?
anthrodisiac
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I'm a team player. I'll gladly take one or moreTaking one for the team?
liliput1
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I haven't actually seen red since I was 17 but I felt like maybe I should be as Sarah dramatically glided out of the store, perhaps just a little faster than could be called 'dignified'.
Every once in a while I realize my people pleasing has tipped over into just being manipulated. It's never a pretty epiphany. It usually lands somewhere between an instant ick and discovering that the woman you're dating for three months has been seeing someone else the entire time. Today was a little bit more of the latter end of the spectrum. I don't remember exactly what I said but it was angry. And maybe a little mean. It was definitely final.
"Wow," Jane said, "almost nobody ever tells her 'no'".
After a very pregnant pause in which Jane was clearly measuring me for... something... perhaps a coffin, she started to follow Sarah out the door but looking and talking over her shoulder as she did so.
"Sarah's out of town this weekend but the rest of us are going to be down at the Reservoir on Friday night. You should come."
She did a little half-spin at the door to push it open with her hands and hips, so she can make eye contact and add,
"You should bring a suit... Or not."
And with a wink, she was gone. Leaving me standing in a store I hadn't wanted to come into in the first place.
Every once in a while I realize my people pleasing has tipped over into just being manipulated. It's never a pretty epiphany. It usually lands somewhere between an instant ick and discovering that the woman you're dating for three months has been seeing someone else the entire time. Today was a little bit more of the latter end of the spectrum. I don't remember exactly what I said but it was angry. And maybe a little mean. It was definitely final.
"Wow," Jane said, "almost nobody ever tells her 'no'".
After a very pregnant pause in which Jane was clearly measuring me for... something... perhaps a coffin, she started to follow Sarah out the door but looking and talking over her shoulder as she did so.
"Sarah's out of town this weekend but the rest of us are going to be down at the Reservoir on Friday night. You should come."
She did a little half-spin at the door to push it open with her hands and hips, so she can make eye contact and add,
"You should bring a suit... Or not."
And with a wink, she was gone. Leaving me standing in a store I hadn't wanted to come into in the first place.
liliput1
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War and Peace is over half a million words. Please don't [make it half a million words].
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anthrodisiac
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AStrangeDesire
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Do not collect $200, do not pass go, straight into the PBP!Taking one for the team?
