Tag: Snippets
by Author on April 13, 2017
*This snippet is straight out of my work in progress. It hasn’t been edited and may not look like this in the final book. But I thought it would be fun to share.
Something dark streaked out at her from between two homes. A large dog headed right for her. Rachel was already running at top speed and the dog was gaining on her. Speeding up to lose it was not an option.
She reached for her pistol and remembered she hadn’t wanted to bring it on her run. She cursed herself for a fool. Rachel slowed down so she could maneuver better to avoid the dog’s teeth.
But…
The dog slowed down too.
The dog was young, maybe a year old. The black and brown markings of a German Shepard had been what increased her breathing above its already heaving level. But this dog didn’t act like a military-train shepherd in attack mode. The oversized puppy keeping pace with Rachel had its tongue lolling out the side of its mouth, both ears flopped as it loped alongside her.
Rachel slowed to a stop. The dog stopped a few feet away and sat staring at Rachel. The thin, gangly pup had the most beautiful and un-nerving, bright blue eyes. Did pure-bred shepherd have blue eyes, she wondered.
The pup sat there with her tongue still hanging out of the side of her mouth and her tail kicking up the gravel from the road. One ear hung partially over her eye and the other ear lay across the top of her head. But it was those blue eyes that felt like they could look into her soul that had Rachel squatting down and holding her hand out.
“Hi, sweetie.”
The dog started forward then sat back down. She whined and shifted in place.
“What are you doing about at this hour, huh?” This time when Rachel spoke, the dog crept toward her in a slightly hunched stance.
She let Rachel scratch behind her floppy ears.
“You are a cutie. Yes, you are.”
The dog almost knocked Rachel over as it tried to crawl into Rachel’s lap.
After a few moments of staring into those beautiful blue eyes and rubbing behind the dog’s ears, Rachel stood up and scanned the nearby houses. None had lights on or any indication anyone was awake. In fact, most of the homes around her looked vacant. Like the homes of snowbirds who had already moved north.
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by Author on April 9, 2017
*This snippet is straight out of my work in progress. It hasn’t been edited and may not look like this in the final book. But I thought it would be fun to share.
Rachel inhaled and tasted the salt in the air. The sound of waves crashing on the shore reached her ears. She wasn’t in Chicago, anymore. There, the air would have tasted of car fumes and her ears would have been accosted by the latest gang favored music so loud it vibrated her sternum. Here, in this small coastal town, major gangs didn’t run rampant.
Rachel walked through the opening between two long buildings, past the unopened shops leading to the main boardwalk. The early morning sun bounced a golden light off the carved wooden signs above the shop windows on one side of the pedestrian walkway.
She followed the sidewalk to the break in the wall of shops. On the corner of the ally and main thoroughfare, Rachel walked past the old-fashioned candy shop with the taffy pulling equipment in the window, Crand’s Confection Emporium. In a few hours, when the shop opened, there would be brightly colored strings of candy looped and stretched on that machine beaconing kids of all ages to enter the shop. That same machine had beaconed her on a vacation or two as a child.
The main boardwalk was a wide expanse of concrete running a mile in either direction. As she stepped out from between the buildings, the sun came fully out from behind a cloud. Even her Oakleys had trouble filtering out that bright of a light. Rachel put her hand up to her forehead to shade her eyes and surveyed the beach.
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