The side-screen weather — a room for one change

Original flash fiction · Invented characters · Attention with edges

Theo wrote a sentence on the workshop board: “A weather tab keeps pulling attention away from a paragraph.” Nobody laughed. It was exactly the problem they had been avoiding.

A visitor added a suggestion beneath it: “Check the forecast once and close the tab until the paragraph is done.” Theo read it twice, then tried it on just one small part of the work.

The next morning the board was still untidy. One corner, however, showed an actual attempt instead of another promise.