Hello
fellow Warriors (and Snippeteers)! :-)
Weekend Writing
Warriors is a weekly bloghop. Each week, participants sign up HERE at
wewriwa.com, then post 8 to 10 sentences of
their work, published or unpublished, on their own blog to go live
before 9:00 AM Sunday EST. (We check signups to remove links when we
don't find a wewriwa post-- to save our participants from clicking on
empty links--so please have it live by 9:00 Sunday morning--eastern USA)
Then we visit each other and read, comment,
critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart
good. Snippet Sunday group from facebook--not us, but many of our participants
do both, can be found HERE.
This
week, I'm posting another snippet from Christmas romance a short story that was included in an anthology from Victory Tales Press: Let it Snow. I'll be excerpting from it for several weeks.
The set up:”
Raff, the MC, is doing a bit of reflecting about the farm he lives on--giving the reader a glimpse into his character. In this part of the story, the reader already knows that for the most part, Raff's grandparents raised him.
His grandma had left it to him. She
wrote it in her will that it had always been his grandfather's fondest wish,
that Raff would live on the farm and maybe even work the land.
He smiled at the thought. Him? A farmer?
It may have been in his genes, but he'd only barely taken it to heart. Though
that was sort of sad, the mere fact that the proverbial apple can fall far from
the tree was also sometimes a blessing. Considering his own parents, that had
been the case. The alcoholism that consumed their lives had not become his
destiny.
What works and what doesn't? Even though this one is done, I'm
grateful for every bit of feedback you share. It might help the next one. :-)
The blurb
Raff,
retired and alone, befriends Mandy-a single mother of two who lives
down the road from him. The young woman reminds him of Angie, His
high-school sweetheart and the only girl her ever loved. He and Angie
had planned to spend their lives together, but many years before, on the
Christmas they announced they were getting married, her father whisked
her away to find a good man, the "right" man.
Three
months before Christmas, when the rat-infested mobile home Mandy rents,
burns to the ground, he offers to let them stay with him in his big,
old farmhouse.
Their
short stay turns into a longer one, and Raff discovers that he likes
having children in the house, and he likes Mandy's company. She's alone
in the world, and he wants to help her and the kids get back on their
feet.
As
the holidays approach, while Mandy searches for her birth mother and
then has to choose whether to meet her or not, Raff is forced to face
his memories of the Christmas long ago when Angie broke it off with one
phone call, and then she moved away.
Is there still room in his heart for the one true miracle of Christmas… the miracle of love?
Let it Snow is available on Smashwords and on Amazon.
