Status: Okay, so the whole 'get everything off my laptop' plan went to hell. The harddrive is messed up. All the chapters I'd written are gone. I don't think I'll delete ACA and I will probably continue it, but I can't say how long it will be before I do. I am considering redoing it completely.

A Cigarette Affair

Ruined.

And the smoke sketches poetry in her eyes.

Inhale, Exhale.

It scribes lyrical insults against the dewy softness of her skin, dissipating as the rain beings to fall.

Pippa curses, tries to shield the precious tobacco stick from the onslaught. Curses again as the drops hit their target. Too late. It‘s already ruined. She tosses it to the unforgiving ground and grinds the sole of her shoe into the dying ember.

Nothing left but ashes, now.