Fill- Challenge 159 (DW)

[romanajo123]

 Trying to work on active voice so I rewatched the first bit of Gridlock and tried to novelize it. ) 

The screen buzzed into life as the enthusiastic anchorwoman began her report. 
"Salutations!" She said " This is Sally Calypso with the traffic news at 10: 15..." 

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" They're going to get us!" The older woman said frantically as their car bounced and shook around them "There's no stopping them!" 
 
"The police are on their way, I promise" Her husband replied, "I've sounded the alarm."  He picked up the transmitter, calling again. " Repeat- this is car 10hot5! We have a problem! Request urgent assistance!" 

" Thank you for your call" Came the automated reply "You have been placed on hold." 

"It's all your fault, you lied to the computer!" The woman accused, barely holding back tears as the car crashed back and forth more violently than before. " You said there were three of us! You told them three!" 

Her husband tried desperately to call the police again.  "Repeat- car 10hot5!  Help us!" He shouted, "I'm begging you ! Please help us!" His voice growing gradually more panicked. But it was too late. The car bucked and violently lurched,  with causing the lights to flash and a sea of sparks to erupt from the compartment,  the only other sound being a loud growling roar.  It was all over...

"Missing you already!" chirped Sally Calypso,  ending her broadcast as if nothing had happened at all. 

Fill: Challenge #159 (DW AU)

[shivver]

I've spent much of the last two, maybe three weeks editing and re-writing a Blue Rain fic that's been sitting in my WIP folder for years while I agonized over whether I should finish and post it, and I finally posted it yesterday. Here it is: "Genesis".

Challenge #160

[shivver]

Write a couple of paragraphs as if it was the opening to a novel, so that you're setting the scene. No dialogue - just begin to create the setting. It doesn't have to be pure static description - you could have a character doing things that reveal the setting. For example, "Clasping the collar of her coat closed in her fist, Mira laid her other hand on the dry bark of the leafless tree. The icy snow crunched beneath her boots." - this reveals it's outside and it's winter.

The catch is, don't use any direct words to name the place, time/season, etc. "Mira sat on her bed" is fine, "Mira sat in her bedroom" isn't. "The Doctor's shoe sank into inch-deep mud" is fine, "The Doctor stepped out onto the surface of Elpis III" isn't. The point is to reveal the setting through the descriptions and the characters' actions (if you include any characters).