For Life Out Here - LJI Episode 2

[banyangirl1832]

It’s funny, the things we think are important when we’re young. Good grades, beautiful place to live, a job that makes us happy. Fulfillment. I can’t remember the last time I felt fulfilled. I’ve spent more days just questing to get my belly full. Out here, it’s all skeleton trees and dead farm crops, scrabbling against folks just like you, with

Comments

[roina_arwen]

Very dark, but well written. I love the last line particularly.

[bleodswean]

Great job with really fast world-building!

[adoptedwriter]

Wow! The tension builds in this in a perfect way.

[beautyofgrey]

Ooh, nice drabble! I really like "a feather’s breath away from the abyss" - it feels like I lived there in my 20s, lol, though clearly this world is much leaner.

[viagra]

Wow, a lot packed into a small package. I liked this little snippet of something bigger; great take on this prompt and an interesting world being built here. :)