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Six Sentence Sunday #16
Hope you are enjoying a beautiful Autumn Sunday!! I must say, this is my favorite time of year.
Last week Tori relinquished Janine’s keys to Otis and prepared to go into her mother’s house. I’ve had a few emails and comments concerned over Otis driving back into town. Hopefully, this snippet will reassure you that Otis is on top of everything in Starlight Cove.
The overnight bag was heavier now as she hefted it over her shoulder. She took a step toward mom’s home and then turned on her heel.
“Otis, it’s so dark out tonight.” Her heart pounded. She couldn’t leave him stranded. “How are you going to get back into town?”
“Satori, what has Seattle done to you? Don’t you know how a taxi service works?” he walked to her and held out his arm like Cary Grant.
“Of course I do…but…”
He pointed to the crowd inside her mother’s house, “When this is all over, those pretty ladies inside are going to need a ride into town.”
“Yes, yes they are.” A smile warmed her face as she looped her free arm through his.
“Good thing I’m here then isn’t it?” He winked.
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Six Sentence Sunday #15
Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday! Thanks so much for taking a few minutes of your day to visit and read my snippet from Starlight Cove. I appreciate your visit and every comment posted. Especially while I am in the intense editing stage at the moment…
Last week, Tori was thinking about what ‘family’ meant to her as she sat in the taxi with Otis.
The key slid easily from the ignition. Tori grasped it tight and smiled. Janine was her first taste of freedom, whether it was sneaking into the old drive-in out on Lakeshore Drive, or parking by the cove and watching the asteroid shower. Relinquishing the key to Otis revived those old memories. Happy memories of this place.
Tori caressed the steering wheel. Thanks sweet girl. She stepped out of the taxi and walked around to the trunk. Otis met her there and popped the trunk.
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Six Sentence Sunday #14
Sorry I’m posting this a few hours late. I was at Goat Fest. Yes, you read that correctly, Goat Fest. I had no idea what it was either. Yes, there were goats and live music and dancing children and food and friends and fun. Sounded like perfect Starlight Cove event, so I had to check it out!!!
Now for this weeks snippet. Otis and Tori are sitting in the taxi. Tori is apprehensive about going into the house and Otis just mentioned he considered her family.
Family. Tears welled in her eyes. Wasn’t family dependable? Like picking you up from dance rehearsals or attending the science fair. Mom never remembered. Tori wiped her eyes. If she was going to survive the chaos mom created tonight with yet another vanishing act, tears had to be vanquished.
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Maryellen
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Six Sentence Sunday #13
Hope you are enjoying an amazing holiday weekend. Sorry for my absence last week! I’m back this week to pick up where the story left off…Satori drove up to her mom’s home but couldn’t get out of Otis’s taxi.
Otis popped open the glove box and pulled out a box of playing cards. He shuffled the cards and dealt them into seven piles. Solitaire. The solid rhythm of him flipping cards by the dim dash light soothed Tori’s nerves.
“Otis, thank you…” She glanced at his calm profile in the dark. “…for bringing me up the hill.”
He continued to flip over the cards in neat piles, “That’s what family does Satori.”
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Six Sentence Sunday #12
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Last week, Satori reached the top of Main Street and the bike/tree. This week she finally arrives at her mom’s house…
Mom lived just out of town, literally over the river and through the woods, then up on the ridge top in the thick forest. The house had been in the family since Starlight Cove had been settled.
Even at nightfall, the house glowed as they approached it. Tori’s green gabled prison of nightmares. Mom’s house at last.
Moonlight filtered through the maple leaves casting ghostly shadows over the pathway to the front door. Tori sat back in the security of Janine’s leather seat. Her hand rested on the safety belt release. Why couldn’t she move?
Maryellen
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Friday Flash Fiction #7
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Look at the photo posted each Friday.
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Maryellen
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Six Sentence Sunday #11
I hope everyone is having an amazing weekend! Thanks for stopping by for another Six Sunday post.
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Last week Satori was driving through the woods at the end of Main Street to her mom’s house…
The top of Main Street circled around an ancient tree. A rusted bike frame was gobbled up by one of the oldest cedars in the forest about fifty years ago. Main Street circled round the bike/tree out of respect or perhaps out of fear. You never knew in this town.
Tori gripped the steering wheel and glimpsed over at Otis. He winked and it gave her the nudge she needed to continue. This was the last glimpse of civilization before she circled left toward mom’s house on Firefly Lane.
Maryellen
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Flash Fiction #6
The Guidelines Are Simple:
Look at the photo posted each Friday.
Remember this is flash fiction, so you just need to post a scene or a character sketch. If it grows into something larger, that is fantastic!
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* Art by Robert Montgomery. He is a London artist who hijacks advertising space intended for commuters who don’t know they are art. His texts are part poetry, part an inquiry into our collective unconscious.”
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