Day 10 - Singultus

Rating: PG
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 100
Summary: Funny what turns out to be shocking enough to scare away a hiccup.

“For God’s sake, will you just shut up!”  Alex snarled over his mountain of paperwork.

Day 9 - Votive

Rating: 15
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 100
Summary: Betting against Alex is usually futile...

I won the bet.

Day 8 - Ameslan

Rating: PG
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 99
Summary: To his horror, Milos's new class list has come through—which gives Alex an even greater variety of ways to insult him.

Milos gaped down at the paper left casually on his desk.  “More classes?”

Day 7 - Cacography

Rating: 18
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 100
Summary: Alex is testing Milos's handwriting in the best way he knows how.  Whether Milos agrees it's the best is another matter entirely...

“This is—ah—impossible!”

Day 6 - Fink

Rating: PG
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 100
Summary: Sometimes life would be easier if civilian law enforcement and Alex didn't have such major personality clashes...

“What part of ‘I’m a government agent’ don’t you understand?  Do you need to see my card again, or are you just terminally stupid?”

Day 5 - Serein

Rating: PG
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 100
Summary: Light drizzle has a different effect on each man.
Notes: Due to various things, such as birthdays and two-day weekends, this starts the backlog of unposted flash fics.

Light drizzle pattered over Milos’s skin.  To his right, Alex grimaced.

Day 4 - Philology

Rating: PG
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 100
Summary: It's an important day for Milos, but if he doesn't stop fidgeting Alex might just feed him that envelope.  But he can be supportive too... in his own way.

Milos fiddled with the envelope, folding its corners until Alex glowered at him.  “Either open it or put it away.”

Day 3 - Desiderium

Rating: PG
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 100
Summary: Alex is obsessive about keeping his files in order, but there's one he's willing to let slide.

Two office moves and the file was still in Milos’s drawer, not in the cabinet.

Day 2 - Brusque

Rating: 15
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 100
Summary: In most fighting partnerships, there's always one person who gets the crap kicked out of them on a regular basis.  Guess who it is in Milos and Alex's?  But Milos has his own ways of getting revenge, one way or the other...

The wall felt no better the third time Milos crashed into it than it had the first.  “Ah, f...”

A Challenge, And A Story - Cat's Paw

I've fallen out of the habit of writing recently, which means I've got a whole lot of no progress whatsoever going on.  So I've challenged myself to write a piece of flash fiction every day for a week, inspired by the Dictionary.com Word Of The Day.  This is basically the significantly less breakdown-inducing version of the original Pax's Ridiculous Writing Challenge.

Which should be interesting, if only for me.

Today it's from Unravel, a series of stories about Milos, a dokkalfa experimental bioweapon working for a shady semi-governmental body.  (You can find out more by visiting the "Unravel" tab up top there.)

Rating: G
Story: Radial: Unravel
Word Count: 100
Summary: A short exchange in the elevator does nothing for Milos and Marrok's relationship.

Lifts were awful enough, Milos decided, when they held just him. To be crammed into one with Marrok was plain torture, and his former boss clearly agreed.