Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Random Ideas, Take 1

She had permanently pursed lips, her face frozen in a pout. She held her chin unnaturally high and the tip of her nose lifted, as if held by an invisible thread. Her cheeks were full and pink, and she often tugged at the waist of her skirt with her plump fingers, which somehow managed to always hike itself up above her bellybutton - a condition that she abhorred.
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There is something about palm trees that makes the sun feel less hot.

1 comment:

max said...

I love the details of what people do. It's hard for me not to focus entirely on a person's tics in a scene - I have to remember, no, force myself to advance the dialogue. The waitress dropping a pen thing in "Ostentation" came right out of an observation from our short story class!

Anyway, the details here were wonderful. Great job.