The Balance
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Touch the Pig - Update
TOUCH THE PIG is currently at 9400 words. Ran into Mallory's dad, again. He is being difficult. He has really gone downhill since I last saw him. I'm not sure if he would survive if Mallory were to leave him. And I think that she is already mentally packing her bags.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
Excerpt from HIDDEN MAGIC
After the meal, Alena and Perrin
stepped outside. The moon’s silvery orb
loomed close. It seemed as if one could
almost reach up and touch it. The
brilliant lady of the night sky both illuminated and cast ghostly shadows. They walked on the forest trail where they
had ridden only an hour earlier. Alena
could not remember when she had seen a night so brilliantly lit. Suddenly, she caught a fleeting glimpse of
movement--almost like shadow merging with shadow. She halted, grabbed Perrin’s arm and motioned
for silence.
Perrin looked where Alena pointed
but saw nothing. He waited, and then
decided that it was only the imagination of the young girl standing beside
him. He was about to continue walking
when he saw it, too. A shadow separated
from a clump of trees and then merged with more shadow. “What do you think it is?” he whispered.
Alena only shook her head. There was no doubt now that they had seen
something. Even though the night was
warm, she was covered with goose bumps.
She was almost certain that the shadow had been as large as a horse. Could they have just seen a unicorn?
They stood there silent for what
seemed an eternity. Alena finally
whispered, “I think it’s gone.”
Perrin nodded and whispered in
return, “I think so, too. We should
probably get back to the inn.”
When they turned to retrace their
steps, Alena gasped; Perrin froze in silence.
On the trail leading back to the inn stood an apparition. Silvery white was the ghostly stallion that
stood before them, almost within reach.
Even though they could view the trees and the trail through the silvery
vision, they instinctively knew that it was real. It was smaller than most horses Alena was
accustomed to, but if it had been a horse, it would have been the most
beautiful she had ever beheld. But a
horse it was not. In the center of its
forehead was a single white horn. Gazing
into the horn, Alena saw a night sky filled with stars--the most brilliant
stars she had ever seen. A tear escaped
from one eye of the beast and fell to the ground. It turned and galloped into the forest as
silent as mist.
Perrin was shaking as if he were
chilled to the very bone. Alena realized
that she was crying. She had been moved
to tears by the most beautiful creature she had ever seen. She placed her hand in Perrin’s and started
back toward the inn. “It was real wasn’t
it?” she asked.
“It was real,”
Perrin assured her. “I’ve never seen
anything so beautiful.”
Monday, October 14, 2013
Excerpt from A TIME FOR TEARS
Sarah Michaels was just
about to pour her first cup of coffee of the day when her phone rang. She ran into her bedroom to retrieve the
phone from her nightstand. The name on
the screen was Dave Stevens, her former boss.
Her first instinct was to ignore the call until after she had had her
coffee. But she knew that the persistent
bastard would keep dialing until she gave up and answered. So she hit the Talk button. “Morning, Dave. I haven’t had my coffee yet so this had
better be good.”
“Hello, Sarah. I need you to come down to the museum ASAP.”
“Dave, in case you have
forgotten, I don’t work for you anymore.
Plus you know that I don’t do ‘ASAP.’
And you know how irritable I can be before I’ve had my coffee.”
“Okay. Please come down to the museum right after
you’ve had your coffee. It’s an
emergency.”
“Dave, I’m retired. I’m sure that you don’t have any emergency
that you can’t handle without me.”
“Sarah, I wouldn’t have
bothered you if I thought anyone else could handle this. Please, Sarah.”
Monday, October 7, 2013
Excerpt from GRAVITY
My best friend was a physicist and I was
having an affair with his wife.
I had been friends with Steve since high
school. His interests had always turned
toward physics and mine toward building things.
It was a perfect combination; he would dream up strange little gadgets
and I would build them for him.
After high school, he moved to Atlanta to
attend University of Georgia (how ‘bout them dawgs!) while I stayed home and
went to work in a machine shop. Since
Atlanta was only about 70 miles away, I would still see him once or twice a
month when he would come up to visit his parents. We kept in close touch throughout his years
at the university. Between the beers we
drank and the gadgets he would have me build and the long talks about—well just
about everything, the subject of girls rarely came up.
I guess that’s why I was so surprised when
I first met Joanna.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Excerpt from KEEPING THE BALANCE:
Nurse Naughty
leaned over and whispered, her erotic breath brushing Walt’s ear, “No
bullshit. The three of us are D-E-A-D.”
Walt took a
big drink of the bourbon; the bottle was almost empty, now. “Okay, you win, you’ve scared me. Go ahead and have your laugh.”
Walt held the
near-empty bottle out for the doctor to take.
Dr. Good shook his head. “No, you
finish it. A little alcohol is good for
the soul. And it can’t do your body any
harm--that’s for sure,” he chuckled.
“But I don’t
feel dead,” Walt protested.
“Got ya!”
Walt clutched
his chest. “Thank God! I was actually beginning to believe that I was dead!”
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