chayscribbles:muddy roads and foxgloves ❃ a writing excerptthe opening scene from episode 2. i alrea
chayscribbles:muddy roads and foxgloves ❃ a writing excerptthe opening scene from episode 2. i already posted part of this in one of my nanowrimo writing update posts last month, but here’s the fuller scene.words: 376wip intro ❃ wip pagePetra’s hand lazily turned the dial on the car radio.The tape Valyan had supplied after supper had long finished playing, the music ending by the time the sun had set over the golden flat-topped buttes in the horizon that rose over the dusty plains of the South Agnesian desert before them. The travelers had only been in the desert for an hour or so, but they could already feel the difference—it was much warmer, although not so hot with night approaching, and if they breathed in too hard, the dry, dusty air tickled the back of their throats. The occasional howl of coyotes or whatever desert-dwelling creatures prowled the night pierced through the darkness and the static. Every once in a while, Petra would come upon the faintest signal and capture the fleeting ghosts of music, only for them to soon dissolve into a sea of white noise.In the backseat, Valyan whined, “Why don’t you just put in another one of my tapes?”“We’re stopping soon anyways,” Petra told them. “We should be arriving at a motel in about five minutes.” Keep reading -- source link