vignette

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
jewel

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

My effort:

In the open area, the lights, in all their colors, swarmed over the fog there, making the thing look like an opal.

An ugly, cut-rate opal, thought Tristan, bitterly. All cloudy and flawed. The sort of thing that was not set in jewelry but sold in loose handfuls as trinkets.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I can picture this fog, and despite Tristan's thought, it seems beautiful to me. Is the vignette attached to anything larger you're working on, or is it its own thing?


Here's one for you:

"For pennies on the dollar, you can rent a set of laughing-jewels, which will let you attend the gala flashing and sparkling as much as any of the glitterati. Your jewels will, of course, melt away with the first light of morning, but you'll have made your mark by then."