vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
shelter

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

Comments

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

How much longer would this solar storm continue? Already the storm shelter was feeling more crowded by the minute -- and you didn't get to become an astronaut if you couldn't handle tight quarters.

It would've helped if they hadn't needed to turn off all non-essential electronics. Ray understood the rationale -- it lowered both the risk of damage and the drain on the power systems. But it meant that they were stuck down here with nothing but each other's company to pass the time -- and as luck would have it, they didn't have a single decent storyteller among them.

[marycatelli]

Sometimes you have to have the most basic and ancient of skills.