9 Months

For 9 months things had been great. But now Mel was in the birth canal. He faced the Delivery Room, Dr. Fromberg, the obstetrician, and then the whole extra-uterine frontier. He didn't like it. He dug in his heels and tried to crawl back.

But Dr. Fromberg didn't care. He’d dealt with problems like Mel before. When it came to pulling neonates into their so-called lives, he was prepared to do so. After all, he'd been yanked into his life 53 years before.

Yes, the first thing Mel did in this new frontier was cry… And could anyone blame him?

From Guest Contributor David Sydney

Squabbles

"It'll be easier if we just throw it away and start over."

"Let's not be too hasty. I think we can manage."

"Fine. Then you do it."

"Don't get mad. I'm just trying to help."

"You're not trying to help. You have to control everything I do. I'm sick of it."

"Look who's talking. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't even be in this situation in the first place."

"That's not fair. You were happy too. You just don't like the way I'm handling it."

"Everything would have been fine if we'd just hired the obstetrician like I wanted."The Daily Theme from Figment for February 1, 2012

Write an active scene entirely in dialogue. No quotation marks; no he said-she said; no description of action—just the words the characters say. Don't explicitly tell us what the activity is, but through your characters' dialogue, make it clear what they're doing.