In which I caution you against looking for answers in the wrong places…. Back in the mists of time, when I worked in an office–before remote working, before video conferencing—we worked together, but separately, each in our own little cubicles. From time to time we got up and wandered over to the coffee machine for …
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Oh goodness, I had quite a time trying to figure out how to work this prompt into my short. I had decided that I would link all of my May stories around a central cast of characters, and it seemed like my two MC’s would be role-playing during a D&D-esque campaign, but it turned into another type of story within a story because I quickly went down the rabbit hole of creating a gaming system instead of furthering the plot. So now one of my MC’s is attending a new writing seminar, and her bestie is her beta. The writer has a penchant for incorporating her friends into her tales, to the chagrin of her close readers, and so I think this sci-fi side romp will now be a recurring detour. They might still end up playing that campaign one day, though.
I love this!!