Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we?

#253

Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds.

When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on their wrist. They instantly turn around and tell the lady walking behind them about their super-hot new colleague. WTF?

#254

Your story’s main character comes home from a long work stay abroad. The usually extremely reserved neighbor on the left waves at them and invites them for welcome-back coffee on their porch. Instead of a yellow dried-out lawn, the backyard is now a dazzling sea of colorful flowers. Asked about how their newly-developed green thumb, the neighbor smiles and explains the merits of biological fertilizers, versus chemical ones.

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