Happy Wednesday! First the big news: I just re-released my short story, Pink in the Mirror, which was formerly published with Torquere. If you like the 1950s, drag racing, and women who love women, you might enjoy it. Here’s my blog post about it with the fabulous (and very pink!) cover as well as all the purchase links.
Since today is International Women’s Day, I’m going to give one copy of Pink in the Mirror to a random commenter (comments left here and on other social media are all included). If you don’t want to be entered for that, just say so in your comment. If you do, then make sure I have a way to contact you if you win.
On to the WIPpet. I’m currently posting from my anthology-in-progress. These are all stories set in the same world as Cat, Micah, & co. They are not primarily romance, and not all of them are LGBTQIA-themed. I’m sticking with LR again this week. She’s emerged from her nap, but she’s not ready to talk about what’s on her mind yet. First, dinner with her family.
WIPmath: 3/8 = 3 + 8 = 11 paragraphs, mostly dialog.
LR crept out of her room. The headache wasn’t gone, but it was better than it had been. She descended the stairs and entered the kitchen. Cat had a paper in hand, and Dad was looking it over and humming, nodding his approval. Maybe a song Cat had written. Mom was heating something on the stove. All three looked up when LR cleared her throat.
“LR!” Mom exclaimed, leaving the pot on the stove and coming over. “I thought you were going away with friends.”
“I, uh, wasn’t feeling up to it.”
Mom put a hand on her forehead. “You’re awfully pale, but you don’t feel warm.”
LR sniffled for effect. “Maybe just a cold or something. I have a headache,” she added, hoping it would make her story more plausible.
Nodding, Mom said, “Better to get rest, then. It’s not a lot of fun to travel while sick, and you risk sharing germs.”
“Right.”
“You want something to eat? I’m heating up the leftover sausage soup from last night.”
LR’s stomach lurched at the thought of putting anything, especially spicy soup, in it. “No, thanks.”
She wanted to go back to bed. No one would have objected. But Cat was eying her, and not in a way that made her think he merely felt bad for her. His expression clearly said, we’ll talk later. She should have known she wouldn’t be able to keep anything from him.
Sliding into a seat at the table, she said, “I changed my mind. Soup sounds good.”
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Don’t think Cat’s going to let her get away with acting like everything’s fine. Still curious just what’s going on with her.
*hope this doesn’t come through twice. my computer was being screwy.
Only seems to be showing up once.
Cat won’t let her hide anything, but he also won’t let her go through it alone.
Happy National Women’s Day! Thanks for the snippet! Congrats on your re-release!
Thank you! 😀 I’m ridiculously excited about having my story out there again.
Sausage soup? This is a new thing to me! (And slightly weird from an English perspective.)
Soooo…LR. Hmm. She and Cat are more alike than I thought, which means he’s got a lot of catching up to do on the nagging sibling front. 🙂
Wait, really? Sausage soup (at least how we make it) is either like chicken soup but with something like Italian sausage or kielbasa cut up into it instead of chicken, and maybe with cabbage and/or turnips too. Or it has a tomato base, sort of like minestrone but without pasta in it and with sausage instead of lamb or beef. We add olives and peppers. So yummy, and only a little spicy (unless you add extra).
Those two are peas in a pod. LR’s going to get some big-brother advice and help. And maybe a tattoo.
Cat clearly cares about LR a lot, and while she seems eager to duck his help right not, I bet LR is very happy for his ‘interference’
Hooray for finally getting your story back and feeling ready to let it go again. ?
Their relationship may or may not be partly based on a real brother-sister duo that I know of. 😉
She’ll be very glad for his support once they get a chance to talk.
Their relationship feels very real to me, too, and in keeping with a certain brother/sister duo I know, too!
I have a feeling she’s going to regret the soup, but not so much that Cat’s on to her. And, may i say, I’m very happy that you offered us more Cat! =)