Orange 4, Lawn Green 5: Redeeming Qualities

[bookblather]

Title: Redeeming Qualities
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Orange 4 (orange county), lawn green 5 (day at the beach)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, seed beads (Rachel is Ivy's cousin), chalk (beach blanketed), glitter (Describe your first home that you can remember.).
Word Count: 100
Rating: G.
Summary: Rachel might have been lying when she said Orange County was irredeemable.
Warnings: none
Notes: none


Rachel might have been lying when she called Orange County irredeemable.

Not that she doesn't still hate most of it. The traffic, the smog, the residents, the impossibility of getting anything at a decent price, she hates all of that. But there is also the beach.

There is sand between her toes, gritty and cleansing, clinging to her floor mats for weeks. There is the rush of the ocean, wild and soothing, echoing in her dreams. There is the water cool on her ankles and wrists, the cries of seabirds, the scent of salt and brine.

Maybe it's not irredeemable.

Comments

[isana]

I like how clear Rachel's feelings come through in this--you can really hear that grudging "OK, it's not all bad," after she thinks about the beach. Good job!

[bookblather]

Thanks much! The beach redeems a lot of things for Rachel, I think.

[shipwreck_light]

And now.

NOW YOU ALMOST MADE ME MISS THE JOINT.

At least the beachglass.

*nostalgic sigh ensues*

[bookblather]

THERE ARE BEACHES ELSEWHERE. You don't need to subject yourself to Orange County!

...says the girl who's planning to move there once she gets her degree.

[auguris]

Sometimes that one thing can make everything else bearable. Nicely done.

[bookblather]

Truth, that. Thank you!