The Rest of January

Here's the rest of the month of January! Let me tell you something, it feels great to have finished something, even if it's only part of a larger thing.

*A little side note...there is a somewhat mathematical equation in 1/30/10, but I can't figure out how to make superscript numbers, so e squared looks like e2.*


1/29/10

Prompt: “He stared long and hard at the wall, trying to remember just what it was he had been thinking about…” (NaNo)

He stared long and hard at the wall, trying to remember just what it was he had been thinking about. It was something important, he knew that, and he’d been thinking quite hard about it before he’d been distracted. He was sitting in his favorite chair, thinking about it, when the doorbell rang. He’d answered it, paid the paperboy, then he sat back down. That was when he’d forgotten what he’d been thinking about.

He furrowed his brow, focusing harder. What had it been? A sharp ringing sound distracted him momentarily.

“Hello?” he said, rather irritated, as he picked up the phone. He talked for a couple minutes—it was his boss, he couldn’t very well hang up on her—then he sat back down, trying to remember what he had been attempting to do before the phone had distracted him. It must have been something important.

Total Time: 4 minutes
Word Count: 147


1/30/10

Prompt: “The numbers began to repeat…” (NaNo)

He blinked and rubbed his eyes as the numbers began to repeat, blurring together on the page. He’d been staring at the same problem for at least an hour, trying in vain to solve the stupid thing. He sighed and looked away, trying to remember what his professor always said about difficult problems. Always go back to the basics. Don’t over think things.

He took a deep breath and looked at the problem, the directions, the equation, all of it. There, sitting right underneath the directions, was the key. X = e2.

Wow. That made things so much simpler. This was the last time he tried to do math homework at 1:00 in the morning. Definitely the last time.

Total Time: 3 minutes
Word Count: 119


1/31/10

Prompt: “…did you just call me a ho-bot?” (NaNo)

Model number F86 Day-Z turned her attention from the cute M38 walking by and looked at her friend.

“Did you just call me a ho-bot?” she asked incredulously.

Daf-0-DIL, Day-Z’s best bud, laughed hysterically, the sound coming out of her speakers like feedback on a singer’s mic. “yeah, yeah I did,” she managed to get out between bursts of static.

“Why?”

“Because you’re staring at that bot like he’s a can of oil and you’re looking to get greased! I swear Day-Z, you’re so desperate for a guy that you’re willing to swap parts with just about any model that walks by.”

The two laughed at Daf’s comment, and walked down the street towards their hovercar. Machines whizzed by, other robots on their way home from work, or maybe heading to dinner with a date. Such was life in the 36th century. Such was life.

Total Time: 4 minutes
Word Count: 145



Hope you enjoyed them!