This tag came from @tc-doherty, so thanks for including me in this game!
Passing this one along with soft tags to @regalserpent, @maddstermind, @whatsuptyler, @taveren-writing, @monstrousfreedom, and @erasde, as well as leaving an open tag. Rules—share six sentences of your WIP and tag six people
He waited until the plate was placed on the table, then pushed the door open and stepped inside.
“Hey guys,” he said. Then he killed the dealer.
The room erupted in chaos. The card game was forgotten. The panini was forgotten.
But during NaNo (guys i can't fucken type; eight typos in just those three starting words smh)
During NaNo! I finally settled on a placeholder title for my unnamed wip series! Admittedly, it is most likely gonna change when I've completed some edits and gotten some feedback these coming months, but finding a placeholder name means I've made a little progress on it, and that's exciting to me! I'm not gonna go through old posts and re-tag the relevant ones with it, as I'm not expecting this title to stick. I just wanted to share cuz I finally have a title for it! Even if temporary
Unnamed wip series is tentatively named Avalanche Archives!
(Avalanche is the dog and therefore the most important character, and Archives for alliteration lmao)
This tag came from @traveler-of-realms, so thanks for including me in this game!
Gonna pass it on with soft tags to @papercutsunset, @crypticcodexcreations, @andromedaexists, @oh-no-another-idea, @pandawriterstuff, @krokuswrites, and @briannaswords, as well as leaving an open tag. Rules—share seven snippets from your WIP/s and tag seven people
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One
Riley risked a glance under the truck to see that the men had split up. He could see three pair of boots moving into the street to circle around the truck while the other man kept Riley pinned down with constant gunfire. Not a good position to be trapped in. At least, not normally.
Dropping his backpack, he quickly reached inside and pulled out a small oval of dark green metal. The last one he had. He pulled the pin out, waited a second, and rolled it underneath the truck.
“Is that a fucking grenade?” one of the men asked just before it went off.
Two
Maybe...maybe he shouldn’t have let the men kidnap him.
Aaron sighed, the sound lost to the helicopter’s windstorm. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Three
“I don’t think we need to sit around for three days,” Riley had said. As much as Jimmy hated it—as much as he hated agreeing with anything Riley said—he couldn’t find anything to say as refute. One stretch of road work had somehow brought them to Oregon far ahead of their time schedule, and while Jimmy had been grateful they were saved more hours in the car, he began to wonder if sitting still for many hours and contending with Avalanche’s unending energy was preferable to admitting that Riley had a point.
It wasn’t that Riley was unintelligent. He was just very annoying. And any time Jimmy was forced to side with him never went unnoticed.
Four
Aaron had no idea how to respond to their story. They didn’t appear concerned by that, however, and he let them move on to a new topic as though the previous one hadn’t been a roller coaster in its own right. Meeting his mother’s eyes, he silently asked, I’m not the only one with vertigo, am I?
She hid her laugh well, and the brothers didn’t notice. No, you’re not. I honestly don’t know what else to expect from them at this point.
Five
“Awoo?” Avalanche asked, and Jimmy froze midway onto the chair.
“No, I wasn’t watching a...dirty video? Who told you I was watching porn?”
“Rawr-y.”
“Fuck you, Riley!”
Six
She threw herself from the steps into Aaron’s arms, her trust in him perhaps stronger than he was; if Riley hadn’t been there to steady him, they would’ve hit the ground with maybe enough force to lower Aaron’s mood.
“Awoo!” she cheered him.
Aaron grunted as he struggled to maintain his grip while shifting it to something more manageable. “Hey, sweetheart,” he said.
She chattered rapidly at him.
“Yeah, of course. You can have all the pinecones you want.”
“Awoo awoo awoooo!”
Laughing, he turned to Riley for some help and together, they lowered her to the ground. She gave them no assistance, and made no effort to get up, instead choosing to roll onto her back and wriggle her joy at all the pinecones she was going to make Jimmy bring home for her.
