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I’m glad to be back after a long absence from W.W.W. More on that after the snippet. I’m offering an excerpt from my new WIP, Cruel Summer, which is a coming-of-age YA contemporary that takes place in Cincinnati.
In this snippet, Melissa approaches her dad in his study and asks why he’s not attending to Ashley, her younger sister who’s heartbroken after her boyfriend cheated on her. Dad doesn’t take kindly to being disturbed while working. Note that this is a different Melissa and Ashley, and not the ones from my other story; I just thought it would be nice to have my heroines with the same names – I dunno!
This is Melissa’s POV and creative punctuation has been used to meet the sentence limit:
Dad lifted his head up from his laptop amid his fingers clicking away happily on the keyboard. His glasses slid down to the tip of his nose as he greeted me with a lowered brow. I simply folded my arms and tapped my foot, letting him know I didn’t care if I was disturbing whatever he was working on.
“Are you, like, aware Ashley’s upstairs in tears?” I asked him.
“Are you, like, aware that I have a deadline to meet? Are you also aware I warned her about that witless impudent?”
I blinked at the annoyance shooting from his eyes into mine.
“Now I know you’re not down here to check on me, so out with it, young lady.”
You couldn’t fool my dad, he always had that weird ability to read people.
“I wanna borrow the car,” I said,”I wanna take Ashley out to Ariane’s for some waffles.”
Ariane’s is a fictitious diner in the story. The tension between Melissa and her dad is a subplot of the story, and it stems from the fact that Melissa wants to live her own life.
Blurb: When her younger sister starts dating a young man with a dark side, life turns upside down for Melissa. She’ll need the help from the last person she would go to – her ex-boyfriend.
Thoughts and feedback is much appreciated, keeping in mind this is a W.I.P.
So where the heck have I been? Sorry, I’ve been working two jobs since October and trying to keep up with my Rotary duties. Sadly, writing has also been on the back-burner. No matter, I’m just happy I’ve finally made some time to be with you all again. I’ll share another snippet from this story next week.
Thanks for visiting me today!
Frank
