Here it is, another edition of the prompt game!
The rules: I post the following dialogue, but without any context. Then youwrite a short story using the dialogue. When you’re finished, send it to me! Or post it on your Tumblr with the tag #andrezel and I’ll reblog it if it’s awesome. Last time we played, all of them were! Speaking of last time, I think we could have gotten more people to play if I’d given you more time. So, this time around, you have until Sunday, Sept. 23, at 9 PM CDT to submit your stories. Happy writing!
Character 1: Still out here?
Character 2: Just finishing now.
Character 1: That’s good. Time to wash up for dinner. They’ll be waiting.
Character 2: …
Character 1: It’ll be dark soon.
Character 2: There was a car earlier. Any news?
Character 1: No, not this afternoon.
Character 2: Not even a letter?
Character 1: Nothing. Maybe tomorrow.
Character 2: Hang tomorrow.
Character 1: Won’t you come in for dinner?
Character 2: Can’t.
Character 1: But the others…
Character 2: Hang the others!
Character 1: It’ll be dark soon. Please come inside.
Character 2: To do what? Put on my brave face? Drink what’s left of the wine? Make small talk like a child, speaking in riddles? To dance around the thing that no one will say—the one damn thing left still worth talking about?
Character 1: …
Character 2: No, I will not come inside. You say it’s getting dark. Do you think I can’t see it? That I can’t feel it under my skin? Yet you ask me to come in and smile, and be a devil. I say I won’t do it.
Character 1: Please don’t do anything stupid.
Character 2: Where are the things that I brought back last week?
Character 1: In the store room, on the bottom shelf.
Character 2: Bring me the sack. There’s a light in a case. And some batteries.
Character 1: Don’t do this. You can’t leave me here.
Character 2: …
Character 1: …
Character 2: Oh my dear. You’re right, of course I can’t.
Character 1: …
Character 2: I can’t leave you. Not here. Not when this is all that you’ve known. Not when you shrink from the cars on the drive and the shadows on the lawn and the shade of mortality you think walks two steps behind me. I can’t leave you in the dark.
Character 1: …
Character 2: I have to strike out in it: to bring back a little light to leave you when I’m gone.
Character 1: It’s getting dark.
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