Writing exercise

I am always looking for new and interesting free-writes, and I’ve taken to blog surfing lately. Sooner or later, the two things had to meet up. I was poking around today and came across this livejournal that has a weekly (I think?) challenge they call a “Ficlet,” where they give you a word and you spin it into a story in 15 minutes.

Here is a link to the blog:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/15minuteficlets/

So I thought I would give it a try.
By the way, I entered a writing contest with a similar topic, and for some reason, I can’t really get that out of my head. So I started out with a little brainstorm, then wrote this, which is completely unrelated because it doesn’t fit the “fiction” requirement:

Some days, you just gotta have it. Nothing you can do to control it, nothing you can do to change your mind or divert the course, you absolutely have to have chocolate.

So you get in your car (walking to the store for chocolate certainly seems counter-productive), you drive to the store, and you find that magic aisle, where they keep all of the sweet, sticky, chocolatey goodness.
For a moment, your heart catches in your chest, and it gets hard to breathe. What to choose, what to choose?

After several minutes of brainstorming, here is what I wrote based on today’s word...