Today's Quick Write Challenge!
Create the EXTERNAL CONFLICT. Choose one of the story excerpts and continue the story by adding an EXTERNAL CONFLICT.
Create the EXTERNAL CONFLICT. Choose one of the story excerpts and continue the story by adding an EXTERNAL CONFLICT.
OPTION ONE:
Excerpt from "Subject Seven"
THE QUIET OF THE compound was almost complete. Three in the morning was always a time of silence. Almost everyone had gone home, and even the few that were still working tended to keep to themselves and whisper when they spoke. There was something about Subject Seven that made them want to be quiet.
Down in his cage, Subject Seven lay curled in a tight ball, his body aching from the latest batch of tests.
His skin was growing back. He'd almost healed, and the pain had become manageable. That was good because he was finished with the compound, whether or not his keepers knew it.
Seven had learned something new, you see, something that changed everything about his world. He had learned about his Other...
OPTION TWO:
Excerpt taken from "Incarceron"
Finn had been flung on his face and chained to the stone slabs of the transitway.
His arms, spread wide, were weighted with links so heavy, he could barely drag his wrists off the ground. His ankles were tangled in a slithering mass of metal, bolted through a ring in the pavement. He couldn't raise his chest to get enough air. He lay exhausted, the stone icy against his cheek.
But the Civicry were coming at last.
He felt them before he heard them; vibrations in the ground, starting tiny and growing until they shivered in his teeth and nerves. Then noises in the darkness, the rumble of migration trucks, the slow hollow clang of wheel rims. Dragging his head around, he shook dirty hair out of his eyes and saw how the parallel grooves in the floor arrowed straight under his body. He was chained directly across the tracks...
