diner

Westcity
larry as reply to Say a Word

Abraham Kim
coffee time diner
The windows were frosted. The cold came out of nowhere. Larry liked frosted glass. Not fog. The two had a similar opacifying effect, but the latter felt unhygenic while the former felt quaint.

Larry thought decades past when people would sit and talk for hours after eating their food. Laughter and...

Westcity
in the morning as reply to Interesting

Abraham Kim
Westcity Imogen Howe diner
When Alan awoke he could tell by the sound and air that he was alone. His mom was probably at her dance class. But Jack? He had no clue. Alan didn't think Jack would leave without saying goodbye. thus Alan could only assume that Jack went outside for a walk...

Westcity
what breed? as reply to See you Soon

Abraham Kim
diner dog
Maxxx was confused. Why would James send him that photo. Maxxx wasn't stupid. He didn't follow the news, but when three people died locally then you couldn't not hear about it. Especially when you worked at a  diner .

A lot of people talked here. Talked a lot. They wouldn't shut...

Westcity
jimmy does it again as reply to Gunna do now

Abraham Kim
diner cigarettes
After eating two pieces of stale toast each, the two of them casually suggested that a cigarette would be nice. Although neither wanted one. The entire time, Casey couldn't get food off his mind. Why wasn't Dick suggesting they go out to breakfast. He was a guest. Shouldn't he treat...

Go Back as reply to washing

Drew
diner
Love in some attempt to be normal, would try to keep a routine. He opened a small bank account here not to attract suspicion. If someone asked where he got the money he deposited enough every two weeks to look like he had a job. A painter he told them....

Westcity
woman found dead (2nd attempt) as reply to A few seconds

Abraham Kim
car Westcity diner
When you have a car that's old enough to have miles under it's belt, but not too old that the repairs are getting costly, it can be easy to think that that car can go on forever. Can be difficult to imagine that one day the  car will become un-drivable....

Westcity
open life in gas city as reply to Debbie

Abraham Kim
Gas City diner Spacecity
"Welcome to the  Gas City   diner !"

No one replied. The face in the reflecting glass stared back. Marianna pretended she was the waitress at the diner. She liked talking to herself like that. Pretend that she was at the diner. She would say it over and over again. "Welcome to...

Westcity
moving as reply to You Gotta See This

Abraham Kim
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"Why's this son of a gun drive all that way?"

"Mexican food."

"What?"

"Chipotle."

"Keith. You know that ain't damn Mexican food."

"Whatever. I don't care if  Chipotle is Mexican or not. Look at this."

"What am I looking at?"

Keith pointed to the bottom right corner of the dashboard and began to explain.

----

Dave never thought he'd...

Westcity
burning time to go to chipotle as reply to A Call

Abraham Kim
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Max Lambert hated eating at the diner after his shift. After sizzling bacon, frying toast, and wiping sweat dripping off his forehead so it didn't get into the customers' hash, the last thing he wanted at 7PM was to spend another minute at the diner. Even if the meal was...

Didn't Notice as reply to max enters the kitchen

Drew
diner
Marianna was in the parking lot of the  diner the next day. She got there around noon. She wanted to come earlier, but she felt it would be too weird. Rather to slip in while it was busy. The same Subaru was in the lot. This time it was parked...

Westcity
max enters the kitchen as reply to The Cook

Abraham Kim
Subaru diner
Max Lambert got to work at 12. His boss kept trying to pay him more to get in before the morning shift, but Max wanted to sleep in and putter around at home rather than use his mornings at work. Plus the other cook had the morning well covered. Dave....
Streetlights
I've never explicitly noted the colors of 
streetlights
like Jack, but I have had many inspirations because of different streetlight colors.

One of the snippets I shared in our old 
Writing Club
was inspired solely by the way the orange, tall street lights looked in one particular road connecting 
Lansing
and 
East Lansing
... I tried to create a scene where the college kids are heading back after a big meal at a 
diner
-- inspired by 
Fleetwood Diner
in Lansing -- where I wanted to recreate the emotion of having feelings while driving back under those orange lights in the middle of the night.

there's much variation possible there. It can be a drive alone, or a van packed with people. The music might be on... and if it is it can be any diffrernt type of tune... like wise if the music's off then the characters might be listening to something else. Their engine? their AC or the window is open and there is the sound of nature or urban ecology.

It's a scene I could write 1000s of snippets for 
Abraham Kim

Flash Fiction Practice
Greco in the Night II -- the diner

Abraham Kim
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It was late. The time a healthy person wouldn't eat. Let alone be awake. But he had slept all day and had nothing more than two slices of toast with peanut butter rubbed onto them. As soon as he stepped out into the thick summer air the scent of alcoholics'...

PO Box 915
it's friday as reply to Batman

Abraham Kim
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Charlotte hated when old friends reached out to her. They were all finishing up school and getting real jobs suddenly. Nobody seemed to be doing anything big for the past few years and all the sudden there was an explosion of 'good' news on Facebook .

What could she say about...

Jeannie Hammond
Anybody interesting has their String Story

Abraham Kim
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Lately I've been hearing a lot this quote from Sam Harris: you might have done something for the last time today. We go through our lives thinking we have endless horizons. That we will have yet another shot at everything. But this isn't true. Sometimes you tell a friend goodbye,...

Abe's Blog
One reason why i like writing about diners

Abraham Kim
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I remember once listening to someone talk about how New Yorkers talked. Apparently one of their primary forms of small talk consists of speaking about the subway. I was intrigued but confused. I asked how can you make small talk about the subway.

"Oh they just talk about which route they...
A break at the diner
haha I remember that. It was woman in a 
diner
 

by the way if you are writing about something you will reference a lot and want to be able to link back to it in the future you should try using the hotkey [[ 

just like you can @username you can use [[ to create a topic. You'll see that I have hotkeyd diner in this comment. 
Abraham Kim

Flash Fiction Practice
A break at the diner

Abraham Kim
diner resentment
"They had something come up."

"Mm."

"Friend situation."

"Oh no. That's too bad."

"I'm still hanging here. Alone. Got the whole day off."

"Not much has changed then."

"I thought today would be different. I was looking forward to today, Syd." he smiled.

"Well it's just another day, Val."

"I'm okay with that. I've come to enjoy routine."

Syd...