Original Chromatic Drawing

by CrescentDreams

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Jesse took a deep breath, and adjusted the pencil just slightly. They were in perfect order now.

Her paper was square with the corners of her desk.

Her eraser had been kneaded and worked until it was pale again, a perfect sphere, in the top right corner of her desk.

And the sketch paper was still white and rough and pristine. Nothing was on it.

The dragon and clouds and castle were in her head, but to get them on the paper, she’d have to break all the perfect alignments.

Over.

And over.

And over.

She sighed. Sometimes, her compulsions really sucked.

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Average Reader Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5

  1. Original Chromatic Drawing

    ZorkFox's Buddy Icon ZorkFox

    Posted 6 months ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    It took me a minute to parse the OCD gag, but when I did it negated the only critique I was going to make. ;)

  2. Original Chromatic Drawing

    Mask By The Moon's Buddy Icon Mask By The Moon

    Posted 4 months ago

    OCD sucks. It just does. My friend has it and when she gets the compulsions it’s terrible. She won’t do anything because “it’s just not rightly done.” But yeah, OCD is a serious disease, I like the idea you had with the picture. YOu’re very creative.

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