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Date: 6 October 2020

Written For: Swinburne University (LIT10003 Reading and Writing Genre Texts)

Format: Writing Exercise

Genre: Romance, Fantasy

Word Count: 395

Author’s Note: From week 2 onwards in Reading and Writing Genre Texts, each week we were given a genre and a prompt and told to write 300 word stories and put them online on Canvas for discussion. Mine are speed drafts that I’ve touched up a little bit, so they’re less refined than they could have been, and most exceeded the word count. Because I’m a fantasy nerd, I combined the weekly genre with fantasy unless the genre was already fantastical or if fantasy was incompatible with the story I thought of.

For week 9, the genre was romance, and the prompt was “velvet”. For this story, I decided to continue on from Hot Leaf Dishwater. I had planned to add a bit more at the end of Lili running for a bit alone with Tarian and saying hello, then finding her girlfriend waiting for her when they all got back to the capital to lean into week 9 being romance week, but “This was home” felt like a really good stopping point and Home was already well over 300 words. Afterwards, I realised I could start from towards the end of this story and write up to where I’d originally planned to with some adjustments where necessary, but I found that I couldn’t go back and edit or delete my original post, so this one ended up staying as is.