Robotech Christmas Double Drabble
This just kind of...popped out. Probably the result of listening to too much Christmas music at work. It came out almost on count, for once, took only a little tweaking.
Disclaimer: Robotech belongs to Harmony Gold. Just borrowing.
“O, Christmas tree, o Christmas tree, o Christmas tree o Christmas tree!” Claudia Hunter’s enthusiasm in no way made up for her lack of singing talent, as she bounced through the Hayes/Hunter quarters singing at the top of her six-year-old lungs. It was all Lisa could do not to cover her ears.
Henry, four years Claudia’s senior, looked at her and shook his head slowly. “You’re singing it wrong,” he said. “It’s ‘how lovely are your branches’.”
“You’re both wrong,” Roy, at twelve the oldest, interjected. Then he, too, began singing. “Oh Tom the toad, oh Toad, why are you lying in the road!” Henry joined him for the next line, which was a repeat of the first. And finally Claudia joined in. “Oh didn’t you see that truck ahead, now you are lying flat and dead!” And then, at the top of their lungs… “Oh Tom the toad, oh Tom the toad, why are you lying in the road?”
Lisa looked over at Rick, her lips twitching into an involuntary smile. “Are you sure you wouldn’t have rather married Minmei? At least they might have been able to carry a tune.”
“True,” Rick said. “But they wouldn’t be yours.”
In other words, I've got the first quarter and change of IPOADL plotted out, but the 3rd quarter is still completely blank. I know what I want to happen -- in general at least -- I'm just having trouble with specifics and logistics.
I've got a bunch of threads, I guess I'm just hesitating about the organization. Do I want to make each segment the tale of one "thread" or follow the threads side-by-side? (So to speak.) In mostly chronological order, I mean. *shrugs* I suck at plotting.
But yay me for a fic that didn't take hours and days and weeks and...just yay! Oh, and I did 753 words of original fic, too. Go me!
Disclaimer: Robotech belongs to Harmony Gold. Just borrowing.
“O, Christmas tree, o Christmas tree, o Christmas tree o Christmas tree!” Claudia Hunter’s enthusiasm in no way made up for her lack of singing talent, as she bounced through the Hayes/Hunter quarters singing at the top of her six-year-old lungs. It was all Lisa could do not to cover her ears.
Henry, four years Claudia’s senior, looked at her and shook his head slowly. “You’re singing it wrong,” he said. “It’s ‘how lovely are your branches’.”
“You’re both wrong,” Roy, at twelve the oldest, interjected. Then he, too, began singing. “Oh Tom the toad, oh Toad, why are you lying in the road!” Henry joined him for the next line, which was a repeat of the first. And finally Claudia joined in. “Oh didn’t you see that truck ahead, now you are lying flat and dead!” And then, at the top of their lungs… “Oh Tom the toad, oh Tom the toad, why are you lying in the road?”
Lisa looked over at Rick, her lips twitching into an involuntary smile. “Are you sure you wouldn’t have rather married Minmei? At least they might have been able to carry a tune.”
“True,” Rick said. “But they wouldn’t be yours.”
In other words, I've got the first quarter and change of IPOADL plotted out, but the 3rd quarter is still completely blank. I know what I want to happen -- in general at least -- I'm just having trouble with specifics and logistics.
I've got a bunch of threads, I guess I'm just hesitating about the organization. Do I want to make each segment the tale of one "thread" or follow the threads side-by-side? (So to speak.) In mostly chronological order, I mean. *shrugs* I suck at plotting.
But yay me for a fic that didn't take hours and days and weeks and...just yay! Oh, and I did 753 words of original fic, too. Go me!