Overflowing Trash Can
For a school project. The only reason it's 200 words is because that was my limit. I easily could've wrote more or added more detail. Tell me if you wanna see a different version of this!
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Anne sat in her chair, using her colored pencils to draw a dragon. She knew she had to finish it by tomorrow, and it had to look good. She had to win that contest and show her sisters how good of an artist she was.
"Dang it, this isn't orange!" Anne yelled, realizing she just turned the fire green, "who made all of these pencils the same color?!" She crinkled the paper up and tossed it into her trash can.
"You can use my watercolors if you want," Her sister, Tay, stated, "They're color-coded."
"Thanks," Anne replied. She took the supplies and continued working. Of course, those weren't perfect, either.
On the first one, the watercolor bled through her paper. Garbage. Then her kitten, Nature, got paw prints all over it. Cute background idea, but garbage.
This went on for hours until she went to throw another attempt away; where the paint bled together and mixed. But, when she went to throw it in, it was thrown right back at her. She looked down to see that her trashcan was stuffed with crumpled up papers. If only she had tried to fix her mistakes instead of giving up on them...
Word Count: 200
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