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Gah. I need homework help. I'm enrolled in Short Story Writing and this week we need to do two creative exercises: write to two of four prompts, 300-500 words apiece. I have done one of the four and rejected one of the four as undoable. Here are the other two prompts:

Write a scene in which two characters are having a hard time talking to each other. Perhaps one person is trying to teach someone else how to do something, but it’s not going very well. Maybe one character has to convey some news that is hard to convey. Maybe your characters just find themselves at odds—one just got a raise, the other just got fired. Maybe they’re arguing, maybe they’re flirting. In any case, let them talk. Work to make each voice consistent and distinct.

Create a character with a very simple, very tangible desire (a glass of water, for example). Put this character in a scene in which there is some simple opposition, some simple thing that prevents him/her from obtaining his/her desire. See what happens.

I am drawing an utter blank on scenarios for either prompt. (Except the thing I have already written which involves a character swearing at the vending machine that is providing her with neither her soda nor her refund. But that ain't any three hundred words.)

Provide me with scenarios for these prompts, please. Things like "Val is flirting with Jane and Jane is oblivious". Original fic only, though if you want to say things like "Not!CharlieBradbury and Not!DorothyBaum are talking past each other in and about Not!Oz", I'm open to that. (Though it has been a long damn time since I consumed any iteration of Oz.)