Seven
But then Jimmy had come back in, sleeplessness wearing away at his emotions. Turning his anger into sorrow. Bringing him back to apologize, to break down, to remind Riley that there was nothing he could do to help. And on a horrible level, Riley had resented him for it. Even as he’d held him, even as he’d gone downstairs with him, even as he’d stroked his hair until the medication finally put him to sleep, it had been there. Burning in his chest like an ember he couldn’t put out.
Because holding onto his anger gave more comfort than holding onto a stuffed leopard.
This tag came from @mariahwritesstuff, so thank you for including me in this game!
Gonna pass it on with soft tags to @pluttskutt, @andromedaexists, @crypticcodexcreations, @pixelw0rds, @oh-no-another-idea, and @pandawriterstuff, as well as leaving an open tag. Rules—Post a line that you're tremendously proud of writing and a line that’s just out-of-context ridiculous
Proud of—(mostly cuz context makes me emotional)
“Riley sent me,” he said.
Ridiculous—
Riley was watching him. “Skill issue,” he said. Then he took a step closer, his bloody knife ready for one last kill.
This tag came from @autumnalwalker, so thank you fo rincluding me in this game! (even if i took a while to reply...)
Passing this one on with soft tags to @hallwriteblr, @leebrontide, @verba-writing, @jessica-writes22, and @aether-wasteland-s, as well as leaving an open tag. Rules—share a song for each OC. Can be closely tied to the character or simply based off of vibes. Include some lyrics if you like!
Using the main cast from my unnamed wip (now tentatively titled Avalanche Archives)
Aaron—Bury You by Seven Spires (3:57)
And if we're done, I'll meet you there
Without a doubt, without a fear
I'll see you on the other side or in another life
Search within yourself and you'll find
That I too had never left
Danny—Heart of the Android by Orden Ogan (4:31)
Beneath a slave, my shell is all you see
My purpose in this world seems set
This is something you can never have
Linger in pain, lest we forget
Is that why you hate me?
Is there a heart inside the chest of the android?
What do you see, machine or man?
All that I am, all that I was, has been destroyed
Please let me hope and feel again
Riley—Distance by Evergrey (this is Riley and Luke, but strongly) (5:38)
It's lost, but we'll find it again
We must try, even if it's a distant future
It was all in our hands to the end
I just wish we had known so much sooner
It's not over
We'll soon be closer than before
Can't let this distance
Keep our destined souls apart
There's so much I would have shared if I could
But my reach was not getting through to you
So many times when I was misunderstood
I just wish we had spoken so much sooner
Jimmy—Dashboard by Modest Mouse (4:06)
Well, it would've been, could've been
Worse than you would ever know
Oh, the dashboard melted but we still have the radio
Oh, it should've been, could've been
Worse than you would ever know
Well, you told me about nowhere
Well, it sounds like someplace I'd like to go
This tag came from @autumnalwalker and @k--havok, so thank you both for including me in this game!
Gonna pass this along with soft tags to @shellyscribbles, @leebrontide, @zmwrites, and @winglesswriter, as well as leaving an open tag. Rules—just share your last line
A wave of gratitude came over him, and he let it carry over to Riley, who looked up at him and grinned.
Yeah, I know I’m a gift, he sent back.
Aaron laughed out loud. Indeed, it had been a good day. All it needed was a good ending and it would be a perfect day.
This tag came from @smol-feralgremlin and @sleepyowlwrites, so thank you both for including me in this game!
Passing it on with soft tags to @ravonosify, @dontjudgemeimawriter, @winglesswriter, and @shellyscribbles, as well as leaving an open tag. Rules—just share your last line
Jimmy snorted. “Dude, I’ve been kicking Riley’s ass all evening in these games. How could I not be having fun?”
“Chess?” was all Riley said.
Jimmy picked up a handful of fake money and threw it at him. “I hate you. I hate that game. It’s stupid. It sucks. It doesn’t exist. You don’t exist.”
