Category — Memes
Second Guessing
Word of the Week: enchant
The tribal ritual had seemed enchanting when Bobby researched wedding ideas. Now doubts surfaced as they guided Mary to the fire’s edge. ~ 137
The brochure said, “Back to Basics a vacation you’ll never forget.” Scotty wondered if that had something to do with his expected life span. ~ 140 [Read more →]
April 23, 2012 5 Comments
Page’s Pointless Plunge
Word of the Week: bounce
When their high school class rings had bounced off the dock Page thought it would be easy to retrieve them. A quarter century later… ~ 135
She couldn’t remember the last time she stood on dry land. The feeling wasn’t all together pleasant, sea sick while standing still. ~ 132
April 2, 2012 6 Comments
Beyond
Once again, the “Dark Night” has come to the village of Durty. The doors are locked, the windows covered, the village gate barred and monitored by forty guards.
As she drifts off, Kierna wonders why they bother, it’s always the same. Every March 31 they locked down and every April 1 they awoke to find someone missing.
Last year Old Nellie had disappeared, and the year before that the Overseer’s son Caleb vanished from his bed. No one knew how the missing were chosen, where they went, or why.
Suddenly Kierna is awake in a long dark hall full of pulsing red lights and shifting shapes, whispers from the blackness beyond call out, begging her to join them. Turning in circles, Kierna can see her bed in one direction and blackness in the other.
Return home or venture into the unknown? Kierna stops turning and takes a step…
My blurb this week has 148 words.
Book Blurb Friday is hosted by Lisa Ricard Claro, who posts a weekly photo and challenges us to “write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book.” That’s quite a challenge, but it’s a lot of fun as well. Click on the image at the left to read more blurbs or enter one of your own.
March 30, 2012 7 Comments
Serendipity?
Word of the Week: serendipity
The Crime
A free meal had seemed serendipitous until the angry screams sent him scurrying. No doubt his raleigh attorneys 
would be calling tomorrow. ~ 139
The Time
Boris hadn’t realized time could pass so slowly, but the confines of his cell left him with little to do but contemplate his errant ways. ~ 137
March 12, 2012 12 Comments
Wardrobe Revolution
Word of the Week: revolution
Surrounded Midge paused to plot her next move, first place in line the first round prize, the masses her hurdles. ~ 113
Second round success found in the garb of a street urchin. Midge held first place in line for hours unchallenged. ~ 113
Patagonia women’s torrentshell jacket in hand Midge wondered how long her wardrobe revolution would take one piece at a time. ~ 125
February 20, 2012 14 Comments
The Carceral
All her life Maggie had lived in a three room suite of the old McMillian mansion with no view of the outside world, no real clue that another world existed other than the supplies that mysteriously appeared each morning in a cubby behind a small door.
February 3, 2012 5 Comments
