Impressions of Detail and New Questors

Reblogged post: Cohost Archiving, from Caffeinated Otter

I'm so glad these made it to a more permanent destination! Impressions of Detail in particular was really important to me actually starting to write for real, it means a lot to me (and there are so many prompts I want to use, still!)

Tags

I've used "Relia writes" for a while mostly to organize my own writing in a sea of tags, and I kind of like it. I got into the habit near the end of cohost of using "Relia doesn't write" for non-fiction pieces, but honestly it feels a little mean... I need to find a new tag for posts like this one.

Reprogrammed Summer Romance

A, who's kinda glad she's always had her childhood friend B to rely on and help her through the tough times, and who would do anything for her

B, who's known A for less than a week but had to do something to blend in and hide from the law, and now feels really bad about it

Jen sat on the cliff overlooking the town with her childhood friend, Scarlet, just like they had done every weekend of every summer throughout their lives. It definitely got better when they were old enough to buy their own ice pops, and even better when Scarlet got a fake ID and could buy beer earlier this summer. Jen couldn't enjoy them in quite the same way, lacking a digestive system, but she liked pressing the cold cans to her heat sinks and feeling the condensation drip down her artificial skin.

Jen snuck a look at Scarlet as she tipped back a can to catch the last dregs. Her dirty-blonde hair had been cut short just a few days ago, and it looked good. Better than just good. Scarlet put down the can, and Jen hurriedly looked away, her cooling vanes spreading out behind her in the setting sun. Why now? They'd known each other for more than a decade, they'd grown up together, she'd been there when Jen had figured out she liked girls, so why-

Why was it only now, less than a day before she was supposed to leave, that she'd caught feelings for her best friend?

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