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30 days of writing challenge: Using the prompts below, write a drabble ficlet a day for the next 30 days:beginning. accusation. restless. snowflake. haze. flame. formal. companion. move. silver. prepared. knowledge. denial. wind. order. thanks. look. summer. transformation. tremble. sunset. mad. thousand. outside. winter. diamond. letters. promise. simple. future.Crossposted from tumblr (at this tag). Chapter titles include the POV characters (and sometimes other important characters/ships). A lot of them are OCs from my Hunger Games fic, so those chapters may not make sense if you haven't read my other stuff.
Sara
April 20, 2025 at 03:27 AM
The first time Sara gets to leave District Six she feels like she could conquer the world. They’re in a slow, heavy cargo train hauling machinery to District Nine but she doesn’t care. Doesn’t care that everyone’s teasing her, that her bunk is a foot and a half from the ceiling because that’s the rookie spot, doesn’t care that she’s got graveyard shift unloading in Nine and she ought to be sleeping.
None of that matters, because as soon as they were clear of the boundary fence, Madi smiled at her and motioned out the back with a jerk of her head, and here they are, sitting up on the top of a boxcar watching the city disappear behind them, the rails gleaming silver in the sunlight.