vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
witch

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term.

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[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

Shelly looked out at the flattish expanse of regolith stretching out to the foothills of the mountains that shaded the Soviet moonbase during lunar moring. "So we're going to be digging a trench about the length of a football field, laying a loop of pipe out to the end and back, then covering the whole thing."

Lucius gave her that maddening grin that always made her think of Alan Shepard at his most arrogant. "No worries. Back home in Maine, I spent summers running a Ditch Witch for my dad's trenching company, when I wasn't supervising one of his crews at a second site. Having to do it in a spacesuit will be harder, but I should be able to manage it."

[marycatelli]

Let's just hope it's not its nickname in hatred.

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

It's a brand name of trenchers and other pipe-laying equipment. Its founding predates the divergence between the Armstrong timeline and the Grissom timeline, so it's both here and there.

[marycatelli]

Strange name.