Six Sentence Sunday

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

Here is another snippet from my first short story, Precious Treasures, published in 2009 by LASR

No whisper of a successor to her reign as his wife.  No surprise there.  Sarah knew his mother would persevere with her quest to see off any potential threats to her reign in her son’s home with the same speed and efficiently as she had been dispatched ten years ago.

Would she use the same lies? ‘Another man, Jason.’ Shock had rendered her speechless when her husband believed and accused her of his mother’s innuendoes.

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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)

From beneath her colour co-ordinated lashes she studied her ex husband; he’d broadened out and toughened up, money did that to a man. The sensual lips narrowed in a line of discontent, and his grey eyes resembled ash-covered ice chips, his bronzed skin had darkened from his sojourn in the tropics. Building exclusive resorts in exotic locations. She’d followed his meteoric rise to fame and fortune in the media, unable to avoid the zillions of pictures of him with a different woman welded to his arm each time. The coverage rose exponentially with his wealth.

Finally, she got real and stopped looking.

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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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As with my debut novel, The Brat, there were days while writing my current novel, Duty Calls, published by Black Opal Books,  I occasionally hit writer's block.  It didn't matter that the ideas filled my head, when I tried formulating these ideas on the page they evaporated like mist on a sunny day.  On this occasion days of frustration lead me to opening a blank document and just started writing.  I didn't pay attention to the content, the characters or the timeline, but at the end of a couple of hours I had the basis of a new venture and my first published short story.  I called this story Precious Treasures

Since the end of 2009 I have written several more short stories, seven of which have been succesfully published.  On that day my frustration gifted a new direction for my writing career. It also birthed the gift of confidence to try my hand at a 15k Valentine Cupid novella called The Wrong Target.

The comment 'write about what you know' is common, but there are some things you cannot 'know'. There are few people who have not heard of Stonehenge but few outside of Norfolk,UK and the archeologists involved, few have ever heard of Seahenge. 

Timber circle was gateway to the after-life . A circle of waterlogged wooden posts found on a remote beach in Norfolk, England, is transforming our knowledge of Bronze Age culture 4,000 years ago. 

 I watched the tv program about the removal of the henge - in the name of preservation, you understand - I also visited the reconstruction of the henge the Time Team archeologists built at a nearby site. Sadly the new henge has not fared as well as the original, but that's another story, which I may even have a shot at! LOL

The common denominator between the two henges is the power that eminated from them both when standing in their centre. It had me wondering about the people who built the original one, and the different climatic environment at the time. A couple of years ago I had a shot ot writing a story set around Seahenge. It hasn't seen the light of day yet, but who knows?

Over the centuries readers discover treasure of information and stories because authors of the day saw something special about their everyday environment and wrote about it. And now thanks to modern tecnology many of those ancient treasures are, once more, becoming available to todays' readers.

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All winners on the blog will be drawn and posted on 26th.

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