Lumivalko

The sun beat Grace's back, glueing dark strands escaped from her bun onto her nape. The coarse brush and soap left lighter swathes on the rug as she brushed it rigorously to get out a year's dust and grime, whatever remained after a thorough vacuum. Washing her rugs on a pier was her yearly routine, a habit picked up from her childhood home and something she'd stuck to. She missed the scent of the soap used in her childhood. Using a bucket, she rinsed off the rug until it was sopping wet again, then rolled it up to walk on the roll and squeeze out as much of the water as possible before repeating the process. She heard a cough and turned

This was not how you had wanted today to go. Your job was bad enough in and of itself, and now this. Customer service jobs, am I right? But this took the cake. This being a teenager waving a knife in your face. You'd like to tell yourself it didn't make adrenaline shoot through your veins and your fingers fumble. And then, before you managed to do anything whatsoever, the next person in the queue stepped up, grabbing the robber's hand before he had time to turn to tell them to back off, and just like that, the knife clattered to the counter. The robber, a kid really, crumbled into a snivelling heap holding his hand, and you stared stupidly

Preface The first thing a prospective reader-insert writer must consider is this: Do you want to write a reader-insert, or a fan character? If you actually want to write a fan character x canon character fic, go forth and do that! It's fun! I've definitely written my fair share of those. If you're lucky, you might even get other people into your ship. (Yes, I'm Just That Good.) No, you say, you want to write a reader-insert fic. But I'm a reader-insert fic connoisseur, and I won't take your word for it. I want you to really consider what you want to do, so I'll ask you a couple questions. 1) Do you want to describe the main character in