vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
brush

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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[marycatelli]

Only brushing their skin, no more was needed. She felt the honey-warm glow spreading. Autumn glanced at her wrists, as if startled how much the pain had been when it left, and smoothed out her face to a mask. Karlos let his breath out in a gust, and slumped in relief against Autumn. She put her arm about him.
Fortunately not the hand that Ciara had her hand on, because it was still needed. The visible wound was one thing, but her healing was not spreading deeply into Karlos's chest.
Her mouth set. Unwise to leave it alone, especially here.

[marycatelli]

"We must brush the hair perfectly first," said Molly. "Once we start to arrange it, it will be too late. More brushing will disturb the flowers and ribbons."
Rosaleen stood still. With the full, blue skirts about her, she scarcely dared look at Ellen to see if she were rebuked.

[marycatelli]

The roses were as brilliant as the sunset. Red and flaming orange and yellow. They had far more petals than wild ones, or the ones in the hedge, if not quite the same scent. The petals sometimes floated down when he brushed by.
A shadow fell over him. He looked.

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

The scrubby growth didn’t provide a whole lot of cover, but as long as Lisa stayed low, she could observe the comings and goings of the various customers of the shop without being noticed. Right now her biggest problem was the variety of insects that made these brambles their home.

[marycatelli]

The other sort of brush!

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

At least Soviet equipment used the same basic screw heads, so Lucius Belfontaine was able to get the motor torn down in a reasonable amount of time, using the familiar tools he'd brought with him from the American moonbase. It didn't take long to locate the problem.

"Either the Commies used substandard materials for the brushes in this thing, or the cosmonauts haven't been keeping up with their maintenance routines."

[marycatelli]

Embrace the power of AND

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

The lighter gravity of the Moon had all sorts of unexpected effects, and Shelly was still discovering some surprising ones. For instance, it was much easier to displace something by merely brushing against it. And given that pressurized volume was at a premium, everything up here was far tighter quarters than any terrestrial habitation save a submarine, so it was hard to avoid such mishaps by staying further away from things set on edges of countertops and the like.

[marycatelli]

Always complications.