Drabble WriMo 27: Concentration

I think I just about managed to redirect this one to meet the prompt; as I'd feared, there aren't exactly many parts of that angst-filled interview to which 'concentration' as such is really relevant...

As she had suspected, Gaston would not hear of her humbling herself to the First Consul's wife. But sitting there in the narrow confines of his prison cell, every atom of her being focused on him, she became increasingly certain that he was evading her true concerns.

"If the plan for tomorrow should fail—" She brought the question back yet again, insistent. "Gaston, what is to happen? Will Bonaparte keep you imprisoned for years, perhaps?"

His hand tightened on hers in answer.

"The truth, Valentine, is that if I am not rescued, I shall undoubtedly be shot... as an— example."

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( Sourdough plum cake )

DrabbleWriMo 28: Leadership

The end of this series is going to be a bit disjointed, as the beginning was, because I'm just picking out elements to fit the prompts rather than trying to cover the entire plot.

Basically I could either have done a retelling of an existing work in drabbles *or* created a plot from a given series of arbitrary prompts (or just done a stand-alone drabble to match every prompt-word, of course; one of my 'fellow-competitors' has done what amounts to a shopping-list for both her last two entries, a list of ingredients and side-effects for 'medicine' followed by a list of her current tasks and distractions for 'concentration'!)

But trying to achieve both -- while using a book chosen pretty much at random and a prompt-list I hadn't even scanned in advance -- would be an impossible task. Just trying to fill the prompts in plot order so that they form some kind of coherent narrative is a ridiculously challenging extra commitment :-(

(Of course, I do have the advantage that I'm not actually bothering to make anything up :-p)

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