Something I heard Jared Axelrod talk about in an I Should Be Writing interview: publish some kind of daily project. I do the Daily 5 thing, and some free writing, and every once in awhile if everything else is off my plate I pull out a short story — but I don’t put anything in front of you guys (both of you that are still here) with any regularity. My blocker on that is ideas. I’d love to post every day, but I can’t think of an idea worth sharing every day. More like every month, lately.

So Jared’s idea was just to take something, anything, you wrote today, pick out the best sentence or two, and throw it up there. It’s a nice compromise between posting a bunch of drivel every day and, well, never posting. So I think I’ll try that. Here’s one for today. It’s still early, so maybe this will be motivation to try and come up with something better later on.

(Bonus points if you can figure out who she is.)

Someone in a headset and clipboard was motioning at Tonya to come out to the counter. The gussied-up woman was waiting there, head tilted, studying her like a cat. “Good morning ma’am, can I get you something?”

The catlike expression vanished, replaced by a flash of annoyance and then a big, cartoonish expression of surprise. Tonya saw her glance at the nearest camera and understood. She’s playing for them. “My Dear Tonya Brown!” she pronounced. Tonya heard the capital letters.