StillStunned
Mr Sticky
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The Plot Bunny visited me during my afternoon nap. Nearly 1k words into a story about two people sharing a bunk on a space-going battleship, intimate but never meeting:
One shipday, after five weeks of us sharing our pod, living parallel lives, I returned from my shift. Her scent was there, waiting to embrace me and welcome me back. I stepped inside and stopped. Something was different.
It took me a moment to spot. Markings on the locker by the door, only missed at first because my eyes weren’t focused there. At head-height, impossible to miss. Meant to be seen.
Meant to be read, in fact, I realised on closer inspection. It was a message, written in a clumsy scrawl using pencil – one of the few seemingly endless pieces of equipment on board – and consisting of only a few lines.
Hook by foot end broken. Sharp edge, be careful. Sorry.
One shipday, after five weeks of us sharing our pod, living parallel lives, I returned from my shift. Her scent was there, waiting to embrace me and welcome me back. I stepped inside and stopped. Something was different.
It took me a moment to spot. Markings on the locker by the door, only missed at first because my eyes weren’t focused there. At head-height, impossible to miss. Meant to be seen.
Meant to be read, in fact, I realised on closer inspection. It was a message, written in a clumsy scrawl using pencil – one of the few seemingly endless pieces of equipment on board – and consisting of only a few lines.
Hook by foot end broken. Sharp edge, be careful. Sorry.