4 September 2011

Six Sentence Sunday

As always, my thanks to all of you who stop by and read my efforts.  I always appreciate your company.

This week, I'm taking a break from offering snippets from my current novel, Duty Calls, available in paperback, ebook formats, kindle and nook. 

Instead here are the opening lines of my first short story, Precious Treasures, published in 2009 by LASR
(editied for SSS)

“Excuse me I’m looking for Sarah DeLacey.”

She didn’t need the touch of his fingers resting lightly on her shoulder, nor the sound of the gravelly voice to recognize the man standing behind her crouched frame. With a smile and word of assurance for the toddler grappling with his building blocks, she rose and turned.

Would he recognize her after all these years? Ten years had passed beneath the bridge called ‘Life’. Her hair no longer flowed down her back in a smooth black curtain, now it stood on end in carefully styled spikes of multi-hued blonde, her once make-up-free face was carefully masked beneath skillfully applied cosmetics.

“There’s no one here of that name.” She used her maiden name now.

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14 comments:

Lisa Fox said...

What a great opening! I know I want to read more.

sue said...

beautiful description - visual - and who might he be? thank you

Cate Masters said...

Intriguing! Is she in hiding, or did she just want a complete do-over? Definitely makes me want to read on.

J.A. Beard said...

Great description and great emotion. A lot of implied emotional history that draws me in.

Jenna said...

So much going on in just six sentences! Is she going to tell him who she is or not? Intreiguing six!

Zee Monodee said...

Tension, tension, tension!! What's he done to her, that she wishes he doesn't recognize her now?

Alix said...

Awesome six, wonderfully written.

Sherry Gloag said...

:-) Thank you Lisa, glad you liked it.

Sherry Gloag said...

Thanks for coming by Sue. I appreciate your comapny

Sherry Gloag said...

No, she' not hidig, Cate. Thanks for coming by.

Sherry Gloag said...

Thanks for your kind words, J.A. Beard

Sherry Gloag said...

Jenna, until I discovered SSS I didn't appreciate the power six sentences could have.

Sherry Gloag said...

LOL, Zee. He didn't get his priorities right.

Sherry Gloag said...

Thans, Alix, I appreciate your kind words.