Clare-Dragonfly

Title: Calling
Word count: 556
Rating: G
Prompt: inkstains: "love or duty"
Notes: This is another random story about one of the people who will theoretically be a main character in the actual robot rights world story. But then, I've been writing Wasteland stories for more than a year and haven't started the main story there, so this story may never come to development XD


“It’s my job,” said Dylan.

His mother sneered. “It’s not a job. It’s a damn hobby.”( Read more... )

Title: Awakening
Word count: 1,042
Rating: PG-13, I guess, for death
Prompt: inkstains contest 43: alone at the end
Notes: Depressing! Whee!


One morning Deri woke up and she wasn’t coughing anymore.

It was almost hard to believe. She pushed herself all the way upright—she’d been sitting half-up anyway, pillows and a blanket piled behind her, to help with her breathing during the night—and took a careful breath. Then she let it out. There was no tickle in her throat, her lungs didn’t spasm. She took a deeper one. She still didn’t cough.

A smile spread its way across her face, something she hadn’t thought she would feel for a long time, if ever. She must have beaten the illness. She’d been sick for weeks; she had, quite honestly, expected to die.( Read more... )