ficlet collection (i)
► Write ten lines of dialogue between two characters who had drunken sex last night and are not talking about it. Ever.
pg - 13 | jonghyun/iu | 77w
“Coffee?”
“Tea.”
“What? Why?”
“Tea’s healthy. Coffee isn’t.”
“Oh sure. Like a bunch of herbal leaves are going to help you keep up your energy for the day.”
“Hey, there are proven health benefits for tea!”
“… Whatever. You know what, this is so not worth quarreling over.”
“Fine. Where’s my shirt?”
“Your - Oh. It’s… ah. Behind the doorframe maybe.”
“Well. I’m not getting it. Not as if you haven’t seen all I have to offer anyway.”
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► Write a scene in four sentences in which two characters bond over something that would seem trivial to a passerby.
pg - 13 | changmin/yoona | 126w
Yoona goes about her morning activities in a flurry, racing to catch the bus that seems impossible, but she still tries anyway, because she can’t afford to be late to work for the third time in a row.
“Wait, please!”
The bus doesn’t wait, and she slumps onto the bench as the bus turns round the corner, her heart sinking with disappointment as she glances at her watch, breathlessly, until a man behind her taps her shoulder and asks, with a small smile on his face, “Missed the bus too?”
She looks up and into the stranger’s eyes, somewhat warm and inviting, which leads her to sigh while he takes a seat beside her, patting her shoulder good-naturedly, “Then I guess we have that in common.”
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► Write seven sentences from the perspective of a passerby witnessing DAY TWO's scene.
pg - 13 | sooyoung | 127w
This is the third time that girl has missed her bus in a row. Poor girl, it must be her first job. The male approaches her and taps her shoulder, and they exchange a few words, then he sits beside her and they start chatting. For a moment I wonder if he likes her or something, because even though he’s been observing her for the past two days, he hasn’t made a move till today.
When she laughs and looks at him, and he laughs too, I’m almost certain the two of them are going to miss their buses (again). I’m proven wrong when the bus arrives and he nudges her forward, the pair still conversing animatedly and passionately as they board the bus.
Ah, young love.
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► Write a character's reaction to someone's love confession in one sentence.
pg - 13 | myungsoo/krystal | 83w
“I knew you’d fall in love with me someday,” she grins, rolls her eyes and pulls him in close, her arms draping around his waist, and to be entirely honest she feels like she’s the luckiest person in the world because finally, finally he realizes how much she has always loved him, and how much she has always wanted more than the title of ‘best friends’, because sometimes, friendship just isn’t enough, and love… love is just friendship set on fire, isn’t it?
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► Write a scene in six sentences in which a character is searching for someone in the last moments of the end of the world.
pg - 13 | minho/jessica | 200w
They never told us the world would end. They promised us freedom, they promised us love, they promised us hope, they promised they promised they promised. Yet here I am searching and searching for Minho, not even knowing if he’s safe somewhere or out on the front line trying to defend a bunch of people who aren’t even worth his life because what have they done in their lives other than dictate ours?
Three words, one destination. I run and duck under the crumbling buildings, racing against time to find the one person in the world I trust and love and care for and can’t afford to not have by my side while taking my final breath.
The train station comes into view and my heart practically stops when the familiar figure steps forward and meets my eyes and reaches for me and pulls me into his arms and I feel the ground breaking, breaking, breaking beneath our feet but it doesn’t matter because he’s here with me and he’s still keeping me from the edge of insanity and as long as we’re together, he promised, I’ll be okay (because he keeps promises, and he’s the only one who does.)
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► Write a breakup scene in three sentences without giving the reason for it or using dialogue.
pg - 13 | zhou mi/victoria | 134w
Zhou Mi has to let go. He has to let go because Victoria has already moved on, because he understands from the way she lets go of his hand, the way she turns away, the way she walks off without a single second glance.
He has to let go because he has to prove to her that letting go just shows that he’s a strong person (like he always has been), and only when the door shuts then does he let the tears run down his cheeks, only when the salty water of his heart and soul touch the corner of his lip then does he wonder if Victoria is hurting as much as he is, if she’s ever loved him the way he loved her (or, actually, loves her, because he still does).
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► Write two characters' second kiss in two sentences.
pg - 13 | taemin/sulli | 122w
Sulli quietly turns on her heel, her long, flowing skirt flaring out as she does, gorgeous locks of chocolate brown hair flying in the breeze, and as she stands against the sunlight, Taemin is amazed, stunned for a moment, the breath knocked out of him.
His hand, by some mysterious, uncontrolled force, removes itself from his pockets, taking her wrists and pulling her close, feeling her body pressed up against his he takes a deep breath and crashes his lips onto hers for the second time, filled with longing and fuelled by a passion he doesn’t know can even be unleashed, but her eyes sweep over him calmly and when she kisses him back he knows that he’s done the right thing.