I love Saturdays! Don’t you? 🙂

What follows is a snippet from a work in progress, tentatively titled “Hate to Love you.” Sybren is tired and annoyed, and Rio isn’t making things easier.

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For all that he was brilliant, Rio, my regional manager, was also an arrogant fuckwit with perfect teeth and a Napoleon complex.

He was grinning at me on a Saturday evening after the coffee shop had closed. I reeked of spilled liquids and numerous lattes, and was drooping fast. Yet the asshole was still sitting here, smiling at me while fresh as a daisy in his freakishly well-starched white shirt, expensive suit, and subdued tie.

“Didn’t take your vitamins this morning, Sybil?”

“It’s Sybren, and I would thank you to remember it,” I said, growling and snappish and ready for my bed.

“I know, my dear, but it’s the only way I could think of the help you keep your eyes open. It worked, didn’t it?”

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Welcome, dear readers! I’m doing CampNano this month with the hope of getting some stories done, at last. 🙂

Here’s another snippet from my work in progress tentatively titled, The Artist’s Mechanic. Background – Dolan is the art teacher of a drawing class where Logan is posing (his baby brother blackmailed him) as a model. The students are mostly over sixty years old, and, er, a little too friendly. Longer than six sentences for context.

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Dolan’s eyes widened with pleasure when he recognized me. Grinning, he said, “Logan! I didn’t realize you worked here, man.”

I shrugged, feeling a little off-kilter. “So you need new spark plugs?”

Dolan nodded and handed over the keys. “And could you check the air filter and give me new windshield wipers, too?”

“Sure thing.” I walked around his car. He drove an older model Toyota that looked to be in good shape.

“You were a big hit with the students yesterday, by the way,” Dolan said, grinning as he stepped out of my way. “They can’t stop talking about your, um, attributes.”

“As long as none of them ask me out for a date to investigate my attributes, I’m cool,” I said with a grunt.

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Happy Saturday. I am tired and looking forward to naps today. Hope all is well with you. 🙂

Here’s a snippet from a work in progress called “The Artist’s Mechanic.” Forgive any typos, etc.

Brothers. Gotta love ’em.

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My baby brother tricked me.

Okay, so it wasn’t quite a trick, but, he’d somehow shifted his piss poor efforts at getting better grades into, “oh, well you never finished high school so why should I?” after which I reminded him that I got my diploma last year. And then he said, “Well why can’t I do the same thing?” And I retorted, “Because you can do better than that. I want you to have a chance at something good, not become a grease monkey like me.”

After that, he’d crossed his arms, narrowed his too-sharp brown eyes and told me I’d have to do something really big and outside my comfort zone for him to agree, something I’d never do in a million years, just to prove that I was serious about him finishing school. Naturally, he came up with the most embarrassing thing possible—being a nude model for his best friend’s brother’s drawing class for the rest of the summer.

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