38 Minutes Challenge, by MS

[ms-smooth.livejournal.com]

Title: (none)
Author: Ms. Smooth
Length: 96 words
Challenge: 38 Minutes (written in 23, actually)
Category: Gen
Rating: G
Summary: McKay introspective drabble

Notes: Drabble + words = less than 100. ^__^ No spoilers, no content.


On Earth, his calculations had come up with odds against his survival. Happiness was a dim prospect; even contentment was a goal too high for his analytical mind to believe in.

In the city of the Ancients, however, impossibilities are realized every day. He has proven himself wrong time and time again by doing that which he said couldn't be done, by succeeding in situations where once he would have given up.

A lifetime away, on a planet in another galaxy, Rodney McKay has fallen short and risen above every expectation he ever held for himself.

Comments

[neonhummingbird.livejournal.com]

I like this very much. Very to-the-point, and very Rodney. Nicely done.

[ms-smooth.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It was going to be longer, but I reached 300 odd words and realized I'd lost the point somewhere along the way. So I'm glad the cut and crop version turned out likeable.

[rokeon.livejournal.com]

no content

I think you're wrong there. Though everything else is right.

[ms-smooth.livejournal.com]

Hee. Summaries are my downfall, especially with drabbles. Thank you. ;)