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[cosmolinguist]

An internet/Lib Dem friend of mine shared a Facebook meme that goes "Comment and I'll reply with how I'd introduce you in a novel" and he's just written theost wonderful reply to me:

"She sat with a half-smile and a glass of gin, listening to the conversation at the next table for a moment as associations from it - Sheffield steel, a missed bus ride, worlds outside worlds - registered and worked their way into place in her mind. A tablet computer in front of her, screen dull from a few moments' disuse, boldly showed a range of phonemes and letters, script by script.

A creaking door, and a familiar voice, and she moved her coat and cane aside for another figure to sit by her, and she was home. This was home - where she wanted it to be, where the people who were home were, where the things that fascinated her were. The tablet screen turned itself off altogether, and a second gin was shortly on the way."

Comments

[purplecat]

Ooh! That is lovely!

[ivy]

That is fantastic and evocative! Your friend is a good writer, and I would want to get to know that character.

[worlds_of_smoke]

♥!

[jesse_the_k]

Wonderful.

(And Facebook can be a platform for wonderful.)