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“Hey, you alive over there?”
“Dunno. Too dark to see.”
“Ha, ha.”
“Nothing broken. No thanks to you. Told you he’d have traps.”
“Shuddup, will ya? Your yapping’s gonna bring the guards.”
“Stones, I’m really gonna kill you this time.”
“First, we get out. Then we decide who’s killing who.”
Word count: 50. Written for Sammi Cox’s Month of Mini Writing Challenges. This is for Day 25 – “Tell a story only using dialogue in less than 50 words.” I haven’t been able to do nearly as many of them as I was hoping, so I’m glad to get at least one more in before the end of the month.
Sammi was pointing out how tricky it is to write a story with only dialogue, and I agree — but that just makes the challenge more fun. One of my all-time favorite stories that I wrote has nothing but dialogue between two people. Check it out: Burning Questions.
I should probably clarify that “Stones!” is a curse in Pyann/Medowin, not the other guy’s name.
Ooo, this is so good! Great use of dialogue, Joy! And the last line is just so sensible it made me smile 🙂
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Thanks Sammi! Yeah, the guy’s got his priorities. I get the feeling they’ve threatened to kill each other before, no?
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It does sound like it 🙂
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Hope they get out!
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Thanks for reading Amanda! Yeah, it sounds like they’ve gotten themselves out of bad scrapes before, probably this one they have a good shot at too…
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I would almost be content if you had left it after the second line. But maybe that would be just too humorous.
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I’m glad you found it funny, thanks! It’s so hard to write humor, I find. I don’t think I’ve ever succeeded in doing it deliberately. Sometimes it just comes out by accident, and the best I can do is try not to mess it up too much.
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I like to use humour to lighten heavy exposition, yet I don’t purposely write it. As you say, it just happens. I do occasionally find myself in peels of laughter at something one of my characters has said.
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Mine sometimes surprise me by being funny too. 🙂
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