Ordinary Workday (part 1 of 1, complete)
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 620
:: LaQuinta Dixon is busy, working small hustles to get her life together, when Torrin calls to ask her to take a specific request for a ride in the Surrey bike that she is renting to own from Torrin. The day is off to an unusual start.::
:: Author’s note: This story arc is planned to post from 16 June to 10 August, for a total of 47 posts. (That will put the word count in the ballpark of 75K, easily). The story arc itself still needs a name, but it is set in the Polychrome Heroics universe, in Mercedes, during July of 2017::
LaQuinta Dixon looked away from the mirror as her fingers began braiding the last of the half dozen large box braids that kept her waist-length hair off her forehead and out of her way. Her phone chimed a reminder, and her fingers reacted out of habit. She moved faster, dipping her fingers in the shea butter for every third twist of the growing braid. Her gaze drifted to the clock held on the side of the cheap particleboard dresser with dots of maxitack.
Her fingers worked faster.
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