Happy Sunday! I’ve been doing my best impression of Sleeping Beauty all weekend. I may even take a nap today. 🙂 Hope you’ve been having a fun Saturday/Sunday.
Here’s a snippet from “To Lift My Sole”, published by JMS Books. It’s a little longer than six sentences, but it wouldn’t make much sense otherwise, I thought. Enjoy.
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“Well, hello there.” Did her voice just drop a few decibels? “I’m Paula, a friend of Jim’s. And this is my husband, Bevin.” She
reached out to shake Lance’s hand, and I stood by, like an idiot.
“Lance Lamas,” he replied. “I work, or rather worked, with Jim at the hospital. He’s mum about what he really does for a
living, but he says I’ll figure it out on Monday. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that, would you?”
“Sorry, no can do.” She removed imaginary lint from his shirt, but I knew she was surreptitiously copping a feel. It was
only flirting, I knew. She was madly in love with Bevin. Paula just liked to get a reaction out of me.
“Why so quiet, Jim?” Her expression was coy.
“I have no words for…whatever’s going on here.”
“Tell me something,” Lance asked after ordering a beer. “Is he always so…difficult to get to know? It’s like pulling teeth.
Though I have fun trying.”
I tried glaring at Paula, willing her by visual osmosis not to say anything. To no avail.
“Oh, he’s a sweetheart, usually. But this assignment has been particularly strenuous, and he hasn’t had sex in years so—”
I gasped in outrage. “Paula!” This amused Lance, and Bevin just shook his head and offered me silent sympathy.
“Looks like I turned up at the right time, then.”
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